skip to main content

Natural Resources Defense Council

Switchboard

Rob Perks's Blog

Tags: solar

Support Wind, Save a Mountain: The Battle for Coal River Mountain

October 27, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
appalachia, coalmining, coalriver, coalrivermountain, dirtycoal, dirtyenergy, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, obama, solar, wind

Let me get this straight. President Obama, touting his administration's support for clean energy, visited Florida yesterday to tour the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, with its solar panels sprawling across 180 acres that can generate power for 3,000 homes. Yet on Coal River...continued

Global Clean Energy Economy Won't Wait for U.S. to Catch Up

July 16, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cleanenergy, climatebill, climatechange, congress, dirtycoal, energy, obama, renewableenergy, solar, wind, windpower

  The clean energy economy is upon us -- but will the U.S. heed the call? That's the gist of today's Washington Post story with this stark headline: Asian Nations Could Outpace U.S. in Developing Clean Energy. Excerpt: President Obama...continued

Drill, baby drill makes me ill, baby ill.

September 15, 2008

Posted by Rob Perks in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
drilling, gasprices, ocs, solar, wind

This is the week that Democratic leaders in Congress are expected to bring their energy legislation to a vote. Although details have yet to emerge it’s a safe bet that opening some offshore areas to oil drilling will be a...continued

Rob Perks
Rob Perks
Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
Washington, D.C.
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and...
more

Switchboard Archives

Rob Perks's archives