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  1. For 2009: Infrastructure Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Species Protection, & Secrets of the H-Bomb

    http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/nrdcnews/for_2009_infrastructure_mainte_1.html

    Frances Beinecke writes to The Washington Post in support of restoring existing infrastructure rather than investing in new bridges, roads, and pipes; the letter to the editor was arranged by Erin Allweiss... In this week's Time Magazine cover story "Wasting Our Watts," Ralph Cavanagh and David Goldstein emphasize the untapped potential of energy efficiency... …

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  2. Yes Virginia, There is a Place with More Nuclear Contamination Than Chernobyl

    http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/nrdcnews/yes_virginia_there_is_a_place.html

    John Walke explains to CNN why the Bush administration midnight regulations are so unprecedented... On NPR Morning Edition Tom Cochran delves into the history of communities surrounding the area where Russia first developed their nuclear weapons... …

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  3. Nothing says Christmas like Toxic Toys

    http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/nrdcnews/nothing_says_christmas_like_to.html

    Frances Beinecke talks, in an Environmental News Service article posted on NBC, about the appointment of Dr. Jane Lubchenco as President Elect Obama's choice to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration... Peter Lehner discusses the need for energy efficiency and what those gains can mean with McClatchy Newspapers... …

    14 days ago
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    Global warming solutions: Just the stimulation we need

    http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/clean_energy_just_...

    Perhaps more importantly, a cap-and-trade system would encourage the private sector to move the economy in a greener direction: to join with labor, scientists, government, and ordinary citizens in building a new, greener foundation for prosperity in America.

    68 days ago in Switchboard, from NRDC :: Pete Altman's Blog · Authority: 14
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    Global Warming and Pollution, they cost more to fix than to prevent.

    http://www.celebritypaycut.com/warming-activists/global-warm...

    article, Barry Nelson draws attention to unfair federal policies that discourage farmers (the main consumers of SoCal water) from taking on conservation measures… NRDC attorney Albert Huang talks about the sewage-odor problems disrupting the South Bronx Hunts Point community in the New York Daily News…In the Canadian Press, NRDC spokesperson Josh Mogerman discusses the carbon dioxide “double whammy” inherent in tar sands

    179 days ago in Celebrity Paycut - Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. · Authority: 2
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    Major Decisions Take U.S. Air Regulation back to Go

    http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2008/07/major_decis...

    for revision. But in this case Heinzerling feels “the decision seems kind of right, assuming the court’s accounting of EPA’s reasoning is accurate.” John Walke, the top air lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council, sharply disagrees. In a blog he posted on July 15, he said that if Duke hadn’t wanted to overturn CAIR then it shouldn’t have brought suit in the first place, as “any decent attorney practicing in the D.C. Circuit would know that the frequent practice in that [quite conservative] court is to

    169 days ago in Tech Talk · Authority: 19