Carbon Pollution

By a vote of 148-0 South Korean lawmakers have just approved a national emissions trading program to reduce the global warming pollution from its largest sectors by 2015.

Last week, the EPA proposed historic new clean air standards to reduce industrial carbon pollution, an historic step by the Obama administration towards cleaning up our air and cutting dangerous global warming pollution.

Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share. The new carbon standard will help make that happen.

Every family has the right to breathe clean air, free from the toxic pollution. By establishing carbon pollution protections, the EPA is moving forward to clean up and modernize the way we power our country.

Americans know government safeguards drive dirty polluters to clean up their act. With these new carbon limits in place, we can count on a new generation of power plants that will create jobs, help stabilize the climate, and allow us all to breathe a little easier.

We support strong clean air standards that will safeguard our health, our families and our planet. Clean, healthy air and water are fundamental American rights.

At the insistence of Republican lawmakers, the tax bill moving through Congress includes a provision requiring the president to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline in 60 days. This is political opportunism at its most cynical.

President Obama has delivered another victory for clean energy innovation. Today his administration moved forward with new standards for cars, SUVs, and pick-up trucks that will almost double vehicle miles per gallon to 54.5 mpg by 2025.

In 2011, Congress passed bills which dedicated $750-950 million for international action addressing the impacts of global warming. The House appropriations committee recently passed a bill that seeks to gut these key actions.

When the federal government abrogates its duties under the Clean Air Act or Clean Water Act, does that mean that impacted communities just go along with it?

Sen. Brown claims he is trying to keep energy prices low and prevent over regulation of small business by the government. Certainly, admirable goals, but his execution is faulty.

If an airline claimed to be "green" but was actively working to gut carbon pollution standards, what would you do?

Oil companies know that, like clean car standards, many of the EPA's steps to curb refineries' carbon emissions have the potential to save money. But fortunately for them, they have lawmakers fighting for them in Congress.

Thousands of other scientists have concluded that global warming pollution threatens our health and welfare. And Congress responds, "No it doesn't, and we have the votes to prove it!"

The oil blowout that's fouled the Gulf of Mexico since April is many things: a human tragedy, an environmental disaster and a wake-up call. But it's not the greatest crisis facing the oceans today.

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger Coal consumption has costs -- this week's explosion at a West Virginia mine, which killed 25, made that cl...

At the Business Roundtable today, President Obama challenged business leaders to lead beyond the daily stock ticker and the quarterly profits report.

Today, Senator Boxer and I introduced our "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" that aims to put Americans back in charge of our energy future and our security.

I hope that the Sierra Club continues to support the new proposed bill more enthusiastically than they have the "greenwashing" efforts of their shot-gun bride, Clorox Corporation.