Posted by Phil Gutis in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Late last month, we moved fast and became one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who trashed a clunker as part of the government's Cash for Clunkers program. Thanks to the government subsidy, we received more than $4,500 for...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
I am determined. Next winter, Tim and I will travel to Baja California and Laguna San Ignacio to witness for ourselves a ritual almost too impossible to believe: mother whales encouraging their newborns to interact with humans. NRDC preserved the...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Update, 11:31 eastern, from the NRDC News Release: More than 110,000 acres of Utah wilderness will be protected from oil and gas companies as a result of a ruling last night by Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the U.S. District...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Call me a masochist. I've been doing some reading of Jimmy Carter's speeches lately and I'm struck by two points: he called for all the right stuff when it came to energy policy, but, and most importantly, he fell completely...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I'm not much of a party guy so my husband, our laptops and assorted dogs spent last night sprawled around our family room watching the election returns. We'd often speak over the drone of the talking heads to blurt out...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Day two and the feeling of being dunked in oil hasn't lifted. In fact, given the financial news rocking Wall Street and the soaring price of oil futures, I'm left feeling greasier than ever. The latest reports from Washington find the...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
I woke up feeling more than a bit greasy this morning. It was almost as if I someone had snuck into my bedroom and dumped a barrel or two of oil on me. And my shower didn't help all that much....
Posted by Phil Gutis in Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
"Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms-length." So wrote the Inspector General of the Department of Interior today in an eye-popping report decrying "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" in the Bush Administration program charged with collecting...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Today's Guardian newspaper quotes NASA climate scientist James Hansen calling for the executives of large fossil-fuel companies to be put on trial for crimes against humanity. "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one [of]...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Public opinion research is part of my responsibilities at NRDC and its a piece of my job that I love. There's nothing quite like watching a group of folks from behind a one-way mirror talk about the issues that NRDC...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Couldn't resist this nugget from the front page of today's USA Today: "Speeders to Pay Extra for Police Fuel."According to the paper, the City Council of suburban Holly Springs, GA, decided to help cover the spiraling cost of gasoline by...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy
When you are deep in home renovation land, there are few places you visit more often than Home Depot and Lowes. Most weekends involve at least once visit and sometimes we actually end up going on both Saturday and Sunday.Yesterday,...
Posted by Phil Gutis in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
There's a saying in television journalism: if it bleeds, it leads. That's why whenever you switch over to the local news in your placid community, you could be forgiven for feeling as though you live in a level 10 crime...
