Groups Call on Senator Murray to End Oil Subsidies 10/19/2011

Seattle - Today, Environment Washington was joined by Pete Mills from Congressman Jim McDermott’s office, Rachel Padgett from Fuse Washington and local activists to call for an end to $44 billion in subsidies to Big Oil.

Environmental group posts new billboard in Yakima 10/20/2011

A Washington-based environmental group wants to educate people on oil subsidies. They unveiled a new billboard on West Mead Avenue today.

Senate Dems add to calls for supercommittee to nix oil tax breaks 10/18/2011

Fourteen Senate Democrats, joining their liberal House colleagues, are pushing the joint deficit supercommittee to repeal billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks as it seeks to trim the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion.

Dems press supercommittee to go after oil subsidies 10/17/2011

House Democrats are moving on several fronts to keep political pressure on the supercommittee to repeal oil-and-gas industry tax breaks in its deficit-reduction package.

Plug into Clean Energy 4/19/2011

The cleanest, most affordable energy is the energy we don’t use in the first place—and reducing the amount of energy we waste is the cheapest and fastest way to reduce global warming pollution and achieve greater energy security.

Dirty Energy’s Assault on Our Health: Ozone Pollution 4/07/2011

Dirty energy pollutes the air we breathe, threatening our health and our environment. When power plants burn coal, oil or gas, they create the ingredients for ground-level ozone pollution, one of the main components of “smog” pollution. Especially on hot summer days, across wide areas of the United States, ozone pollution reaches levels that are unhealthy to breathe, putting our lives at risk. In 2009, U.S. power plants emitted more than 1.9 million tons of ozone-forming nitrogen oxide pollution into the air.