Thursday, October 08, 2009

EPA Lists Areas Violating Daily Air Pollution Requirements

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31 Locations Not Meeting 24-Hour Fine Particle Standards EPA is designating 31 areas across the country as not meeting the agency’s daily st...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

EPA Approves $1 Billion Contract To 7 Firms For 7 Years

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The Environmental Protection Agency awarded almost a billion dollar contract to seven companies to support its technology infrastructure. Th...
Friday, October 02, 2009

Brent Blackwelder's Retirement Party: Oh What A Night

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald I went to the retirement party for Dr. Brent Blackwelder, left, last night. Oh what a great...
Thursday, October 01, 2009

EPA's Lisa P. Jackson Is About To Take Center Stage

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald The Environmental Protection Agency Adminstrator Lisa P. Jackson, below left, is about to become t...

Center Supports Interior Dept's Transmission Line Plan

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Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, left, has announced the the agency expects to approve seven major, wind and solar power renewable-energy ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

EPA Proposes Best Technology Regs To Reduce GHGs

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EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced at the California Governor’s Global Climate Summit that the Agency has taken a significant step ...

The Ozone Hole Has Gotten Worse, But Should Get Better

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Image of Antarctic ozone hole (September 2006): Courtesy of NASA The hole in ozone layer is even bigger than it was at the height of the ozo...

Solar Electricity Power Towers Face Water Use Constraints

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A solar power tower, left, is a solar thermal plant that uses different technology than the photovoltaic solar panels that produce electrici...

Boxer/Kerry Climate Change Legislation Introduced Today

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Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), left, and Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John F. Kerry (D...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

EPA Unveils Framework for Chemical Management Reform

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EPA has announced core principles that outline the Obama Administration’s goals for legislative reform of this country’s chemical management...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee's Green Energy Forum

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Washington, DC Convention Center, Saturday, September 26, 2009 11am – 1pm: Center President Norris McDonald spoke at The 2009 Congresional B...
Friday, September 25, 2009

G-20 Punts On Deadline To Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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The Group of 20 (G-20) nations agreed to phase out government subsidies for the production and consumption of fossil fuels but did not inclu...

Gore-Backed Car Company Gets 1/2 Billion Dollar U.S. Loan

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Fisker Automotive Inc, is a start up car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore, right, that has just received a $529 million U.S. ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Senate Should Confirm Paul Anastas Now

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and America are being weakened by the 'hold' on the nomination of Paul Anastas to be Assis...

EPA Adds 11 Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List

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EPA also proposes to add 10 additional sites The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding 11 newhazardous waste sites that pose risks ...

The Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama at the United Nations General Assembly

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Excerpt on Climate Change: "To confront climate change, we have invested 80 billion dollars in clean energy. We have substantially incr...

EPA Releases List of Priority Drinking Water Contaminants for Regulatory Consideration

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EPA is releasing its third list of drinking water contaminants that are known or anticipated to occur in public water systems and may requir...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Future of Climate Change Legislation in the U.S. Senate

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Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator John Kerry (D-MA) are planning to introduce climate change legislation this year or early next year...

EPA Finalizes Nation’s 1st GHG Reporting System

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Monitoring to begin in 2010 On January 1, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will, for the first time, require large emitters of...

President Obama's U.N. Speech on Climate Change

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FULL SPEECH Excerpts: REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON'S CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT United Nations He...
Monday, September 21, 2009

CBO & CRS Analyze Effects of Climate Change Legislation

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CBO Shows Real Climate Impact – The Congressional Budget Office released a report late last week saying that climate legislation limiting c...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Center to Participate in CBC Annual Legislative Conference

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Center President Norris McDonald is speaking at The 2009 Congresional Black Caucus (CBC) Annual Legislative Conference's Entrepreneurshi...

DOT & EPA Propose Fuel Economy & GHG Improvements

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New Interagency Program to Address Climate Change and Energy Security U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. ...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Maryland PSC Hearing On Constellation/EdF Merger

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The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) held its second of public hearing last night in Baltimore to get input on the proposal by Const...

Kate Sheppard Leaves Grist To Freelance

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Grist magazine has lost a giant in environmental reporting-- Kate Sheppard , right. Ms. Sheppard wrote some of the most penetrating articles...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Lisa Jackson Speaks At Atlantic’s Green Intelligence Forum

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald The Atlantic held a very exciting Green Intelligence Forum ( videos ) yesterday that was cosponso...

Center Opposes Venezuelan Nuclear Plant Under Chavez

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Venezuelan dictator-in-waiting Hugo Chavez, left, wants to partner with the Russians to build a nuclear power plant. The Center opposes the ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

EPA Releases Reports on Dam Integrity Assessments at 17 Coal Ash Impoundments

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the final contractor reports assessing the structural integrity of 17 impoundments and...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

15th Annual Heinz Awards on the Environment

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Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation announced the recipients of the 15th Annual Heinz Awards , which this year, focuses singularly ...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Toxic Waters: A Series On Worsening Water Pollution

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The New York Times is running a series on the worsening pollution in American waters and the responses of regulators, entitled: " Toxi...