Our biggest challenge is what kind of potential future we leave behind for our children. We can make our air and water cleaner than they are now, develop more sustainable economies and job opportunities, and greater global security. The same actions that create this future will protecting our earth's natural wonders and the environment that we all depend on.
Posted February 8, 2012 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment
// If you appreciate the air you breathe, you have an all new reason to be thankful. Every day, tens of millions of Americans benefit from the efforts...continued→
Posted January 24, 2012 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment
Late last year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated Clean Air Act safeguards to protect our children’s and families’ health from mercury and other dangerous air toxics from power plants. The move wouldn’t have been possible without the full...continued→
Posted January 13, 2012 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
As my colleagues Kim Knowlton and Meleah Geertsma wrote Wednesday, members of the public now have a powerful new tool to find out who are the biggest carbon polluters in their own backyards. We can find out far more than...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment
How out of touch can the WSJ ed. board be? See for yourself...According to the folks on the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the sky is falling now that the EPA has taken long overdue steps to clean up mercury...continued→
Posted December 20, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment
With the EPA poised to unveil a major new measure to protect kids and families from mercury, toxic and other pollution from power plants today (the Mercury and Air Toxics standard, or MATR), I'll blog on it throughout the day....continued→
Posted November 18, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
The US Environmental Protection Agency early next year will release proposed standards to update the Clean Air Act to protect public health from carbon dioxide pollution, EPA Chief Lisa Jackson told the news program energyNOW!. Taking steps to address the...continued→
Posted November 9, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
Remember how Pennsylvania Representative Tim Holden (PA-17) kept voting against clean air measures this year, and NRDC ran tv ads taking him to task for doing so? Recently, Holden's own constituents - including members of NRDC and Pennsylvania's Clean Air...continued→
Posted October 19, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
It was bad enough that Pennsylvania congressmen Tim Holden (PA-17) and Lou Barletta (PA-11) voted for a bill that the American Lung Association called “The single greatest roll-back of Clean Air Act protections in history." Now, they are misleading their...continued→
Posted October 14, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
Pennsylvania Congressman Lou Barletta (PA-11) has voted against clean and safe air four times this year, each time increasing the health risks to kids, who are among the most vulnerable to the effects of dangerous air pollution. There are 260,000...continued→
Posted October 14, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Holden (PA-17) has voted against clean and safe air four times this year, each time increasing the health risks to kids, who are among the most vulnerable to the effects of dangerous air pollution. There are 260,000...continued→
Posted October 13, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
When President Obama decided to block new public health standards for ozone and smog, NRDC was pretty disappointed. Turns out we weren’t the only ones. National and battleground state polling released today by NRDC, the League of Women Voters (LWV)...continued→
Posted October 12, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
Perhaps the most amazing thing about the recent attacks by some members of Congress on clean air is that they thought no one would notice … or care. Wrong! And Congressmen Lou Barletta (PA-11) and Tim Holden (PA-17) will be finding...continued→
Posted October 7, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
With backing from 12 members of Ohio’s congressional delegation, the US House yesterday approved a dangerous bill that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean-air safeguards to reduce toxic pollution from cement plants. Who loses? Fetuses, babies and young children. ...continued→
Posted October 7, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
With backing from 9 members of Michigan's congressional delegation, the US House yesterday approved a dangerous bill that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean-air safeguards to reduce toxic pollution from cement plants. Who loses? Fetuses, babies and young children. Who...continued→
Posted October 7, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
With backing from 14 members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation, the US House yesterday approved a dangerous bill that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean-air safeguards to reduce toxic pollution from cement plants. Who loses? Fetuses, babies and young children. ...continued→
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