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Let's Respect the Public With More Information

June 30, 2008

Posted by Peter Lehner

Tags:
beaches, cleanwateract, congress, epa, sewage, simplesteps, waterpollution, waterquality

We need a lot more environmental information to begin to address the lack of public understanding of environmental harms.This may seem obvious, but it isn’t. At a meeting a few years ago, I was shocked to find the head of...

We Can’t Drill To Lower Fuel Prices

June 20, 2008

Posted by Peter Lehner

Tags:
efficiency, fuelprices, gasprices, globalwarming, offshoredrilling

Yesterday, I wrote a post about the need to limit opening additional federal lands to offshore drilling. Two comments got me thinking, and made me want to expand upon my thoughts here.One commenter named Wayne said, “What this country needs...

Dear President Bush: No More Offshore Drilling

June 18, 2008

Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
efficiency, gasprices, globalwarming, greeneconomy, oceans, offshoredrilling

Earlier today, President Bush called upon Congress to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling that was enacted more than 25 years ago. Since then, every President has extended the moratorium – first by President Bush’s father, in 1990, and...