This post was co-authored by Ulla-Britt Reeves and Toni Reale As the Gulf oil disaster worsens by the hour beyond epic proportions, our nation’s fuel consumption from vehicles takes on entirely new urgency in any attempt we make to reduce our oil consumption. On May 21st, President Obama responded to that urgency and drew an [...]
Earlier today, the Senate voted by a margin of 53 to 47 to reject a resolution sponsored by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (S.J. Res 26). This resolution was aptly named the “Dirty Air Act,” since it would have blocked the Clean Air Act rules that safeguard human health and the environment. I find it outrageous [...]
Guest Blog by Debbie Attias Last weekend, a group of cyclists and local activists got together for a picnic at Biscayne National Park. This wasn’t just any picnic, though…. From this park, you can see Turkey Point, Florida Power & Light’s nuclear power plant. Our picnic in sight of this plant was part of a [...]
Guest Blog by Dr. Enid Sisskin The wait is over. For the last six weeks we’ve waited and wondered when we in Florida would start seeing the physical impacts of the Gulf disaster. In spite of all of our efforts to keep rigs off of Florida’s beaches we see now that no matter how far [...]
In a preliminary announcement on May 4, EPA proposed two distinctly different options for regulating the toxic mess left behind from burning coal at fossil plants. . . Given all the evidence about the dangers of coal ash, its a simple choice between Subtitle C’s toxic waste regulations and Subtitle D’s household garbage guidelines.
This post was co-authored by Seandra Rawls and Marcus Strong, Clean Energy Policy intern for the summer of 2010. The sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the uncontrollable oil leak that resulted is already being called the nation’s worst environmental disaster. For a region already battling poverty and still recovering from Hurricane [...]
Last week, Jen Rennicks offered a blog for our readers about taking political actions to stop future offshore oil drilling as a response to our nation’s largest, most horrific environmental disaster of all time. But let’s take this a little further – where it can really hit home – to you – to me, to [...]
