Natural Resources Defense Council

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• Syngas With Carbon Capture at Cook Inlet

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  As the nation looks for ways to burn coal without producing so much carbon dioxide, developers, researchers, and environmentalists are looking at underground coal gasification, or U.C.G., with cautious optimism.
  4 days ago

• Groups Push U.S. and China on Carbon Capture and Storage Technology

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  Three prominent American research organizations that are pushing for greater cooperation between the U.S. and China on developing carbon capture technology and the creation of a market for carbon.
  6 days ago

• NRDC Announces Second Annual Growing Green Awards

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 510
  The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has just announced its second annual Growing Green Awards for 2010. Do you know someone who has made extraordinary contributions to the sustainable food world? (And, I’m not sure being a good eater meets any of the criteria.) If you do, nominate them to be honored ...
  1 week ago

• Old Ships Exempt From New Pollution Rules

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  The Environmental Protection Agency has opted to exempt 13 Great Lakes steamships from a new rule requiring freighters operating in coastal and inland waters to move to low-sulfur diesel.
  1 week ago

• F.T.C. Proposes New Light Bulb Label

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  The Federal Trade Commission introduced a proposed new consumer label for light bulbs -- a product category that is generating a lot of confusion.
  1 week ago

• At Solar Conference, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sees Tide Turning For Clean Energy

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  In a barn-burning speech on Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unleashed an attack on the coal industry, and later chatted with Green Inc.
  1 week ago

• EPA to Set Pollution Rules for Oil- and Coal-Fired Plants

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  We talk a lot about carbon emissions here at TakePart, mostly, I’d think, because they’re the main focus of a lot of efforts to curb climate change. However, carbon isn’t the only dangerous pollutant that gets pumped into the environment, and luckily, the good people at the Environmental Protection Agency ...
  1 week ago

• Sustainable Food Awards

  
  Suddenly Frugal Blog — Authority: 124
  Know someone who contributes to the sustainable food world? Then nominate him/her for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Growing Green Awards 2010. There are four categories for people to enter: Food Producer Business Leader Thought Leader Water Steward Winners receive $10,000. Not too shabby! The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morning Bell: The Transparent Costs of Cap and Trade

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  On June 26th of this year, the House of Representatives narrowly passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. More commonly known as the Waxman-Markey bill (named after bill sponsors Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), the 1,427-page bill tries to control global temperatures by creating a ...
  2 weeks ago

• EPA to Issue Strict Rules for U.S. Power Plant Air Toxics

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 413
  Deadline of November 2011 for EPA rules to cut power plant toxic air pollution emissions October 23, 2009  Washington, DC – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to adopt rules reducing toxic air pollution from the nation’s coal- and oil-burning power plants, by November 2011, according to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alaska Vows To Fight Polar Bear Protection With Lawsuits, Disses Climate Change

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 597
  Now that the polar bear is about to receive over 128 million acres of critical habitat designation, the state of Alaska is taking legal action to challenge the decision. Following the announcement that threatened polar bears are set to receive over 128 million acres of critical habitat designation, Alaska Governor ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alaska Vows To Fight Polar Bear Protection With Lawsuits, Disses Climate Change

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Now that the polar bear is about to receive over 128 million acres of critical habitat designation, the state of Alaska is taking legal action to challenge the decision. Following the announcement that threatened polar bears are set to receive over 128 million acres of critical habitat designation, Alaska Governor ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mayor’s Environmental Record: Grand Plans and Small Steps Forward

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and former Vice President Al Gore painted a roof in September to reflect heat and save energy.
  2 weeks ago

• What is Missing: Maya Lin’s “The Extinction Project”

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 426
  Ten years ago, Maya Lin wrote that she was officially retiring from ‘‘the monument business.’’ After completing the landmark Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C., 1982), the artist and architect designed three major civic works commemorating significant American passages: the Civil Rights Memorial ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shell Oil Receives Alaskan Offshore Drilling Rights

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  There was quite a bit of political wrangling and legal maneuvering leading up to this, but it seems that the federal Minerals Management Service has granted Royal Dutch Shell (Shell Oil to you and me) rights to drill off the Alaskan shore in the Beaufort Sea . Though Shell still needs an air permit to drill from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Toyota Seeks a Short-Range Plug-In Hybrid for the Long Haul

  
  MixedPower.com — Authority: 103
  Toyota Motor Corp. is on track to start testing the prototypes for its first crack at plug-in hybrid cars later this year, a spokeswoman said yesterday. By Jan. 1, the company expects to release 500 plug-in versions of its Prius onto American, European and Japanese roads, said Toyota spokeswoman Cindy Knight. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pebble Mine Versus Bristol Bay

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 131
  The fight over the Pebble Mine project near Alaska’s Bristol Bay is back on. Leading the fight against the plans for one of the biggest gold and copper mines in the world is a alliance of local fisherman, conservationists, and the Natural Resources Cefense Council. Here’s what they are fighting to prevent . ...
  3 weeks ago

• Udall introduces new ‘Good Samaritan’ water clean-up legislation

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  U.S. Sen. Mark Udall announced Wednesday that he introduced “Good Samaritan” legislation that would provide legal protection for non-profit and other groups who would cleanup water contamination issuing from abandoned mines across Colorado. Sen. Mark Udall “In Colorado, as our cities and towns have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Restoring an Ailing River in California

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  For the first time in 60 years, water will flow through two long stretches of the San Joaquin River, a waterway that has been transformed -- and often run dry -- by engineering and agricultural, industrial and urban development.
  3 weeks ago

• Navajos, Hopi Nations: Environmental Groups No Longer Welcome on Lands

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 524
  It warms my heart in some ways when I see environmental groups getting their just desserts, as they say. “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord” but still, you have to admit, it’s still a bit sweet. The Navajo and Hopi Tribes are standing together in declaring that environmental groups are no longer welcome on ...
  4 weeks ago

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