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US: We Need More Oil... to Export? (Maybe Someone Should Watch the Sustainability Ads on the Olympics)

US: We Need More Oil... to Export? (Maybe Someone Should Watch the Sustainability Ads on the Olympics)

In the HuffingtonPost Frances Beinecke eloquently responds to facts misrepresented by the Washington Post in a recent editorial on NRDC Action Fund’s “Snake Oil” Ad…An article in The Ledger, a local paper in Florida, strongly rebuffs the US government for exporting 300 million barrels of oil, while demanding more offshore oil leases; Jim Presswood is quoted…“Quest” on KQED (PBS affiliate) featured Senior Attorney Michael Wall in a 12-minute piece about the toxic “ghost fleet” litigation he is working on…

New York City Urban Program Director Eric Goldstein explains in NY Metro that regulations preventing stores from wasting energy to air condition city sidewalks will help lessen NYC’s summer energy demand while the fines help with public education…In an opinion piece highlighting the environmental failures of the bush administration (including recent efforts to gut the endangered species act) a US News and World Report blogger quotes NRDC on the attempts by the administration to rollback roadless rules…In the San Diego Union Tribune, Damon Nagami condemns the politicking that led to downplaying the significant environmental effects of the proposed San Onofre toll road in court documents; NRDC is challenging the Fish and Wildlife Service documents in court.

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