Texas Governor Gets a “Citizen Citation”

Texas Governor Rick Perry is one of several politicians and business interests (including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a group of senators) trying to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, but after he filed his lawsuit against the EPA this week, Texas environmental groups made a filing of their own. Texas’ Public Citizen [...]

Global Weirding: Climate Action Hotline, Feb. 11

February 11, 2010 On one side of the continent two blizzards buried the American East Coast this week in snow deep enough to shut down the Metro subway system, strand thousands of travelers, and shut federal offices in Washington for four days. Similarly weird weather unfolded more than 3,000 miles west in Vancouver, which last [...]

Upcoming Climate Trial

Tim DeChristopher got national headlines last year when he bid on and won 14 oil and gas leases worth $1.8 million.  Now he’s headed for a trial  for making false statements and interfering with an auction and the sentence could include up to 10 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. He plans to argue [...]

National TV Ad Urges Congress to Pass Clean Energy Act

Operation Free has launched a new national television ad. It highlights the connections between our dependence on oil and funding for terrorist organizations, urging Congress to take action and pass clean energy legislation. Operation Free is a coalition of groups including VoteVets.org, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans & Military Families for Progress supporting the [...]

Richmond Passes Resolution on Limiting CO2

Last week the Richmond, California City Council passed a resolution that recognizes 350 ppm CO2 as the sensible limit to prevent catastrophic climate change. Richmond is home to a large Chevron refinery, which is the largest contributor of emissions in the state. The Richmond resolution commits the city to a series of educational presentations, beginning [...]

Clean Coal? — Gillian Caldwell Engages President Obama

On Thursday night, February 5, Gillian Caldwell  went to hear what President Obama had to say at a Gen44 event organized by the Democratic National Committee. Caldwell, the campaign director for 1Sky, a prominent climate action group based in Takoma Park, Maryland got more than the chance to hear the president. “I happened to catch [...]

Congress Holds Key to Creating Green Jobs

Hundreds of thousands of jobs would be created if the U.S. would institute a renewable electricity standard (RES) to mandate creating 25 percent of its power from renewable sources, according to a new report. The report from RES Alliance, a group of renewable energy companies, says the creation of a federal RES could create 274,000 [...]

Solar Roofs Bill Introduced in Congress

Late last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a bill aimed at getting 10 million new solar rooftop systems and 200,000 new solar hot water heating systems installed in the U.S. in the next 10 years. The bill would offer rebates for up to half of the cost of new solar-powered systems. The bill has [...]

Coal River Mountain Treesitter Pens Letter from Jail

The following is from Eric Blevins, one of the recent Coal River Mountain treesitters. His hearing is currently scheduled for Feb. 23. I wrote this letter to the editor to the Beckley paper while in jail and told it to someone over the phone who sent it to them for me. They didn’t print it [...]

Energy Is Not Enough: Climate Action Hotline, Feb. 5

February 5, 2010 Whether carbon limits, clean energy, nukes, and drilling makes for good climate policy is, to put it lightly, a good question. But this week there’s little dispute that the politics got more interesting and perhaps more hopeful. On Tuesday President Obama explained to a New Hampshire audience the gathering momentum in the [...]

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