Look Both Ways Before Crossing: Voices from the Right and Left, Climate Action Hotline, 6.27.11

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director June 27, 2011 Look Both Ways Before Crossing: Voices from the Right and Left In a passionate Rolling Stone article, environmental champion Al Gore critiques the Obama Administration’s environmental record and leadership on climate change this week. He blames President Obama for failing to demonstrate the “magnitude of the climate crisis” [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 4.8.11

UPDATES Senate: Wednesday, the Senate rejected 4 proposals that would block the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to control carbon pollution. These amendments were offered as part of the Small Business bill (S. 493) and each would have tied the hands of the EPA. * McConnell (R-KY) Amendment #183: Would have allowed unlimited carbon pollution and would [...]

Uncovering True Costs

USCAN MEMBER REPORTS Clean Air Act Works: “Study after study has found that a shift to a clean-energy economy creates new jobs, that upfront costs of environmental compliance are not responsible for decisions to relocate operations outside the United States, and that the estimated costs of compliance with new environmental protections are routinely overstated.”  Meanwhile, [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 2.10.11

UPDATES 1. First Hearing on Bad Air Bill Held on Wednesday: – The Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held its first hearing on Chairman Upton’s Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011. The bill, along with its Senate companion introduced by Sen. Inhofe, would repeal the EPA’s CO2 endangerment finding [...]

World Leaders Address 2011 Climate Plans, Climate Action Hotline 1.31.11

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director January 31, 2011 World Leaders Address 2011 Climate Plans In the U.S. last week, climate advocates reacted to President Obama’s annual State of the Union speech and several current and former members’ of Congress plans to weaken or even eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency. While around the world, heads of state, [...]

Amid Turbulence A Path For Climate Action

In the past week, two of the prominent names in American politics and business appeared to reach consistent conclusions about governing, technology, and the warming climate. On Friday, Karl Rove told an audience of natural gas developers in Texas that “climate is gone” as a Congressional issue. And this week, in a Rolling Stone interview, [...]

Ahead of the Election, Signs of Hope and Caution For Climate Activists

A week before the critically significant national election for climate activists there’s promising news from California. A Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California poll released over the weekend found that Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, one of Capitol Hill’s most important advocates for reducing climate-changing emissions, has opened an eight-point lead over Republican candidate Carly Fiorina, [...]

Deep Drill Moratorium Lifted, Clean Energy Progresses, No Change at Top of IPCC

A week after the Obama administration lifted the temporary ban on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a group of oil executives yesterday appeared at a forum in Houston at the South Texas College of Law to explain how an essentially unregulated industry was contending with the government’s new rules. The short course: Executives [...]

Big Oil’s Challenge to California Climate Law Draws Fire From… Big Oil

Public interest groups, city halls, and even one of the state’s largest refiners are fighting back against a tide of money pouring into California from three oil companies bent on enacting Proposition 23, the November ballot initiative intended to suspend the state’s pioneering climate action law. Of the $8.2 million spent by supporters of Prop [...]

Climate Action Heats Up as Summer Wanes

By Keith Schneider US Climate Action Network Congress resumes after a long August recess and the concerted influence of the climate community will focus this month on protecting EPA’s authority to act on global warming and pushing the agency to be more aggressive. First order of business: blocking rogue proposals this week that are attached [...]

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