Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
This week, NRDC has been making the case that the Gulf Oil spill is a disaster that should shock the Congress into acting on a big scale to reform our energy system and get moving on clean energy and climate...
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
As oil gushed out of an underwater oil well ruptured by a deadly explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) published an essay on April 26 by AEI scholar Steven Hayward that called the environmental threats...
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 Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The American Clean Energy and Security Act will help spur $150 billion in clean energy investments, which will create 1.7 million good-paying jobs throughout the United States. Clean energy jobs are labor intensive, and clean energy investments create more jobs...
Posted by Pete Altman in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act allocates funding to produce the next generation of clean, fuel-efficient vehicles in the United States, and when combined with clean vehicle performance standards adopted by the Obama administration, the American on-road fleet...
Posted by Pete Altman in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
America's vets are raising their collective voices in support of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Pointing to the national security benefits of reducing America's reliance on dangerous foreign oil, VoteVets has been mobilizing its members in support of...
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 Moving Beyond Oil
How can we address the energy crisis, the economic crisis and the climate crisis in one swoop? By investing in clean energy, according to a new report by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The...
