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Promising Start to Renewed Chesapeake Bay Clean-up 9/01/2010

Today Maryland agencies submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drafts of new plans to restore the Chesapeake Bay. The drafts are publicly available and are part of the bay-wide "pollution budget," a collaborative effort between federal and state partners aimed at cleaning up the bay and its source waters. After an initial review of the documentation, Environment Maryland Policy Advocate Tommy Landers issued this statement.

President’s Oil Spill Commission Should Call for Permanent Protection of U.S. Coasts and Drilling Reform 8/25/2010

Today in Washington, D.C., the President’s Oil Spill Commission will hold a forum that focuses on offshore drilling reform with a variety of industry and academic experts. While the public is invited to watch the discussion and submit comments, testimony from the public will be very limited. Mike Gravitz, Oceans Advocate for Environment America released the following statement.

NJ Governor Signs Major Offshore Wind Bill 8/19/2010

Today, Governor Christie will sign legislation to support the development of wind farms off the Jersey shore. The bill calls for at least 1,100 megawatts of offshore wind - or enough to power roughly 350,000 New Jersey homes.

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Our Great Waters 6/22/2010

From the Chesapeake Bay to the Puget Sound to the Great Lakes to the San Francisco Bay, Americans throughout the country depend on our waters for fishing, recreation and clean drinking water. Unfortunately, our waters continue to be plagued by high levels of pollution. To restore and protect our great waters, Environment America is calling on Congress to pass legislation this summer that will reduce pollution, increase investments in restoration efforts, and protect our most treasured places for generations to come.

The Nuclear Bailout: President Obama’s high risk gamble on new reactors undermines the fight against global warming 6/15/2010

In February 2010, the Obama administration announced that it would help finance two new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power station in Georgia, offering an $8.33 billion loan guarantee to Georgia Power (a subsidiary of Southern Company) and two other companies invested in the project. President Obama claimed that the investment was necessary to create clean energy jobs, stimulate our economy to export homegrown technology instead of importing foreign oil, and secure the future of our planet and our civilization by fighting the growing threat of global warming. However, this loan is an expensive gamble on a technology with a long history of bankrupting utilities and soaking ratepayers. New nuclear reactors are not cheap, not clean, and will set America back in the race against global warming.

Building Better: How High-Efficiency Buildings Will Save Money and Reduce Global Warming 3/31/2010

We can save money and help solve global warming by reducing the amount of energy we use, and the best place to start is in the buildings we live and work in every day. Over 40 percent of our energy – and 10 percent of all the energy used in the world – goes toward powering America’s buildings, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Today’s high-efficiency homes and buildings prove that we have the technology and skills to drastically improve the efficiency of our buildings while simultaneously improving their comfort and affordability.

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Exec. Director Margie Alt moderates press event on BP oil spill

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