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This Weekend on Capital District Green Scene

Updated: 2012-06-29 23:04:38

State lawmakers tacked a few environmental issues _ like beefing up funding for the Environmental Protecton Fund and ordering public notice be given after sewage spills taint rivers and other water bodies _ but let a few others go in the last days of the legislative session this year. Hear assembly member Robert Sweeney, chairman [...]

Landmark Court Decision Promotes a Carbon-Smart Economy: Another Look at This Week’s Ruling on Climate Protections

Updated: 2012-06-29 20:49:43

By now, you’ve surely heard all about this week’s historic court decision upholding EPA’s efforts to reduce climate pollution. I hope you also had a chance to read my colleague Steve Hamburg’s post about how the decision reaffirmed the value of science in public policy. There is one aspect of the court’s ruling that we [...]

Talking Climate, Online in Real Time

Updated: 2012-06-29 20:33:45

Stanford professor is using new tools to hang out and chat Continue reading →

Heat Wave Adds to Colorado Wildfire Woes

Updated: 2012-06-28 00:19:20

Record-breaking heat combined with drought create ideal conditions for wildfire Continue reading →

Quick Link: Appeals Court Upholds EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rules

Updated: 2012-06-27 00:19:38

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. ruled in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency today, agreeing with the EPA that greenhouse gases pose a risk to people’s health and welfare. The court also backed the EPA up on its rules on tailpipe emissions and large industrial polluters. California filed briefs in support of … Continue reading →

A Great Day for Clean Air: Court Upholds EPA Actions to Reduce Climate Pollution

Updated: 2012-06-26 22:47:26

Today is a great day for climate progress in America. Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a unanimous, strong and clear opinion affirming the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) historic measures to reduce harmful climate pollution. The court’s opinion held that EPA’s climate protections are firmly rooted in [...]

EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standard — One Step Closer to Policy Disaster

Updated: 2012-06-25 20:51:47

Today (June 25th) is the deadline for submitting comments on the EPA’s proposed Carbon Pollution Standard Rule, which will establish first-ever New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil-fuel electric generating units. The proposed standard is 1,000 lbs of CO2 per megawatt hour (MWh). The EPA claims that 95% of all new natural [...]

Sea Level Rise Will Hit Calif. Harder Than Rest of the West

Updated: 2012-06-23 00:32:12

New study zeroes in on sea level rise on the West Coast, finds variation based on location Continue reading →

* UPDATED * This Weekend on Capital Green Scene

Updated: 2012-06-22 23:04:10

State lawmakers tacked a few environmental issues _ like beefing up funding and ordering public notice be given after sewage spills taint rivers and other water bodies _ but let a few others go in the last days of the legislative session this year. Hear Marcia Bystryn, executive director of the New York League of [...]

Fracking The Movie(s)

Updated: 2012-06-22 17:39:01

HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of Environmentalism DVD Environmentalism as Religion Environmentalism can be deadly TEN MYTHS of Global Warming A page of QUOTES AN OPEN LETTER from the site editor MY NEW E-BOOK JUST PUBLISHED March 2012 Power Politics reveals that pretty much everything we have been told about energy just isn't true . Available now . Click to go to Amazon Kindle Store UK just 3.23 or Kindle Store US just 4.99 and other E-publishers soon . nbsp An excellent , readable book for anyone who wants to know the real implications of climate

University Sustainability

Updated: 2012-06-22 10:54:58

My 17 year old son and I are looking at colleges. Nice, expensive, four year universities with lots of amenities, including multiple LEED certified buildings, local food cafeterias, campus composting plans, and active student involvement in sustainable projects. Yet, none of these facts have been shared on any of the tours I have attended. [...]

Zooming in on L.A.’s Warming Climate

Updated: 2012-06-22 05:51:05

First-of-its-kind study breaks down predictions for 27 L.A. microclimates Continue reading →

Why It Matters: the Senate Vote on a Toxic Resolution

Updated: 2012-06-21 18:23:29

When the Senate voted down S.J Res. 37 by a margin of 53 to 46 yesterday, we at EDF cheered. The measure would have nixed the new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that were just finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Those new standards are one of the most important steps EPA has ever taken to [...]

Can Cutting Carbon Fuel Growth?

Updated: 2012-06-20 20:38:51

The perennial debate returns, this time at a symposium on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Continue reading →

Letter to Tom Clynes at Popular Science

Updated: 2012-06-20 17:24:37

I am simply amazed at the tone and lack of balance in your story called “the Battle” in the recent issue of Popular Science. More than anything, its incredible to me that a magazine with “science” in the title could dismiss the actual scientific arguments made by skeptics in something like two dozen words, while [...]

Water From Above and Below Likely Culprit in SoCal Landslide

Updated: 2012-06-20 01:50:42

Rain, irrigation and residential development contributed to November's San Pedro Slide Continue reading →

Massive Twitterstorm demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies underway

Updated: 2012-06-18 15:16:52

A 24-hour “storm” against fossil fuel subsidies was launched today by 350.org, Avaaz, Greenpeace, and other environmental organizations on the popular social network site Twitter. The event is expected to involve hundreds of thousands of people from around the world …

A Response to Popular Ad Hominem, err Science, Magazine on Global Warming Skeptics

Updated: 2012-06-18 06:48:28

My new column is up at Forbes.com, and addresses the most recent Popular Science hit piece on climate skeptics: I thought I knew what “science” was about: the crafting of hypotheses that could be tested and refined through observation via studies that were challenged and replicated by the broader community until the hypothesis is generally [...]

RGGI Cap Lowered?

Updated: 2012-06-18 01:58:46

Last night Pressconnects.com reported on a bill to lower the cap on RGGI and use the proceeds to benefit the communities effected by the closure of coal fired power plants. The draft bill entitled ”Clean Energy and Economic Revitalization Act of 2012″, also includes solar incentives, and provisions to clarify the state’s net-metering law. According to [...]

Methane game upgrade

Updated: 2012-06-14 20:37:20

Walter Anthony et al (2012) have made a major contribution to the picture of methane emissions from thawing Arctic regions. Not a game-changer exactly, but definitely a graphics upgrade, bringing the game to life in stunningly higher resolution (/joke). Katey Walter Anthony draws upon her previous field findings that methane emissions from the Arctic landscape [...]

Updated: This Weekend on Capital Green Scene

Updated: 2012-06-14 17:34:17

Note to readers: It took awhile, but the audio files for last week’s Capital Green Scene are now available for your listening pleasure. Thanks. Mike Huber Our guest will be Ellen Tuzzolo, executive director of Friend of Camp Little Notch, a former Girl Scout camp in the Adirondacks of northern Washington County. After the Girl [...]

The Road From Rio

Updated: 2012-06-14 04:17:07

Let’s start with the big picture. It was twenty years ago that the first Earth Summit was convened in Rio de Janeiro. That remarkable gathering of nations produced several amazing agreements, including an Agenda for the 21st Century, the Rio Declaration on the Environment and Development, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [...]

Tick, Tick, Tick

Updated: 2012-06-13 15:59:15

As the clock winds down on the 2012 legislative session, environmentalists are looking at a year with potentially no environmental victories (unless stopping bad bills counts). So far, the biggest environmental bill that has passed both houses is one to protect and manage seagrass. What’s extraordinary about this is that we are in an election [...]

Go Team Energy Star

Updated: 2012-06-13 14:03:22

With Father’s Day coming up this weekend, here is a fun energy efficiency activity for Dad’s and kids to learn about energy efficiency together. The U.S. Department of Energy, through their Energy Star program, has created a kid friendly, interactive website that helps kids and their Dad’s find their inner Lorax. The site teaches kids [...]

Obama's LOST Legacy: A new world order

Updated: 2012-06-11 16:56:42

President Obama is determined ot leave a lasting legacy - even if it is one that puts in place an anti-democratic new world order via US ratification of (that which Reagan rejected) the UN's Law of the Sea. For the full story go to The Commentator (UK) or Energy Tribune (US).

Defending the “Consensus” in Other Scientific Fields

Updated: 2012-06-04 15:37:40

Readers will likely find some parallels here to climate science: A number of studies dispute whether cutting back on salt consumption to government-recommended levels is really healthier. Gary Taubes wrote a long opinion piece in the NY Times this Sunday highlighting evidence that eating too little salt can actually increase mortality from heart disease. [...]