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Frances Beinecke –
President of NRDC
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Posted November 5, 2014 in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- boehner, carbonpollution, cleanpowerplan, EPA, mcconnell, midtermelections, ozone, REINS, watersoftheus
Concerns about the economy and heath care may have dominated the midterms, but the election results have unleashed a major threat to our children’s health and the environment. The Senate is now in the control of a handful of GOP...continued→
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Sierra Martinez –
Legal Director, California Energy Projects
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Posted November 6, 2014 in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
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- californiaenergy, californialowbills, energy, energybills, energyefficiency, energyprices, energyrates
Despite all the facts, the myth that Californians pay a lot of money for their electricity every month continues to be perpetuated, with its proponents using their misguided interpretation of the data to justify their claim that California shouldn’t be...continued→
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Avinash Kar –
Senior Attorney & Director of Policy and Research, India Initiative, International Program
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Posted November 6, 2014 in Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
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- airconditioners, climatechange, energy, energyefficiency, environment, HFCs, hydrofluorocarbons, india, international
Guest blog by Bhaskar Deol, NRDC India Representative based in New Delhi (This is the third and final post in a series of blogs on environmentally friendly refrigerant alternatives for India’s room air conditioner (AC) sector. The first two posts...continued→
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Avinash Kar –
Senior Attorney & Director of Policy and Research, India Initiative, International Program
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Posted November 6, 2014 in Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
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- airconditioners, climatechange, energy, energyefficiency, environment, HFCs, hydrofluorocarbons, india, international
Guest blog by Bhaskar Deol, NRDC India Representative based in New Delhi (This post is second in a series of blogs on environmentally friendly refrigerant alternatives for India’s room air conditioner (AC) sector. The first post is available here, and...continued→
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Merrian Borgeson –
Senior Scientist, Energy and Transportation
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Posted November 6, 2014 in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- ab32, bigoil, californiadriversalliance, frontgroups, oil, oilindustry, transportationfuels, westernstatespetroleumassociation, wspa
Californians have been besieged by ads, internet videos, and other media promoted by what appears to be a new crop of concerned citizens’ groups warning of the dire impacts of a supposed “hidden gas tax” on children, jobs, soccer moms,...continued→
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John Moore –
Senior Attorney – The Sustainable FERC Project
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Posted November 5, 2014 in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil
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- cleanenergy, electric, electricity, ferc, grid, nerc, reliability, renewablepower, transmission
A report issued by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) today raises questions about grid reliability under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reduce pollution from existing power plants, but it may be overstated in some respects. For...continued→
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Noah Horowitz –
Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Energy Efficiency
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Posted November 5, 2014 in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
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- climatechange, energy, energyefficiency, energystar, EPA, LEDs, lightbulbs, lighting
Now that we've completed the annual ritual of setting our clocks back an hour with the end of Daylight Savings Time, we're in "lighting season" where the days get shorter and our lights stay on more hours per day. But...continued→
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Jake Schmidt –
Director, International Program
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Posted November 5, 2014 in Greening China, Solving Global Warming
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- china, climatechange, climatetalks, coal, international, parisclimate2015
Working on international climate change issues over the years I’ve seen the debate shift profoundly in several ways. One of the key shifts is the perception that countries like China aren’t doing anything on climate change – a relic of...continued→
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John Moore –
Senior Attorney – The Sustainable FERC Project
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Posted November 4, 2014 in Curbing Pollution
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- carbonpollution, coal, consumers, electricity, energyefficiency, energygrid, EPA, solarpower
The electric power industry is changing, driven by many factors. Leading the way are quintessential marketplace factors like fuel price changes and the emergence of new technologies. Another factor in the mix is the implementation of long-overdue pollution standards that are...continued→
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Theo Spencer –
Senior Advocate
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Posted November 4, 2014 in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
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- cleanenergy, CPS, energyefficiency, renewables
Late last week the Obama Administration released Federal agency climate plans that focus on the carbon pollution reductions that agencies are achieving, and the moves they’re making to fortify their facilities and protect their personnel from the impacts of climate...continued→
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Kimi Narita –
Outreach Manager, City Energy Project
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Posted November 4, 2014 in Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
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- benchmarking, buildingefficiency, buildings, climatechange, denver, denver city energy project
Last week Denver took a big step toward achieving major city-wide energy savings by launching the Denver City Energy Project, a voluntary program that aims to benchmark building energy performance across the city. Specifically, the program targets commercial and multifamily...continued→
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Merrian Borgeson –
Senior Scientist, Energy and Transportation
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Posted November 4, 2014 in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- ab32, cleanenergy, globalwarmingsolutionsact, lobbying, oildependence, oilindustry
When California’s secretary of state released the third-quarter lobbying spending numbers late Friday, Big Oil yet again emerged as a real “leader.” The oil industry almost doubled its spending on lobbyists from the second to third quarters of 2014, paying...continued→
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Frances Beinecke –
President of NRDC
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Posted November 4, 2014 in Solving Global Warming
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- #ActOnClimate, carbonpollution, cleanenergy, cleanpowerplan, climateactionplan, climatechange, climateimpacts, extremeweather, flooding, heatwaves, IPCC, renewables, worldwecreate
The world’s leading scientists released their gravest warning yet about the threat of climate change, saying we will face “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts” unless we act now. This report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that...continued→
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David Doniger –
Director, Climate and Clean Air Program
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Posted October 31, 2014 in Solving Global Warming
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- #ActOnClimate, carbonpollution, cleanairact, cleanpowerplan, ClimateActionPlan, climatechange, EPA
This summer and fall the EPA has continued its marathon stakeholder outreach and listening process on its Clean Power Plan to clean up dangerous carbon pollution. The supplemental notice and new ideas that EPA issued for public comment on October...continued→
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Barbara Finamore –
Senior Attorney and Asia Director
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Posted October 28, 2014 in Curbing Pollution, Greening China
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- airpollution, blackcarbon, china, chinaclimate, fuelswitching, greenshipping, HongKong, incentives, ports, Shenzhen, shorepower
As President Obama and other Asia-Pacific leaders gather in Beijing for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, climate change and air pollution will undoubtedly be on the agenda. This summit therefore provides an important opportunity for these leaders to address...continued→
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Amanda Jahshan –
Wildlife Energy Conservation Fellow
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Posted October 28, 2014 in Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, U.S. Law and Policy
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- blm, energydevelopment, fws, oilandgas, sagegrouse
A new report shows minimal energy development potential in prime Greater Sage Grouse habitat in the West. The report was commissioned by Western Values Project and conducted by Western EcoSystems Technology (WEST). In fact, according to the report, 73-81%...continued→
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