Bright Spots Across the Country, Climate Action Hotline, 7.18.11

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director July 18, 2011 Bright Spots Across the Country On Monday the House of Representative voted down a bill that would have repealed a set of lighting efficiency standards set to phase in at the end of the year. The legislation (H.R. 2417) from Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) failed on a vote [...]

Offshore Drilling Overview and Other Hot Pubs

USCAN MEMBER REPORTS World Bank: An April 14th report by Friends of the Earth and several other non-governmental organizations highlights the World Bank’s continued detrimental financing of fossil fuels.  According to seven case studies of the report “World Bank, Climate Change and Energy Financing: Something Old. Something New?” the Bank’s increase in carbon-intensive financing and [...]

Bubbling and Crude: Gulf coast spill reflects devotion to wealth, power, and oil

By Keith Schneider US Climate Action Network On March 17, two weeks to the day before President Barack Obama laid out a new plan to expand offshore oil exploration in the United States, a government auction of federally controlled oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico was held at the New Orleans Superdome.  [...]

Dismay Over Drilling: Climate Action Hotline, Apr. 1

April 1, 2010 The Obama administration threw heaters this week to influence climate and energy policy and practices. The first announcement — to end a long-standing moratorium on offshore oil drilling — was seen as a wild pitch. The president said the Interior Department would open large swaths of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Alaskan coasts [...]