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Lucia Graves wrote a new blog post: Green Groups Call On Super Committee To Ax Energy Subsidies And Tax Breaks 9 months, 2 weeks ago · View
WASHINGTON — As the congressional leaders decide on members for the new bipartisan debt-reduction super committee, green advocacy groups are already on the offensive, calling on the committee to cut billions of dollars in tax breaks and energy subsidies for the oil and gas industry. “By how voters have responded, cutting the outrageous energy subsidies to the [...]
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Lucia Graves wrote a new blog post: Peter Tosh Estate Partners With Political Advocacy Organizations 9 months, 2 weeks ago · View
WASHINGTON — The estate of reggae legend Peter Tosh has announced a series of partnerships aimed at bringing his music to a new generation of political activists. Partnering with Greenpeace, Amnesty International and other advocacy organizations, Tosh’s music will be used as a rallying cry for activists in campaigns from Greenpeace International, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy [...]
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Lucia Graves wrote a new blog post: EPA Unveils New Standards For Coal-Fired Power Plants 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules Thursday for coal-fired power plants to help curb the air pollution that has marked the eastern United States for years. The new regulations will affect power plants in 28 states and are scheduled to go into effect in 2012. They will cut millions of tons of soot and [...]
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Lucia Graves wrote a new blog post: Climate Change Skeptics Unite At Heartland Conference 10 months, 4 weeks ago · View
WASHINGTON — Prominent climate change skeptics gathered at the Heartland Institute’s sixth international conference on climate change on Friday to take on the body of scientific evidence showing that human emissions are contributing to global warming. Sen. Jim Inhofe, a famous climate change denier, was set to headline the event’s kickoff on Thursday, but canceled when he [...]
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Lucia Graves wrote a new blog post: Climate Change Skeptics Unite At Heartland Conference 10 months, 4 weeks ago · View
WASHINGTON — Prominent climate change skeptics gathered at the Heartland Institute’s sixth international conference on climate change on Friday to take on the body of scientific evidence showing that human emissions are contributing to global warming. Sen. Jim Inhofe, a famous climate change denier, was set to headline the event’s kickoff on Thursday, but canceled when he [...]
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Lucia Graves wrote a new blog post: Republican Presidential Candidates Not Courting The Green Vote 11 months, 1 week ago · View
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidates are taking aim at the Environmental Protection Agency on the campaign trail, pledging to strip it of the tools to address emissions, and other regulatory functions. Those pledges come as the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 Monday in American Electric Power v. Connecticut to deny states and environmentalists the right to sue power plants [...]
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Lucia Graves wrote a new blog post: Environmental Coalition Backs Sen. Sherrod Brown’s New Green Jobs Bill 1 year ago · View
WASHINGTON — Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) joined green jobs leaders Thursday to tout a merger of green development groups and planned advocacy for his newly introduced Strengthening Manufacturing and Rebuilding Transit (SMART) Act, which would invest in American-made transportation infrastructure. BlueGreen Alliance and Apollo Alliance decision to join forces is widely seen within the environmental community as [...]
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Lucia Graves wrote a new blog post: Wide Disparities In Public Transit Access Keep Residents From Jobs, Brookings Study Says 1 year ago · View
WASHINGTON — Seven in 10 working-age metropolitan residents live within three-quarters of a mile of a transit stop. But a new study from the Brookings Institution found that these commuters can reach only 30 percent of the jobs in their area in under 90 minutes. The report, ” Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America ,â revealed access [...]
