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Tax the Guy Behind the Tree

Carl Pope | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Co2, Kerry-Boxer, Lobbyists, American Petroleum Institute, John Kerry, Api, Climate Change, Clean Air Act, Global Warming, Green News
Carl Pope

Big Carbon is fighting for its life and seems determined to do as much damage as it can before it faces the inevitable. The world will move on to a clean-energy, post-coal-and-oil economy.

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The Good, Bad, and Ugly: A Look Back at the Drama Over the EPW Bill

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Jobs, Copenhagen 2009, Clean Energy, Lindsey Graham, Frank Lautenberg, Coal, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Dirty Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Senate, Barbara Boxer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Big Oil, Bob Menendez, John Kerry, Max Baucus, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Bill, 1sky, Green News
Gillian Caldwell

In the past week, a drama unfolded around the Senate EPW Committee hearings for the new Senate bill on climate and clean energy jobs. Declarations! Boycott threats! Power plays!

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WildEarth Guardians, Environmental Group, Files Suit To Prevent Xcel From Opening New Coal Plant In Pueblo

AP | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Coal Energy, Coal Power, Xcel, Colorado Department of Public Health, Publo Colorado, Coal Plant, Greenhouse Gases, Xcel Law Suit, Wildearth Guardians, Clean Air Act, Denver News

DENVER — An environmental group wants a judge to prevent Xcel Energy from firing up a new coal-fired plant in southern Colorado until a court ca...

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Necessary But Not Sufficient: Congress' Climate Bill

Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Clean Air Act, Climate Bill, Epa, Carbon Tax, Global Warming, Exxonmobil, Denver News
Anne Butterfield

The planet's survival relies partly on a climate bill but mostly on continued grassroots assault on coal plants and other offenders, plus disruptive clean technologies to take our markets by storm.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Another Company May Leave Chamber of Commerce Over Extreme Position On Climate Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Ronald Perelman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Climate Change, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Clean Air Act, Ron Perelman, Green News

The holding company owned by multi-billionaire Ronald Perelman is debating whether to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Huffington Post has lear...

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GM Forget the Guarantee, Fight for Clean Air.

Terry Gardner | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, General Motors, Gm, Clean Air Act, California, Green News
Terry Gardner

What good is a business's bottom line if we end up with air we can see and chew?

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You're Not the King of Me: Midwest Gen Runs Afoul of the Clean Air Act

Henry Henderson | Posted 09.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Natural Resources Defense Council, Epa, Chicago, Midwest Generation, Department of Justice, Pollution, Air Pollution, Coal, Clean Air Act, Lisa Madigan, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

Filing a lawsuit against the folks responsible for filth-spewing, coal-burning relics in Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods.

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Policies Can Work in Strange Ways

Robert Stavins | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Regulation, Climate Change, Chlorine, Green Jobs, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Green News
Robert Stavins

Environmental regulation does affect technological change, but not in the way many people assume it does

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Henry Waxman's Decade-Long Fight to Improve the Clean Air Act

David Roberts | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: John Dingell, Strategy, Henry Waxman, Air Pollution, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Clean Air Act, Green News
David Roberts

Henry Waxman's The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works is a series of first-person yarns containing startling measures of suspense, drama, and pathos.

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Grading a Climate Bill, Part 2

William S. Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Energy, Waxman-Markey, Barbara Boxer, Clean Coal, Climate Change, Copenhagen, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Congress, Obama, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Clean Air Act, Nuclear Power, Green News
William S. Becker

It is perverse public policy to tell the nation's principal environmental watchdog it can't do anything about pollutants that have been officially declared a threat to public health and welfare.

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A Clean Energy Moment: Where Hope and History Rhyme

Margie Alt | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Ed Markey, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Waxman-Markey, Henry Waxman, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Clean Air Act, Climate Change, Obama Climate Change, Green News
Margie Alt

Is the climate bill so compromised that we who care about clean energy and the fate of the planet should have opposed it? There are three main reasons why, despite its imperfections, we had to support it.

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California Dreamin': EPA Grants Landmark Waiver on Greenhouse Gases

David Doniger | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Obama Administration, Clean Air Act, California, Pollution, Global Warming, Clean Cars, Green News
David Doniger

The Environmental Protection Agency is putting the federal seal of approval on California's leadership in cleaning up global warming pollution from our cars, SUVs, pickups, and minivans.

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Waterkeeper 10th Anniversary Conference and Gala Event with Bill Clinton and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kevin George | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Columbia-River, Bill Clinton, National Geographic, Emily Deschanel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Lexus Hybrid Living, Changing Our World, Waterkeeper Alliance, Green Living, Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D, Liv Tyler, Clean Air Act, Rosario Dawson, Environmental Protection Agency, Anjelica Huston, Stella McCartney, Youtube, Yann-Arthus-Bertrand, Enviromentalism, Department of Energy, Cameron Diaz, Fox News Channel, Green News
Kevin George

Our values are changing from profits and competition, to collaboration and community, focused on philanthropic giving for environmental and social responsibility.

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Ryan Grim

Big Coal Using Climate Change Bill To Roll Back Clean Air Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clean Air Act, Repealing Clean Air Act, Climate Change, Global Warming, Coal Industry Clean Air Act, Clean Coal, Transparency, Politics News

A climate change compromise that erodes provisions of the Clean Air Act has supporters worried Democrats are being too generous to coal companies and ...

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Obama's New California-Based Climate Policy: Six Key Things To Know

William Bradley | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Fran Pavley, Steve Westly, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gray Davis, Renewable Energy, Earth Day, Clean Air Act, California, Greenhouse Effect, Epa, Tesla, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Jerry Brown, Dick Cheney, Greenhouse Gases, George W. Bush, Elon Musk, Fabian Nunez, Tony Blair, Green News
William Bradley

Obama announced Tuesday that he is making California's standard for greater vehicle fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions the new national standard.

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EPA & Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

Sandra Thompson | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Epa, Biofuels, CAFE Standards, Clean Air Act, Greenhouse Gases, Ethanol, Green News
Sandra Thompson

The goal of both EPA and industry should be better biofuels and not necessarily more biofuels. This can be accomplished in partnership from industry and the scientific community.

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Born in Wartime, Earth Day Unified the Nation

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day, Rachel Carson, Clean Water Act, Epa, Mercury, Ddt, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

Arriving suddenly -- as a gift whose time had come -- it offered folks something to unite around: the idea of an entire planet, our home, in peril.

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Terms of Endangerment: EPA to Cut Global Warming Pollution

David Doniger | Posted 05.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Globalwarming, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Endangerment, Clean Air Act, American Clean Energy and Security Act, President Obama, Green News
David Doniger

NRDC salutes President Obama and Administrator Jackson for their actions to tackle global warming. We will work with them to carry out the existing Clean Air Act.

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EPA: Carbon Dioxide Endangers Human Health

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Epa, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Clean Air Act, Green News
Bruce Nilles

There is no longer a question of if -- or even when -- the U.S. will act on global warming. President Obama is following through on his campaign promise to show American leadership on global warming.

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Keeping Clean Energy, Public Comments on the Table

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Clean Energy, Coal, Sierra Club, Washington, Centralia Coal Power Plant, Gov-Christine-Gregoire, Dan Ritzman, Christine Gregoire, Gov Christine Gregoire, TransAlta, Green Energy, Clean Air Act, Gov. Christine Gregoire, Green News
Bruce Nilles

It's hard to know what to think when this whole process has been conducted behind closed doors, but it's hard to believe that this process is in the people's best interest.

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Rod Bremby: Moving Towards a Renewable Future, Despite Big Coal's Backlash

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Supreme Court, Holcomb, Carbon Emissions, Massachusetts v. EPA, Heather Mueller, Co2, Green Energy, Pollution, Coal, Clean Air Act, Politics, Rod Bremby, Electricity, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gases, Roderick Bremby, Department of Health and Environment, Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Sunflower Electric, Global Warming, Simran Sethi, Kansas, Green News
Simran Sethi

Roderick Bremby, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, is a force of nature. He stood up to big coal interests in Kansas and, quite simply, said "no."

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What's The Matter With Kansas? The Fight Against Big Coal Hits the State Legislature, with National Repercussions.

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Supreme Court, Energy, Carbon Emissions, HB 2182, Air Quality Permit, Massachusetts v. EPA, Greenhouse Gas, Utilities, House Bill, Heather Mueller, Colorado, Kathleen Sebelius, Scott Allegrucci, Coal, Clean Air Act, Epa, Climate and Energy Project, Climate Change, Mercury, Roderick Bremby, Sunflower Electric Cooperative, Global Warming, Simran Sethi, Kansas, Gpace, Holcomb, Cep, Green News
Simran Sethi

If built, the plants in Holcomb, Kansas will belch out about 11 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, to become the largest new source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

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Cleaner Cars -- The Race to the Top?

David Doniger | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Automakers, Gas Prices, Environmental Protection Agency, Gas, Bush Administration, California, Chrysler, General Motors, The New York Times, Epa, Environment, New York Times, Ford, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Auto Manufacturers, Cars, Green News
David Doniger

The new administration understands that higher pollution and mileage standards will help curb global warming, cut our dangerous dependence on oil, and save billions at the pump.

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Study: Air Pollution Shortens US Life Span

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Smog, Pollution, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Green News

LOS ANGELES — Cleaner air over the past two decades has added nearly five months to average life expectancy in the United States, according to a...

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In With the New

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, George Bush Barack Obama, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama, Politics News
Michael DeJong

Presidents come in various shapes and sizes, ages, disciplines and principles. But what many of them seem to have in common is their unwavering obsession with cleanliness...literally or figuratively.

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