Obama - Vetoes Coal State Democrats!
Well - not yet - but……….
As of the past week or so several Coal State members of Congress have introduced legislation that would prevent the EPA from moving forward with limits on emissions - which it currently has the legal right to do under The Clean Air Act.
According to Democratic Congressman from Virgina Rick Boucher [...]
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What is more dangerous, climate change or terrorism?
We are all too familiar with the consequences of terrorism and few deny the earth’s climate is changing. In today’s social discourse both ideas are loaded and politicized. Neither phenomenon is universally defined and the approach to each is emotional and controversial.
Consider the causalities of each to determine which is more dangerous. As expected there [...]
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USGBC Names ‘Top 10 List’ of Green Building Bills
Even with the challenges in Washington there can be some progress on the Green Building front. In that regard, on February 24th the US Green Building Council released its “Top 10 List”of legislation and pending legislation in an effort to highlight areas of agreement (and potential agreement) that can positively impact the real estate community [...]
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Citizen of the Week Special Contest
The Climate Community Citizen of the Week Awards program is featuring a special contest!
Based on the success of December’s Citizen of the Week contest with the Anderson School of Management, this week we’ll travel to the University of Chicago, where students in the joint undergraduate/graduate course in Environmental Economics (page 11) will have the opportunity to [...]
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Climate Change: a matter of national security.
The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonpartisan research institute, has dedicated an initiative to discovering the links between our security, our energy, and our environment. The Pew Project on National Security, Energy, and Climate just released the below video. It contains interviews from military experts that include an Admiral, Captain, and a former US Senator all [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines of nuclear reactors. President Barack Obama announced this week that two new nuclear plants will go up in Georgia, built on the promise that the federal government will [...]
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Climate Change - on the run? (Is this for real?)
The science regarding climate change and the impact that CO2 can have on our atmosphere when out of balance has been clear for almost 50 years.
Yet, amazingly this evening as I searched Google under “Climate News” three articles appear which in effect seriously question the science, our need to act, and the steps we are [...]
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Senator Boxer - a true conservative!
Yesterday, Apple Levy (GreenGirls) and I attended an event for Senator Boxer held at the lovely home of Laurie David (Inconvenient Truth Producer).
The guest speaker for the event was former Vice President Al Gore. The conversation was excellent, and the group of people, guests of Ms. David were interesting and diverse and all looked forward [...]
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My rants on Climate Legislation…and a draft of Obamas “Dear John” letter
My vote may not have meant much per se - but to me it was important. For me, much of 2008 was spent debating with myself, my friends, colleagues, and those poor saps stuck next to me on airplanes, as to whom to vote for in the 2008 presidential election. Should I choose the young, [...]
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