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| 2010-03-11 | |
| The U.S. governors who have publicly opposed recent efforts in Congress to block the Clean Air Act represent a nearly equal portion of the U.S. population as do the governors who signed today’s letter spearheaded by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a former utility industry lobbyist, according to an Environment America analysis. | |
| 2010-03-11 | |
| Washington, DC—This morning on Capitol Hill a coalition of environmental and other organizations launched a 40-day campaign for an Earth Day Revolution. Anna Aurilio, Director of the Washington, DC office of Environment America delivered a statement at the launch event. | |
| 2010-03-11 | |
| Washington, D.C. – Today the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will review proposals that would reduce pollution and create hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs over the next two years through programs that make our homes and buildings more energy efficient. The hearing will focus on the Home Star residential retrofit program, which would provide rebates and incentives to consumers who invest in new energy efficient appliances, weatherize their homes, or purchase other efficient technologies for their home. Environment America’s Clean Energy Associate Alex Wall released a statement in response. | |
| 2010-03-04 | |
| Senator Jay Rockefeller and Representative Nick Rahall today introduced legislation to establish a two-year freeze on enforcement of the Clean Air Act for global warming pollution. The two-year freeze would affect America’s biggest polluters, including coal plants, oil refineries, and other major polluters. | |
| 2010-03-02 | |
| On the heels of Senator John Kerry promising to produce in the next two weeks an energy and global warming bill that can pass the U.S. Senate, 13 senators today sent Majority Leader Harry Reid a letter urging him to ensure that the bill does not repeal Clean Air Act protections that require coal-fired power plants to meet modern standards for global warming pollution. | |
| 2010-02-16 | |
| Governor Perry announced that the state of Texas will take legal action in the U.S. Court of Appeals challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. | |
| 2010-02-08 | |
| Today, polar explorer Will Steger and several Minnesota business leaders discussed the opportunities for clean energy solutions in Minnesota. They gathered at a press conference co-hosted by Environment Minnesota at a solar energy business in Minneapolis. The group illustrated the importance a strong limit on carbon emissions has on future investments and job growth and why the U.S. needs bold climate action in 2010. | |
| 2010-01-21 | |
| Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced a resolution today disapproving of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s December 2009 scientific finding that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants threaten human health and the environment. She crafted the resolution pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, a law that enables Congress to veto federal agency rules using special, expedited procedures. | |
| 2010-01-20 | |
| Detroit, MI —Increasing America’s use of plug-in electric (PEV) and plug in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) would dramatically reduce emissions that cause global warming and air pollution and would curb our dependence on oil, according to a new white paper released today by Environment America at the North American International Auto Show. | |
| 2009-12-30 | |
| Today eleven Northeast and mid-Atlantic states took another step toward reducing the region’s dangerous dependence on oil and fostering the growth of clean fuel alternatives when their governors signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop a mandatory, multi-state Low Carbon Fuel Standard. | |
| 2009-12-19 | |
| "We applaud the steps taken in Copenhagen but we call on our national and international leaders to build upon the success in the states and commit to reducing global warming pollution to the levels scientists say is necessary." | |
| 2009-12-17 | |
| Republican Senators, including South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, today indicated their desire to pass a resolution disapproving of the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent finding that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants threaten human health and the environment. | |
| 2009-12-11 | |
| "For Florida, the irony of drilling in a climate bill is particularly cruel. If enacted as law, these principles may spare much of our coastline from rising seas, only to mar its world renown beauty with toxic pollution and subject it to the threat of a catastrophic oil spill." | |
| 2009-12-11 | |
| Senators Maria Cantwell and Susan Collins today introduced the Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal (CLEAR) Act, a cap and refund bill to address global warming and move America to clean energy. | |
| 2009-12-07 | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today will finalize its proposed finding that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations, setting the stage for regulating the pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The announcement comes as world leaders kick off two weeks of negotiations in Copenhagen on a global climate treaty. | |
| 2009-12-03 | |
| The United States, long considered a laggard in addressing global warming, is poised to achieve significant reductions in global warming pollution thanks to clean energy and climate policies driven by the states, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by Environment America. | |
| 2009-11-30 | |
| On November 18, 2009, Federal Global Warming Program Director Emily Figdor gave testimony before the EPA on the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. The full text of her testimony appears below. | |
| 2009-11-24 | |
| The nation’s power plants emitted 2.56 billion tons of global warming pollution in 2007, which is equivalent to the pollution from nearly 450 million of today’s cars – nearly three times the number of cars registered in the United States in 2007, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment America. More than 70 percent of this pollution came from plants – primarily coal plants – built before 1980. | |
| 2009-11-12 | |
| Global warming pollution declined in one-third of the states since 2004, the year in which pollution levels began to peak in many states, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment America. States are reducing pollution in part by using cleaner energy that keeps money and jobs in the local economy. Pollution levels, however, rose in the majority of states (33) between 2004 and 2007. | |
| 2009-10-21 | |
| Environment Michigan Associate Shelley Vineyard testified at the U.S. EPA and NHSTA hearing in Detroit on October 21, 2009. Here is the full text of her testimony. | |
| 2009-10-19 | |
| The National Research Council’s report reinforces the unacceptably high cost of our dependence on dirty energy. Without quantifying the cost of global warming, many toxic pollutants like mercury or national security risks, the report puts a whopping $120 billion price tag on a year’s worth of mostly air pollution from our dirty energy sources, which we can add to the nearly $1 trillion a year consumers spend directly on our dirty fossil fuels. | |
| 2009-10-06 | |
| Yesterday, President Obama announced an Executive Order that requires the federal government to lead the country in using common sense energy solutions to take control of our energy use. | |
| 2009-09-30 | |
| Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry and Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer today will introduce the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. | |
| 2009-09-30 | |
| EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will announce today a proposed rule requiring large smokestack industries to use available technology to reduce their global warming pollution when facilities are constructed or significantly modified. | |
| 2009-09-28 | |
| Environment America today released “The Clean Energy Future Starts Here: Understanding the American Clean Energy and Security Act,” an analysis that puts the energy bill passed by the U.S. House in June in the perspective of its role in moving America toward clean energy, green jobs, and reduced global warming emissions. | |
| 2009-09-24 | |
| The Senate reached an agreement today on the additional amendments that will be considered as part of the FY 2010 Interior Appropriations bill (H.R. 2996), excluding an amendment sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski that would have substantially weakened the Clean Air Act’s public health and environmental protections. | |
| 2009-09-22 | |
| In 2008, people in America saved 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline by riding transit in record numbers – the amount consumed by 7.2 million cars in a year. Transportation is responsible for more than two-thirds of our dependence on oil, and about one-third of our carbon dioxide pollution as Environment America outlined in their new report “Getting On Track: Record Transit Ridership Increases Energy Independence.” | |
| 2009-09-15 | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation today proposed the first-ever uniform standards to improve fuel economy and reduce global warming pollution from new passenger vehicles. The standards largely mirror those already adopted by California and 13 other states. | |
| 2009-06-30 | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today approved the Clean Air Act waiver that California – as well as 13 other states and the District of Columbia – needs to implement its program to reduce global warming pollution from passenger vehicles. Combined, the programs in the 14 states and District of Columbia would reduce global warming pollution by 450million metric tons – the equivalent of eliminating the pollution from 84 million cars for a year – and save consumers more than $250 billion at the pump by 2020, according to an Environment America analysis. | |
| 2009-06-22 | |
| Leaders from the government, labor and faith communities today joined Pittsburgh-area U.S. Representative Mike Doyle and members of the environmental community including PennEnvironment, Blue Green Alliance, Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, PennFuture, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Clean Air Council to call for repowering Pennsylvania and reducing global warming pollution through the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454). | |