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Melissa Waage –
Campaign Director
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Posted January 10, 2012 in Health and the Environment, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- coal, coalmining, dirtycoal, mountaintopremoval, mtr, tennessee
Will this be the year that Tennessee becomes the first state to ban mountaintop removal mining? Leaders in the state legislature are once again pressing forward with the Scenic Vistas Protection Act, a bill to end mountaintop removal in the state. And they...continued→
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Deron Lovaas –
Federal Transportation Policy Director
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Posted January 10, 2012 in Moving Beyond Oil
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- CAFE, cars, cleanvehicles, driving, energy, fuel, fuel economy, fuel prices, gas tax, gasoline, highways, Hormuz, independence, infrastructure, Iran, market, Obama, oil dependence, oildrilling, public transportation, repair, revenue, security, tax, transportation
With demand for oil increasing in Latin America and elsewhere in the world and Iran threatening to close the Straits of Hormuz, it is not inconceivable that the price of oil could reach an all-time high and stay there...continued→
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Kaid Benfield –
Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
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Posted January 10, 2012 in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably
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- greenbelt, greeninfrustructure, milan, revitalization, smartercities, smartgrowth, sprawl, stefanoboeri, sustainablecommunities
Italian architect Stefano Boeri dreams big and green. He has created six bold, transformational "ideas for a bio-diverse metropolis” that could be installed in and around the city of Milan, to establish “transitional states between the city, nature and agriculture”...continued→
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Amrita Batra –
Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture
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Posted January 10, 2012 in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- diesel, Durban, energy, energyefficient, health, India, IndiaInitiative, pollution, renewable, solar, solarpower
Climate India against binding pact on emission cuts: Jayanthi “India will not accept any binding targets under a new post 2020 climate regime until the principle of differentiation based on equity is defined, Union environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan told the...continued→
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Roland Hwang –
Transportation Program Director
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- 60mpg, autoindustry, automakers, california, californiaairresourcesboard, cleancars, efficiency, fueleconomy, fuelefficiency, hybrids, nationalprogram, pollutionstandards
Unlike the recent years, this year’s Detroit Auto Show is full of optimism. As i discuss in my op-ed in today's Detroit Free Press and in my speech today in Detroit at the annual Automotive News Congress, the environmental community is...continued→
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Zak Smith –
Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- alaska, atlantic, biogems, brain, california, canada, carbon, cardiff, climatechange, dolphins, endangeredspecies, extinct, fossil, globalwarming, hunting, ireland, japan, killerwhale, kyotoprotocol, manatee, marinemammals, noisepollution, nrdc, porpoise, seals, seismic, shipping, sonar, southernresidentkillerwhale, wales, whales
News in the world of whales last week (or close to it). First of all, Happy New Year! Let’s hope this is the year humans collectively pull their heads out of the sand and get serious about saving the planet. ...continued→
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Meredith Connolly –
Energy Law and Policy Fellow
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- climatechange, domesticcontent, globalwarming, india, indiainitiative, nationalsolarmission, renewableenergy, solar
As the first batch of solar projects approach their one-year commissioning milestone for Phase I of India’s National Solar Mission (NSM), it has been reported that some projects may miss this crucial deadline and face penalties. With many projects behind...continued→
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Bobby McEnaney –
Land Policy Analyst
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- BLM, departmentofinterior, DOI, grandcanyon, kensalazar, mining, NPS, uranium, USGS
In what is a defining moment, the Obama administration announced today measures that will protect the Grand Canyon from future mining activities on over a million acres of public land. In particular, today’s decision to institute a mining moratorium...continued→
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Peter Lehner –
Executive Director
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
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- airpollution, asthma, beijing, cleanair, cleanairact, cleveland, EPA, newyork, pnp, publichealth, smog
The Republican Party has turned the Environmental Protection Agency into a political punching bag in the past year. GOP lawmakers routinely call for abolishing the agency and scraping the government standards that protect us from pollution. These attacks are part...continued→
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Andrew Wetzler –
Director, Land & Wildlife Program
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Health and the Environment, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- biogems, cancer, digitalis, drugs, endangeredspecies, foxglove, globalwarming, l-dopa, medicine, mountaintop, plants, vanilla, yew
Environment 360 reports: "A new study says that a warming climate is having a more profound effect on the world’s mountain vegetation than previously believed and that some alpine meadows could vanish altogether within a few decades." What many people fail to...continued→
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Tina Swanson –
Director, Science Center
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
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- BDCP, conservation, planning, science
Listening to the news and public discourse these days, there seems to be a lot of confusion about science—what it is and what it’s good for. Public understanding of science has fallen and, in some arenas, science is under attack,...continued→
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Susan Casey-Lefkowitz –
Director International Program
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
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- biogems, dirtyfuels, keystonexl, northerngateway, oilsands, tarsands
Rather than preparing to listen respectfully to community members in British Columbia, the Canadian federal government is acting as a spokesperson for Big Oil accusing opponents of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline of being “radicals” and “foreigners.” When it comes...continued→
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NRDC News –
NRDC News Team
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Posted January 9, 2012 in The Media and the Environment
The Wall Street Journal quoted Larry Levine regarding a Supreme Court case about Clean Water Act enforcement; Larry was also quoted extensively about the case in the print edition of the New York Times, NPR, McClatchy Newspaper, and the Huffington...continued→
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Legislative Watch –
A Newsletter
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Posted January 9, 2012 in U.S. Law and Policy
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In early December the House approved, largely by party-line votes, three bills that would significantly alter the entire regulatory system in ways that would make it much harder to issue new rules to protect health and the environment; the Obama...continued→
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Kaid Benfield –
Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
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Posted January 9, 2012 in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably
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- calthorpe, highspeedrail, smartercities, smartgrowth, sustainablecommunities, TOD, transit-oriented, visioncalifornia
Imagine a scenario by which our country’s most populous state, notorious for freeways, traffic nightmares and smog, could reduce driving by 3.7 trillion miles by 2050 (compared to trends forecast under business as usual), the equivalent of taking all...continued→
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