Clean Air Act Digest, 3.30.12

UPDATES Carbon Pollution Standard: On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first national limits on carbon pollution from new electric power plants. This is an incredibly important step forward to protect American’s health and well-being from the carbon pollution that is driving dangerous climate change. Carbon pollution fuels climate change that raises temperatures and [...]

The Water is Wide: Sea Level Rise and Flooding in a Warming World, Hotline 3.19.12

  The Water is Wide: Sea Level Rise and Flooding in a Warming World “The water is wide, I cannot cross over,” sighs the old folk song, and more Americans may be singing this melancholy tune in the future.  This week saw the release of two striking new reports on the threats of flooding due [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 3.16.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: Senate On Wednesday, the Senate passed S. 1813, the much-debated surface transportation act. As we mentioned last week, this legislation was a potential vehicle for Clean Air Act riders. However, last Thursday the Senate successfully rejected the Collins amendment to block EPA’s air toxics standards for industrial boilers. The final package did [...]

Climate Action Hotline, 3.12.12

  Last year, the world watched a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. News from these tragic disasters quickly evolved as reports showed that Japan’s nuclear power facility, Fukushima Dai-ichi, had very serious problems. This heartbreaking and horrifying disaster provided an impetus to re-evaluate the safety and security of nuclear power.For this week’s feature I [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 3.9.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: Senate Good news! Yesterday, the Collins amendment to block EPA’s air toxics standards for industrial boilers failed on the Senate floor. The amendment, offered to the unrelated Surface Transportation Act (S. 1813), needed 60 votes to pass but received a vote of 52-46. This anti-environmental rider would have re-written toxics standards for [...]

Communicating Climate Change, Hotline 3.7.12

  Communicating Climate Change Each day, those of us in the climate community become increasingly aware of the causes, impacts, and urgency of climate change.  Many of us spend our days trying to communicate to the public and policy-makers in a variety of ways to raise awareness, make connections, and foster change. It’s a big [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 3.1.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: Senate Starting this week, the Senate is considering amendments to the Surface Transportation Act, S. 1813.  Senator Collins (R-ME) is seeking to offer an amendment—completely unrelated to transportation—that would block EPA’s standards to reduce mercury and other toxic air pollutants from industrial boilers and incinerators. The amendment is similar to her bill, [...]

Climate Action Hotline, 2.27.12

  LOOK OUT! The weekly Climate Action Hotline will be changing over the next few weeks.  As you may know, the US Climate Action Network has grown to include more than 85 member organizations with many more allies working on climate and energy issues. We love to share the great work happening on climate change, not [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 2.21.12

UPDATES Legislative Update: Long-Awaited Payroll Tax Cut Extension: A clean payroll tax cut extension was wrapped up last week, and the final legislation did not include any anti-environmental riders. This is a tremendous victory for the clean air community as this bill was considered a vehicle for clean air attacks, and the opposition attempted to [...]

The Unsettling Attacks on Green Cities and Counties

Guest blog by Michael Schmitz, Executive Director of ICLEI USA Back in 2010, when Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes accused Denver’s bicycle sharing program of being part of an insidious United Nations conspiracy to take over America’s communities, a nation chuckled at the absurdity. “Cities Engage in Vast Biking Conspiracy (Shh!)” read a New York [...]

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