News Release | Environment America

Senate Demonstrates Support for Swapping Big Oil Giveaways for a Clean Energy Future

Today the US Senate voted on a bill offered by Senator Menendez that included provisions for extending key renewable energy and efficiency programs while doing away with billions of dollars in tax giveaways for big oil companies. The bill achieved a majority vote, 51 to 47, but did not receive the 60 votes necessary for passage. Environment America’s Federal Transportation Advocate, John Cross, released the following statement.

News Release | Environment America

Senate Debates Menendez Bill to End Handouts to Big Oil and Invest in Clean Energy Economy

The U.S. Senate, after voting by an overwhelming margin to consider the bill, is looking toward a possible vote on Thursday on the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act, sponsored by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). The bill would end taxpayer subsidies for the biggest oil companies in order to fund clean energy programs and reduce the deficit. John Cross, federal transportation advocate for Environment America, made the following statement.

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Another metric on energy efficiency

It's hardly a surprise that making energy efficiency improvements to buildings saves money and can benefit the environment in terms of reduced fossil fuel burning and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environment America’s Statement Re: President Obama’s Clean Vehicles Announcement

President Obama today announced a new initiative to encourage the production of alternative fuel vehicles, including a $1 billion National Community Deployment Challenge, as well as increased tax incentives and additional research grants.

Santorum is right about gas prices, now what's his plan?

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
By | Daniel Gatti
Environmental Policy Analyst

On Monday, presidential candidate Rick Santorum made the case that rising gas prices were among the causes of the 2008 financial collapse and resulting recession.  Since, various liberal commentators ranging from ThinkProgress to Ed Kilgore of the Washington Monthly have ridiculed Senator Santorum’s position. The critics are wrong.  

News Release | Environment America

U.S. House Attacks Public Transit Funding

Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee today proposed eliminating dedicated federal funding for mass transit, moving funds currently used for mass transit and putting them instead toward building new highways. This proposal for the bill comes on top of provisions from other House committees that would not only force us to consume more oil, but actually open new, destructive drilling throughout the country.

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House Transportation Bill Drives Us to Deeper Oil Dependence

This afternoon, Representative John Mica (R-FL), Chairman of the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, officially introduced a major transportation reauthorization bill. The overall plan for the bill includes proposals to open the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, and to open landscapes in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming to oil shale extraction.  At the same time, it cuts all funding for biking and walking safety and cripples environmental review for transportation projects. On top of this, Speaker of the House John Boehner has said that he would attach approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to this bill if it were not otherwise immediately approved.

News Release | Environment America

President Obama Expected to Stand up to Big Oil on Keystone XL Pipeline

According to media reports, President Obama and the State Department will today reject an effort to force administration approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Environment America Get Off Oil program director Daniel Gatti issued this statement in response.

Report | Environment America

Gobbling Less Gas for Thanksgiving: How Clean Cars Will Cut Oil Use and Save Americans Money

America’s dependence on oil threatens our environment, our economy, and our national security. Whether it is the scars left by the oil spills in the Yellowstone and Kalamazoo rivers and the Gulf of Mexico, the $1 billion that American families and businesses send overseas every day for oil, or the nearly 2 billion metric tons of global warming pollution emitted annually which fuels more and more extreme weather, these problems demand that we break our dependence on oil.  

News Release | Environment America

Clean Cars Would Cut Oil Use, Save Americans $260 Million on Thanksgiving Travel

As Americans prepare for the busiest travel holiday of the year, and days after the Obama administration proposed new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, a new Environment America report finds that more fuel efficient cars would significantly cut oil use and save Americans nearly $260 million at the pump this Thanksgiving alone. The report was released at an event today following the Obama administration’s announcement last week proposing new fuel efficiency and global warming pollution standards for cars and light trucks sold from 2017 through 2025.  

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