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May 14, 2010
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- airpollution, cleanairact, climatelegislation, newsourcereview
There is much to commend in Senator Kerry’s and Senator Lieberman’s just-released comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, beginning with solid core carbon pollution limits. These emission limits tighten every year and will drive investments in clean energy that create...
October 27, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- cleanair, cleantrucks, dieselpollution, mayorbloomberg, pollution, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, sierraclub
This post was co-written with Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. NRDC and Sierra Club are members of the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports, supporters of the clean truck program. "Cancer alley." That's what many Southern Californians...
January 29, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- coal, coalspill, jhenryfair, kentucky, mountaintopmining
As a lawyer, I've written about environmental harms quite often. Yet as I recently flew over several of the larger mountaintop mines in eastern Kentucky, I struggled to find the words to describe the devastation. The scars where trees, topsoil...
