NRDC in the News 9/14: Electric vehicles, grizzlies, new LEED winner, and more...
Posted September 14, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
Simon Mui spoke to Reuters about what’s needed to pave the way for mass adoption of electric vehicles, including federal financial incentives, lower consumer costs and fewer infrastructure concerns… Henry Henderson explained to the Globe and Mail that “the closure of inefficient, old 19th-century [coal] technology actually opens the world for a new economy”… In a McClatchy Newspapers story, Bobby McEnaney explained that the Antiquities Act, which the federal government can use to declare public lands a national monument, has led to long term, positive outcomes for those areas…
In a Los Angeles Times article, David Pettit explained that real environmental progress has been made to the original plans to build an NFL stadium in the city… Also in the Los Angeles Times, Louisa Willcox weighed in on the increasing number of clashes between endangered grizzly bears and western communities, which often have a fatal result for the bears… In the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Thom Cmar took a consortium of Midwestern governors to task for a letter attempting to weaken protections for the Great Lakes…
The Sacramento Bee published an announcement of the recent LEED Gold status achieved by the Empire State Building, and cited NRDC’s Center for Market Innovation as contributing to this landmark achievement… Greenbuildingpro.com quoted Barbara Finamore about the financial tradeoffs of building “greener,” primarily higher initial costs offset by future energy costs…
