North Carolina Legislature Says Hear No Evil Sea No Evil
The North Carolina Legislature has officially crossed over into crazy. Two prominent bills widely reported on by the national media in recent weeks want to remove science from decision-making processes, deliberately putting…
As Hurricane Season Approaches Climate Adaptation Is More Necessary Than Ever
This blog is the fourth of a four-part series by Simon Mahan, Chris Carnevale, Jennifer Rennicks, and Ulla Reeves on hurricanes and energy. Previous blogs have focused on Hurricanes and Climate Change,…
Hurricanes and Offshore Drilling
This blog is the third of a four-part series by Simon Mahan, Chris Carnevale and Jennifer Rennicks on hurricanes and energy. Previous blogs have focused on Hurricanes and Climate Change, and Hurricanes…
Hurricanes and Climate Change
This blog is the first of a four-part series by Chris Carnevale, and Simon Mahan (former Energy Policy Manager), and Jennifer Rennicks (former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern…
Skeptics May Limit the Benefits of New Carbon Pollution Limits
This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
EPA Finally Announces Greenhouse Gas Standard
After much delay, today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the first-ever national standards to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from coal plants. The proposal aims to restrict the amount of GHG emissions…
Greenhouse Gas Regulation Not As Costly As Global Warming
Recently a contingency of 221 Members of Congress publicly sided with dirty energy interests over public health interests. These elected officials signed onto a letter penned by Georgia’s own Rep. John Barrow…
Transportation Bill is Bad Drilling Policy
This post was co-authored by Simon Mahan and Jennifer Rennicks. Last week’s passage of the U.S. House of Representatives' transportation bill deserves a brief mention on the blog today if for…
Update: U.S. Announces New Climate Change Initiative
UPDATED 4/27/12: This week, the international Climate and Clean Air Coalition that we wrote about previously (see below) adopted five initiatives for action, including "Fast action on diesel emissions including from heavy…
Asheville Dirty Coal Draws Greenpeace Ire
Early this morning Greenpeace activists scaled the 400-foot smokestack at Progress Energy's Asheville coal-fired power plant to call attention to the toxic and dangerous practice of burning coal for power. The 400MW…