NRDC in the News 5/1: John Bryson, China's future, "fracking," "The Last Mountain," and more...
Posted June 1, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
Media coverage continues for NRDC co-founder John Bryson as President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Commerce… The New York Times quoted Frances Beinecke on the nomination, saying “Mr. Bryson’s career underscores the strong linkage between economic and environmental progress”… Frances was also quoted in a second Bloomberg News article on the topic… The Associated Press reported on the nomination and Bryson’s links to NRDC; the piece was carried by dozens of outlets, including NPR, CBS News, ABC News, Businessweek, and MSNBC… Other outlets covering Bryson’s nomination and his role in the founding of NRDC include the Washington Post, the LA Times, Politico, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal…
Barbara Finamore penned an op-ed for China Daily about how far China has come on environmental issues in the last thirty years, and the direction it needs to go in the next thirty… An article written by NRDC staff attorney Wu Qi on environmental transparency in China ran in Green Leaf magazine, one of the official publications of the Ministry of Environmental Protection [attached, in Chinese]… The Hill’s E2 Wire blog reported on an upcoming Energy Department meeting to evaluate the safety of hydraulic fracking; NRDC staffers will be in attendance… The New York Observer covered a screening of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s film “The Last Mountain”-- which highlights the plight of a small town challenged with the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining…
