Clean Breeze for the Economy

USCAN MEMBER REPORTS Economy and Green Investment: In a testament to the power of green technology to stimulate economic growth, “Rebuilding Green: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Green Economy” presents case studies of green investments’ effect on job creation.   According to the February report by the Economic Policy Institute and the BlueGreen [...]

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 [...]

Toxin Contamination and Other Hot Pubs

USCAN  MEMBER HOT PUBLICATIONS Coal and Hexavalent Chromium: A report by Earthjustice, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Environmental Integrity Project highlights the health threats of a cancer-causing chemical found at 29 sites in 17 states.  Further contamination is likely since coal ash dumps are inadequately monitored.  Although municipal water is now being tested for hexavalent [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 2.3.11

UPDATES 1. Senate Attacks on the Clean Air Act: Senator Barrasso (R-WY) Monday Senator Barrasso (R-WY) introduced a bill (S. 228) that would block federal agencies from cleaning up dangerous carbon pollution, undermining landmark laws like the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced a bill [...]

Small Steps Forward…, Climate Action Hotline 12.13.10

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director December 13, 2010 Small Steps Forward… World attention turned to global warming last week as governments came together around some cooperative efforts in Cancun, Mexico, while back in DC, both Congress and the Courts took important steps to curb climate change and pave the way for a clean energy economy. Two [...]

Climate Action Hotline, 11.29.10

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director November 29, 2010 Climate Action Hotline According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, world carbon dioxide emissions fell 1.3% between 2008 and 2009, with increased coal use limiting this decrease. In the U.S., emissions fell 7% because of the sinking economy, better energy efficiency, and cleaner energy according to the [...]

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, [...]

Amid Turbulence A Path For Climate Action, Climate Action Hotline 11.10.10

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director November 10, 2010 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 [...]

Coal Is King In China, And Top Priority For Engineers Determined To Lower Climate Risks

TIANJIN, China – This industrious nation’s allegiance to construction projects of massive scale are as familiar to the world as the 2,500-year-old, 5,500-mile Great Wall of China, which protected the country’s northern frontier, and as imposing as the wide moats and towering red stone walls of the 600-year-old Forbidden City at the heart of Beijing. [...]

A Vow Not To Go Away on Climate Legislation: Climate Action Hotline July 23

July 23, 2010 No sooner had Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on Thursday that climate measures would be dropped from a new and much more narrowly focused energy bill than the finger pointing began. Democrats blamed Republican resistance. Republicans countered that not even enough Democrats were wedded to cuts in carbon emissions.  Climate advocates [...]

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