NRDC in the News 11/8: Keystone XL protest, health costs of climate change, renewable power siting help and more...
Posted November 8, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
This weekend’s White House protest continues to make headlines. In an on-camera interview with CBS Evening News at the event, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz called tar sands oil “the dirtiest oil on the planet”… An ABC News Political Punch blog credited NRDC for organizing the protest, which was attended by 10,000 to 15,000 people… Susan also told Politico that the movement against tar sands oil “is a long term, deep-seated commitment for [environmental groups] as more tar sands and dirty fuel resources are being explored for extraction”… The protest received additional coverage in a Agence France-Presse piece that is being carried by Yahoo News, the Financial Times, Marketwatch, the Washington Examiner, the Calgary Herald, the National Post, People’sworld,org and more…
A Reuters piece on NRDC’s new report on the health costs of climate-related disasters quoted Kim Knowlton as saying that while researchers have tallied some costs of extreme weather in the past, "the health-care costs never end up on the tab." The article received wide pick-up, including on MSNBC.com, the Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, Mother Nature Network and others… Kim also spoke to the Huffington Post about the release of this ground breaking report, calling this “a problem with a human face"… The Los Angeles Times quoted Kim and her report co-authors as saying a better understanding of these health costs “could help prioritize preparedness efforts to reduce vulnerability, costs and losses"… The report was also covered by Fast Company, Mother Jones, Treehugger, Grist, Mother Nature Network, the International Business Times, Scientific American, the Daily Mail, Thinkprogress.org, the Press-Enterprise and more…
Matthew McKinzie explained to the San Francisco Chronicle that NRDC’s new GIS mapping tool, created in partnership with the DoD, will help renewable power developers find the most appropriate construction sites for new projects… The New York Times covered an agreement between city and state officials that NRDC helped solidify that would cut in half nitrogen discharges into New York City’s Jamaica Bay by 2020.
