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Natural Gas Drilling in NY, Improving Labeling of Light Bulb Efficiency, Cutting Ship Pollution, and Saving Wolves in Montana

November 2, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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capandtrade, cleanenergy, energyefficiency, lightbulbs, naturalgasny, renewables, shippollution, windturbines, wolves

In Crain's New York Business  Kate Sinding detailed some of the many environmental concerns related to drilling for natural gas near New York City's watershed... Noah Horowitz argued that light bulb efficiency labeling could be more detailed in a New...

Cutting Carbon Emissions, Banning Gas Drilling to Protect Public Health, Greening MLB, Growing Green Awards and Atrazine

October 30, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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algae, atrazine, biofuels, carboncaptureandstorage, climatechange, coal, growinggreenawards, MLB, naturalgasny

In an article about the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on coal and climate change, the Charleston Gazette quoted David Hawkins on the need for tough near-term emissions reductions that will encourage carbon capture and storage... Eric Goldstein...

Manganese Near Schools in Ohio, Protecting Water from Natural Gas Drilling, Promoting CFLs, and Protecting the San Joaquin River Delta

October 29, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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CFL, drinkingwater, manganese, naturalgas, sanjoaquinriverrestoration

In a USA Today article on high levels of manganese found near schools in Ohio and West Virginia, Gina Solomon explained the dangers of elementary students being exposed to the harmful chemical... A New York Times editorial stressed that New...

Global Warming, Air, and Water Pollution Limits Still Needed

October 27, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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chemicals, china, drinkingwater, gasdrilling, globalwarming, renewableenergy

In a Bloomberg News article Jake Schmidt posited that the lack of U.S. limits on global warming pollution may be part of the reason why China does not have specific goals either... In a Greenwire article carried by New York...

The Possibilities: Polar Bear Habitat, Clean Air, Electric Vehicles and Saving Paper

October 26, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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airpollution, greatlakes, paper, plugins, polarbears, powerplants, socal, water

This weekend, Andrew Wetzler spoke with Good Morning America about new government polar bear habitat protections.... In the Los Angeles Times (as well as the New York Times and United Press International) John Walke explained how new power plant rules...

Polar Bears, Green Jobs, and Clean Air and Energy....

October 23, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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AirPollution, Biofuel, GreenJobs, OilDrilling, PolarBears, Recycling, SoCal

Andrew Wetzler explained to the Los Angeles Times what proposed critical habitat designation for polar bears could mean for oil and gas drilling plans; Andrew was also quoted about the proposed habitat designations in many other outlets, including the Associated...

Protecting Beaufort Sea, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and San Joaquin Delta

October 20, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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arcticnationalwildliferefuge, beaufortsea, drilling, EPA, fishing, hexavalentchromium, nuclearwaste, oilrefineries, oilspill, salmon, waterpollution, whiting

In response to US Interior Department approval of Shell Oil's Beaufort Sea drilling plan, Chuck Clusen warned Wall Street Journal online readers that an oil spill could turn the waters off of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into an "ecological...

NYC Water, Energy Star Improvements, Rewarding Re-Use, Climate Bill, Endangered Sturgeon

October 19, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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appliances, atlanticsturgeon, caviar, climatebill, DOE, drilling, efficiency, endangeredspecies, energystar, EPA, naturalgas, plasticbags, watersupplies

Kate Sinding spoke with the New York Times in advance of an editorial urging caution and calling for more conservative natural gas drilling regulations to protect NYC's water supplies... Lane Burt explained what the EPA and the Energy Department are...

Efficiency is the Way to Go

October 16, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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acidtest, carboncaptureandstorage, Chamberofcommerce, China, climatebill, energyefficiencystandards, Greentechnology, oceanacidification, pluginhybrids, polarbears

On CNBC Noah Horowitz argued that new California TV efficiency regulations will still allow buyers to purchase any kind of TV they want, while still saving the State billions of dollars of energy costs... In a ClimateWire story in the...

Myriad Ways to Fight Climate Change

October 15, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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Alaska, algae, Beijing, biofuels, BristolBay, carboncapture, CCS, JesseYJoy, OndaVerde;climatechange, PebbleMine, U.S.Steel, wastewater

In popular Spanish language publication La Opinión Adrianna Quintero spoke about a Miami concert NRDC organized to launch the new Onda Verde climate campaign with musicians Jesse y Joy and emphasized the urgency of addressing climate change.  Numerous print, online,...

Wolves, mercury and climate change legislation

October 13, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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bananas, ChesapeakeBay, climatelegislation, energyconsumption, fluorescent, KerryGrahamoped, mercurycalculator, Montana, wolves

Dan Lashof noted in a ClimateWire article carried by the New York Times online that there is some ambiguity surrounding the accuracy of a recent EPA analysis on state energy consumption... In a Reuters article Dan Lashof discussed the importance...

Careful Where You Drill

October 9, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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DEC, departmentofinterior, drilling, drinkingwater, greenindiana, NYCwatershed, oilandgasleases, powerplants, uschamberofcommece

Amy Mall praised the Department of the Interior for freezing oil and gas leases for 60 contested Utah drilling sites in the New York Times... In a Greenwire article picked up by the New York Times Pete Altman emphasized that...

Less pollution, more energy

October 8, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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airpollution, chesapeakebay, energy, highspeedrail, indiana, pollution, transit, transportation, uschamberofcommerce, wolves

In the San Francisco Chronicle Pete Altman discussed how defections from the US Chamber of Commerce have eroded  the organization’s credibility… The Outpost blog in the LA Times reported on NRDC’s criticism of Montana’s backcountry wolf hunt, quoting Matt Skoglund...

Spotlight on Atrazine and other Pollutants

October 7, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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Atrazine, carbonemissions, CleanEnergyEconomyforIndiana, USChamberofCommerce

In the Associated Press Mae Wu expressed her hopes that a new EPA review of the health risks of atrazine would lead to more stringent regulations or market removal of the common weed-killer...On the front page of the business section...

Defections from Chamber due to Lack of Global Warming Policy Becoming Contagious

October 6, 2009

Posted by NRDC News in The Media and the Environment

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carboncaptureandstorage, CCS, globalwarming, GreenLA, nationalparkservice, Nationalparksinperil, uschamberofcommerce

David Pettit spoke about some of the successes of the Green LA project and explained why the program should be emulated elsewhere in the LA Times... The Christian Science Monitor, The Associated Press and more than 50 other print and...

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