Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution
Yesterday's news that clean energy and climate legislation moved out of the EPW committee was a welcome development. Even though a number of opponents of action decided to sit out the vote, there's plenty of support for moving a bill...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Duke University just released an analysis of the impact that ACES will have on global temperature, factoring in the impact that US leadership will have on the rest of the world. As many recognize, the only way to get serious...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Solving Global Warming
The US Chamber of Commerce has been drinking its own Kool-Aid again, and trying this time to get members of Congress to think it's green tea. The Chamber is attempting to convince policymakers that burdensome regulations are blocking clean energy...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
The clean energy money in the stimulus package is already putting people to work, or back to work, in the case of a window factory in western Pennsylvania. Six months ago, Kensington Windows shut its doors when its parent company...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Today NRDC is publishing new data on the contaminated coal waste that more than eighty proposed coal-fired power plants would create if built. We are also publishing data on waste from existing coal plants, including our estimates of the toxic...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
**Update** The Associated Press is reporting today that most of the slurry spill from the New Page plant hit the riverbank on the West Virginia side of the river, rather than entering the river directly. Bullet dodged? Perhaps, until the next really...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
There's some encouraging news this week that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) may swear off wet fly ash storage at coal-fired power plants, but who knows if we can trust them to do so when the heat is off months...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Solving Global Warming
As the New Year of 2009 dawns, the PR flacks charged with greenwashing coal's image must be praying for a fresh start. It's hard enough to fix up the image of the world's dirtiest energy source, without your clients finding...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
It is always a headache for corporate pr flacks when reality intrudes and negates months of planning and millions in spending trying to persuade the public of something that just isn't so. So the flacks at coal front-group ACCCE (pronounce...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
By now, you've probably read about Massey Energy CEO and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Director Don Blankenship's now infamous November 20, 2008 speech in West Virginia. Several people - including NRDC's own Frances Beinecke - have expressed their views about...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
All the coal money in the world can't cover up the fact that coal fired power plants are one of our dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources. Coal-fired power plants are the United States' single biggest pollution problem, the source of...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
Over the last several months, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been holding "State Climate Dialogues" out in the states, ostensibly to "stimulate a national discussion on key climate change issues." These are much more monologue than dialogue though, and...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
You can't miss the fact that both Time and Newsweek chose the week of the Presidential election to run pieces on how the economic downturn will affect efforts to solve global warming. Yes, most eyes are on the election through Tuesday night...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
One of the most bizarre arguments made by the "let's not solve global warming" crowd is that doing so will hurt the poor (about whom, mysteriously enough, these voices seem to remain pretty unconcerned when almost any other topic is on...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
America's overall economy may be stumbling today, but the emerging green economy here and abroad seems to be going great guns. Just look at the growing evidence: Earlier this month, I blogged about how 750,000 American workers are getting paychecks...
