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Fossil Fuel's PR Problem – It’s the pollution stupid

Neil Shader
Friday, December 7, 2012

 

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Climate change action - uncertainty is not an excuse

Aug 5, 2011

The is blog post is written by Valerie Shen, a sophomore at Harvard College, who is interning this summer for the Climate Change Policy team at The Wilderness Society.

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Drilling and Spilling on Alaska's North Slope

May 15, 2005

Three decades of oil industry public relations have drilled away at one familiar theme that belies the reality on the ground: that drilling can be done in an “environmentally responsible” fashion. The reality is that the sprawling industrial infrastructure and pollution associated with drilling on the North Slope continue to have pervasive, lasting, and serious environmental consequences.

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Pacific Northwest Forests Top at Storing Carbon

Anonymous
Mar 4, 2010

Wilderness Society analysis names top ten national forest “carbon banks”

SEATTLE — The top ten carbon storing national forests in the U.S. are all found in the moist westside forests in Washington, Oregon and southeast Alaska, according to a new Wilderness Society analysis. The analysis, based on United States Forest Service data, ranks the forests among the Earth’s greatest “carbon banks.”

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Preserving California’s Public Lands To Buffer Global Warming’s Effects

Anonymous
Jun 17, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO – The White House release Tuesday of “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” forecasts a dim future for California if action is not taken immediately.

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Statement on Today’s White House Automobile Standards Announcement

Anonymous
May 19, 2009

Today the White House will harmonize automobile emissions and mileage standards that California had been seeking with tough new national standards for the entire country. This move will accelerate by 4 years standards adopted by Congress in 2007 to get the nation’s vehicles at a target of 35.5 mpg and, for the first time, to impose limits on global warming pollution from cars and trucks. Today’s announcement means new standards will be in place between 2016 and 2020.

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Statement on Release of EPA’s Proposed “Endangerment” Finding

Anonymous
Apr 17, 2009

Today, in a decision based on a careful review of scientific evidence, the Environmental Protection Agency found that greenhouse gases endanger the public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act. This finding was expected, but long overdue because the previous administration respected neither the science nor the law. The consequence of this finding is that EPA will now begin the task of reducing these emissions through the permitting process provided by the Clean Air Act.

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Murkowski offering a murky deal for our air

Mar 4, 2010

A few weeks ago I discussed a pending threat from Sen. Murkowski, and it looks like time is short. As you’ll recall, this should-be/ would-be climate champ is leading the charge to prevent the EPA from moving ahead on climate action. This is especially disconcerting, considering her home state of Alaska is feeling and will continue to feel the impacts of climate change far more than most places — just ask folks in Shishmaref and other towns falling into the sea!

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Reality check on fossil fuel subsidies

Sep 25, 2009

The problem of global warming is, first and foremost, a problem with how we use energy and the land. If we want less global warming pollution, we need more low- or no-carbon energy sources. The reverse is also true: we should expect our global warming problem to get worse as long as we bias the energy markets in favor of the highest-polluting fuels.

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EPA Finds Global Warming Pollutants Endanger Public Health

Apr 17, 2009

Late this morning, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson signed a proposed finding of “endangerment,” finding that six greenhouse gases — including carbon dioxide and methane — pose a potential threat to the public health and welfare as defined under the Clean Air Act and, as such, may be subject to EPA regulation.

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