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• Problems With Port Of Long Beach Settlement With ATA

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 636
  My blog posts of October 19 and 28 about the Port of Long Beachs settlement of the trucking industrys lawsuit against it generated two canned responses and a number of real ones.  I also received a "Dear David" letter from Nick Sramek, President of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners.  Below is the response ...
  19 hours ago

• Negative health impacts of freeway expansion: A NO BRAINER!

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 636
  The California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) wants to dramatically expand the 18 mile stretch of the I-710 freeway that runs from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to East Los Angeles, through mostly urban, low-income, minority neighborhoods. Due to very questionable projections from the Ports that, ...
  3 days ago

• Ghost Fleet Images

  
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  [IMG: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mwall/media/2009.01.13-14.SBRF%20Inspection.MEW%20Photo26.jpg][IMG: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mwall/media/2009.01.13-14.SBRF%20Inspection.MEW%20Photo17.jpg][IMG: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mwall/media/2009.01.13-14.SBRF%20Inspection.MEW%20Photo16.jpg]
  3 days ago

• KlimaForum09: The People’s Climate Summit (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  While there may be some question about who will attend the UN Climate Change Conference, and what they will accomplish ,  you can be sure that the public will have an opportunity to discuss climate change in Copenhagen at the KlimaForum09. Billed as The People’s Climate Summit, the free event will ...
  3 days ago

• Is Leaving It All Up to Insurance Companies the Best Way Forward on PAYD?

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 636
  Last month, the California Department of Insurance finalized and released new regulations permitting California insurance companies to offer their customers the option of verifying the miles they drive.  This has been called “Pay As You Drive Insurance,” even though there is nothing in the regulations that more ...
  3 days ago

• Developing Countries Threaten To Walk Out of Climate Summit

  
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  rolando.pujols Flickr photostream Developing countries have threatened to walk out of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen if rich nations did not commit to greater reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and more funding for climate costs. While I can understand being  frustrated by talk that the ...
  3 days ago

• Companies Launch New Initiative to Show Broad Business Support for Climate Legislation

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 636
  Yesterdays news that clean energy and climate legislation moved out of the EPW committee was a welcome development. Even though a number of opponents of action decided to sit out the vote, theres plenty of support for moving a bill forward. And there was another sign that more and more businesses support legislative ...
  3 days ago

• The Repower America Wall: Voice Your Support for Clean Energy and Climate Action

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  The Repower America Wall , a new multimedia campaign from the Alliance for Climate Protection,  invites you to join thousands of people across the country in voicing your support for action on clean energy and climate change.  The virtual wall is a stunning and powerful visual testament to strengthening national ...
  4 days ago

• New York City: Come Out and Tell the State to Keep Our Water Clean

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 636
  First, some good news.  Responding to the calls of concerned folks across the state, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation yesterday extended the public comment period until December 31 on its draft environmental impact statement for natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation, which includes ...
  4 days ago

• Norway and Sweden Push For Back-Up Plan If Climate Talks Fail

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  rickremingtons Flickr photostream/Creative Commons If the UN Climate Change Conference this December fails to produce a legally binding global climate deal, Norway and Sweden are pushing for a follow-up conference in early 2010 to finalize a new treaty.  While having a back-up plan seems like a good idea, ...
  5 days ago

• German Chancellor Angela Merkel Pushes Congress on Climate Change

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to a special bicameral (update: the correct adjective here is “joint”) session of Congress, the first German leader to do so since 1957. And, when she addressed Congress, Chancellor Merkel told our august legislators that they need to get their act together on ...
  5 days ago

• Climate Change Could Kill 250,000 Children Next Year

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  wsilvers Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Climate change could kill 250,000 children next year alone, and the numbers are likely to rise in years to come as climate-related famine, disease and other dangers escalate, according to Save The Children . The new report from the international charity is certainly one ...
  6 days ago

• Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC Rob Perks's Blog — Authority: 457
  What is up with the U.S. Department of Interior these days?  Unlike the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which appears to be walking the walk on mountaintop removal coal mining thanks to EPA Administrator Lisa Jacksons leadership, its quite another story over at DOI.  How else to explain the latter agencys ...
  6 days ago

• Video: Al Gore Praises the Copenhagen Conference

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Al Gore, former Vice President and current environmental hero, sat down with Katie Couric yesterday for her online program @KatieCouric to discuss all things environmental and green. He even had a few things to say about one of our current favorite topics here at TakePart, the Copenhagen Conference on Climate ...
  6 days ago

• Senate Committee to Proceed On Climate Change Bill Without Republicans

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Last week, we told you that Senate Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee had planned on boycotting work sessions on the Senate’s climate change bill , in order to stall the bill from leaving the committee, and thus halting a vote on the Senate floor. Well, the first work sessions were scheduled ...
  6 days ago

• Florida county links density & conservation to restrict mining, protect water supply

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 636
  Lee County, Florida (Fort Myers) is moving forward with an innovative plan to use clustered, dense development instead of large-lot zoning to protect its water supply.  Under current zoning the southeastern portion of the Gulf coast county has been threatened by the spread of both limerock mining and large-lot ...
  1 week ago

• Nepal’s Cabinet To Hold Climate Meeting On Mt. Everest

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  joehastings Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Nepal’s Cabinet plans to hold a meeting at the base camp of Mt. Everest to highlight the threat of climate change and rising global temperatures, which is causing glaciers in the Himalayas to melt at an alarming rate. The climate summit just below the world’s ...
  1 week ago

• Cap and Trade Will Raise Gas Prices 13 Cents a Gallon

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Oil companies aren’t exactly thrilled when it comes to the proposed cap-and-trade system of selling carbon credits the federal government has proposed, claiming that it will just cost way, way too much money to buy the credits, demand for gas would go down, and business would be ruined. But wait, you might say. Why ...
  1 week ago

• The Elders’ Climate Change Picnic With Their Grandchildren (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  myklroventines Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The Elders, a independent group of eminent global leaders , gathered with their grandchildren last Thursday for a picnic to show the importance of uniting generations to address the threat of climate change. More than just a charming photo-op, the get together ...
  1 week ago

• E.U. Leaders Pledge Funds to Combat Global Warming

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Last month, a report came out that suggested developing nations will need at least $500 billion a year to fight the impact of climate change. Well, a gaggle of European Union leaders got together late last week, and set the bar instead at 100 billion euros (let’s say about $148 billion American). But on the ...
  1 week ago

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