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Show Up and Speak Up for Climate Change Legislation

August 10, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund Leave a Comment

Congress is heading back home for the August recess this week. Apparently our Senators need to rest after they failed to take up both a clean energy and climate bill and an oil spill bill. Legislative inaction must be more tiring than I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-air-act, clean-energy, climate-bill, congress, energy, green-energy, gulf-oil-spill, nrdc-action-fund, politics-news

Coal Barons Meeting Today in Hopes of Ending All Climate Debate for a Generation

August 5, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund 1 Comment

Today, a bunch of coal executives are congregating for the West Virginia Coal Association annual meeting at the luxurious Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV. One of the primary things they will discuss is the formation of a 527 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, climate-legislation, international-coal-group, nrdc, nrdc-action-fund, politics-news, west-virginia-coal-association

Stop the Senate from Gutting the Clean Air Act!

July 28, 2010 By lowell-feld-nrdc-action-fund Leave a Comment

Fortunately, not everyone is so clueless as the U.S. Senate appears to be right now.  For instance, in yesterday's Politico, two energy investors – one Democrat, one Republican – explained what's at stake in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-air-act, clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, nrdc-action-fund, senate

My Kids Are Losers: Commentary on the Climate Debate

July 23, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund 3 Comments

The climate bill blame game has begun. When I first started writing this post about the so-called death of the climate bill, I literally pointed the finger at just about everyone, including myself. The anger poured out, and I was frank … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, nrdc-action-fund, senate

No, Senator Klobuchar, More Corn Ethanol is NOT the Answer!

July 14, 2010 By lowell-feld-nrdc-action-fund 13 Comments

*From an NRDC article published in March 2010, we learn that "the current corn ethanol tax credit is effectively costing tax payers $4.18 per gallon and is driving up grain prices."  The author, Nathanael Greene, concludes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, corn-ethanol, nrdc-action-fund, renewable-energy

Lessons from the “Enlightened Eight”: Republicans Can Vote Pro-Environment and Not Get “Tea Partied

July 14, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund 8 Comments

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 in favor of HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). Only eight Republicans - we'll call them the "Enlightened Eight" - voted "aye." These … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, congress, nrdc-action-fund, politics-news, primaries, tea-party

Murkowski Part II Rears Its Ugly Head

July 9, 2010 By lowell-feld-nrdc-action-fund 1 Comment

On June 10th, we all celebrated the defeat of the Murkowski resolution, which would have gutted the EPA's ability to regulate carbon dioxide pollution.  Why we needed to defeat Murkowski was explained well by NRDC Action … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate-change, jay-rockefeller, lisa-murkowski, nrdc-action-fund, us-senate

Edward James Olmos on the Definition of “Insanity”

July 9, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund Leave a Comment

Yesterday, the NRDC Action Fund launched a campaign featuring a powerful new ad by renowned environmental activist and celebrated actor, Edward James Olmos. In the video, which you can view here, Olmos explains what makes people - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, edward-olmos, energy, nrdc-action-fund, oil

More Nails in the Coffins of the Climate Change Deniers

July 7, 2010 By lowell-feld-nrdc-action-fund 5 Comments

As if we needed any more evidence demonstrating that anthropogenic climate change is real, that it is occurring right now, and that it poses a major threat to the planet's environment, we now have it -- in spades. Let;s begin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, environment, michael-mann, nrdc-action-fund

Remember, Cap-and-Trade Was Originally a Free-Market, Conservative Idea

July 1, 2010 By lowell-feld-nrdc-action-fund 26 Comments

In short, good things happened when we harnessed the tremendous power of the market to solve environmental problems. Today, the biggest and most pressing of those problems - identified, once again, by a massive amount of scientific research … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, clean-energy, climate-change, nrdc-action-fund

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BenDowningMABen Downing@BenDowningMA·
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Our leaders didn’t prepare us for the virus, or a shock like it, and that left all of us, but particularly the most vulnerable, exposed. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/06/nation/mass-surpasses-16000-deaths-due-covid-19/ #mapoli

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It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.

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Beautiful urban visions from @berkie1 !

Sure would help to have a robust, thriving public transit system to enable this.

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Streets that put people first, not cars - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/03/superblocks/ via @BostonGlobe

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DrEricDingEric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing·
7 Mar

Let this sink in— 5,700,000 children will be lifted out of poverty soon by President Biden’s #COVID19 relief aid passed by Congress.

Zero Republicans (House/Senate) voted for it.

Only way we passed it that Democrats won 2 senate seats for a 50-50 tie & VP Harris made it 51-50. https://twitter.com/chrislu44/status/1366524803742597120

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This deserves a lot more attention

New analysis: 13.1 million fewer Americans would be in poverty after the passage of Biden's economic relief bill

Significantly, the child poverty rate would be cut in half. That's 5.7 million fewer kids in poverty https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/2021/presidential-policy/biden-economic-relief-proposal-poverty-impact?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210228&instance_id=27598&nl=the-morning®i_id=103545475&segment_id=52539&te=1&user_id=cd59d05eab07f3403b8db65ae0fa15b3

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“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

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