Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
The New York Times has revealed the results of an extensive study of Clean Water Act enforcement showing systemic breakdowns compliance and enforcement throughout the US, finding that as a result "An estimated one in 10 Americans have been exposed...continued→
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
So how much did opponents of the federal climate bill really spend in the run-up to the House vote last month? It is usually hard to tell, since the predominant reporting system is meant to capture only expenses incurred to directly...continued→
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
It was a surprise when Sarah Palin announced that she would step down as Governor of Alaska. But it isn't so surprising that America's biggest quitter doesn't think Americans are up to the challenge of creating a clean energy economy...continued→
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
Earlier this week, Senator Kit Bond of Missouri issued a "report" on green jobs, essentially an exercise in taking statements from various reports on green jobs out of context and ignoring what those reports actually have to say. The Senator's report...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
We were going to ignore the latest nonsense from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) until we saw this week's Bloomberg story: "Clean-Coal Debate Pits Al Gore's Group Against Obama, Peabody." In the article, Bloomberg cites a recent...continued→
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
In Washington, you can tell always tell how bad things are for a politician or an interest group when they feel the need to brag about getting any good media coverage. When it comes to big coal and the utilities...continued→
