NRDC in the News 1/10: NRDC fracking expert credited, Northern Gateway pipeline, Sackett v EPA and more...
Posted January 10, 2012 in The Media and the Environment
The New York Times named Kate Sinding as one of two “widely regarded key players” in the fracking debate, crediting her with having “asked the right questions and provided the technical expertise that helped produce what has, in effect, been an almost four-year moratorium on new gas drilling in New York State.” Kate also was quoted on this issue by Legislativegazette.com… Reuters quoted Susan Casey-Lefkowitz about how the Canadian federal government is acting with the interest of big oil profits at heart related to the proposed Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline between Alberta and British Columbia... Susan also was quoted on this issue by The Hill, the Vancouver Sun, and UPI.com… Bloomberg cited the many reasons NRDC is against a proposed Northern Gateway pipeline through British Columbia… UPI.com also reported on NRDC’s involvement to stop this pipeline…
MSNBC.com spoke to Larry Levine about the politically polarizing Supreme Court case of the Sackett family’s lawsuit against the EPA over findings that their land contained environmentally sensitive wetlands; in the article Larry explains why these EPA findings are important tools to protect the environment from misuse… Larry was also quoted on this issue by Fox News, the International Business Times, USA Today, and others…
Josh Mogerman was interviewed by Northwest Indiana's Post-Tribune on the need to implement measures against invasive species in the Great Lakes in the near term, rather than the Army Corps’ more lackadaisical, wait-and-see approach… John Walke commented on the suspension of the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to Environmental-Finance.com, calling it “disappointing”… In E&E News, Jake Schmidt explained the motivations behind different countries’ willingness to pledge to cut emissions in international climate conferences, discussing Durban, Copenhagen and Kyoto… Discovery News reported on an NRDC finding that “runoff from chicken and hog waste in the mid-Atlantic led to a deadly algae outbreak that killed millions of fish and caused "skin irritation, short-term memory loss and other cognitive problems in local people"…
