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• Clean energy in Colorado needs Governor Hickenloopers leadership

  
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  Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco   Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s signature on SB 252 to improve and expand the amount of renewable energy that utilities must ...
  4 days ago

• Mother’s Day: Political Moms Mobilize For Climate Change

  
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  It hasn’t been a great week for moving the American environmental agenda forward. On Thursday, the Republican members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works decided to boycott the vote on Gina McCarthy’s nomination . However, on a positive note, the Safe Climate Caucus , chaired by Rep. ...
  2 weeks ago

• EPA methanol hazard assessment less health protective

  
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  Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) IRIS program issued its draft Toxicological review of methanol for public comment and external peer review. The document provides an assessment of the noncancerous health effects of chronic methanol ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mother’s Day: Political Moms Mobilize For Climate Change

  
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  By Marcia G. Yerman It hasn’t been a great week for moving the American environmental agenda forward. On Thursday, the Republican members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works decided to boycott the vote on Gina McCarthy’s nomination . However, on a positive note, the Safe Climate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Community Health, Parks and Recreation for All – Reform Park Funding Statewide AB 1359, KCET TV, KPCC Radio,

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 472
  Green Justice reports The City Project’s Assistant Director and Counsel Ramya Sivasubramanian testified before the California Assembly Committee on Local Government to promote community health, parks and recreation for all through reform of Quimby park funding on May 8, 2013 (AB 1359 – Hernandez). KCET’s SoCal ...
  2 weeks ago

• KPCC Southern California Public Radio What about parks? L.A. Mayor’s Race

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 472
  Listen to the complete story on KPCC Southen California Public Radio: Los Angeles mayoral candidates talk about improving quality of life, and for many residents that translates into access to parks and recreation programs. But today’s parks system is financially stressed. It’s a story of closed pools, locked ...
  2 weeks ago

• A United Cry Against Dams In The Amazon

  
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  "Our world was big. We have already lost enough lands. Now, its enough!" Justice Now! Join the worldwide chorus calling for justice by urging Brazils Supreme Court to rule on lawsuits against the Belo Monte Dam! SIGN THE PETITION   Follow their journey directly here. May 3, 2013 | Maíra Irigaray ...
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• Health and environmental justice advocates railroaded by LA City Council

  
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  Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California For a City Council that has gotten many things right, it was hit by a train of misinformation in its approval of BNSF’s Southern California International Gateway railyard project today.  After hours of testimony on ...
  2 weeks ago

• KCET TV Quimby and the Laws that Govern L.A. Parks May 10, 2013, 9:30 p.m. SoCal Connected

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 472
  Quimby and The Laws That Govern L.A. Parks Fri May 10 at 9:30PM on KCET-HD “An investigation into the little-known Quimby law: Ever wonder why there aren’t more parks in your LA neighborhood? It’s not a lack of money. There are millions of dollars just sitting there ready to be spent, but a little known [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Joe Biden Opposes Keystone XL Pipeline

  
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  (BuzzFeed) Ruby Cramer reports ~   Joe Biden Tells Supporter He Opposes Keystone Pipeline, But Is “In The Minority,” She Says The activist recalls a conversation on the controversial pipeline project. “He grabbed my Sierra Club hat on my head and said, Yes, I do — I share your views.” Although ...
  2 weeks ago

• Full and Fair Funding for Parks and Recreation, and a Healthier, Prosperous City

  
  The City Project Blog — Authority: 472
  KCET SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > Full and Fair Funding for Parks and Recreation, and a Healthier, Prosperous City Full and Fair Funding for Parks and Recreation, and a Healthier, Prosperous City by Robert García and Daphne P. Hsu* The budget that outgoing Mayor Antonio ...
  2 weeks ago

• Home Rule Victory in New York! - First NY Appellate Court to Rule that Towns Have Right to Zone Out Fracking.

  
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  Daniel Raichel, Legal Fellow, New York For those keeping score, today’s ruling  by the state Appellate Division in the Dryden and Middlefield cases marks the fifth and sixth victories in an undefeated winning streak for the right of New York towns to use their zoning authority to exclude ...
  3 weeks ago

• UN human rights group calls for investigation of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia

  
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  The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights recently visited West Virginia communities affected by the controversial mining practice and said allegations of health damage, water pollution, failure to protect cemeteries, and harassment of opponents should be investigated and addressed. read more
  3 weeks ago

• PADEPs Permit Review Process Public Participation Policy ... Its Back?

  
  PA Brownfields Environmental Law — Authority: 107
  Following up on my posts of February 7, 2013 and November 28, 2012 , the agenda for next weeks meeting of the Pennsylvania DEPs Environmental Justice Advisory Board includes a scheduled discussion of the status of the Departments draft Permit Review Process Public Participation Policy.  After I return from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• How cities can promote environmental justice

  
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  Maybe cities arent the best proponents of environmental justice (as of now).  Most often, cities are the scene of the crime - fires at a Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA, air pollution from the port in Wilmington, CA.  These cases and others like it impact already vulnerable communities the most, but it doesnt have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Auctions and Civil Disobedience (UPDATE)

  
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  The Christies Auction catalog with a bronze rabbit head Earlier this week I was able to watch a screening on Earth Day of Bidder 70 a new documentary which examines the story of Tim DeChristopher. He was sentenced to two years in prison, and a $10,000 fine. His crime? He attended an oil and gas lease auction and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Home Run! Appeals Court Upholds EPA Action to Stop Giant, Polluting Mountaintop Removal Mine

  
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  Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. During his confirmation hearing to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts famously analogized the role of a judge to that of a baseball umpire , saying: Umpires dont make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a ...
  4 weeks ago

• LA city council overwhelmingly supports new direction on trash

  
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  Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California In one week, the LA City Council has tackled adopting a position to  move away from coal and addressing its trash woes — talk about a productive Earth Week in LA.  On trash today, the Los Angeles City Council ...
  4 weeks ago

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