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692 mentions for topic: Climate Advocacy
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“Recent articles in the New York Times and the Raleigh News & Observer suggested that North Carolina and its governor, Bev Perdue, may have played a key role in halting White House efforts to ratchet up the current ozone air standards.”
“We are disheartened by the ongoing devastation in the Gulf. Tens of millions of gallons of oil are still spewing into the Gulf. Enough is enough.”
“As a mother who has held my young asthmatic child as she struggled to breathe, I am sincerely grateful that Rep. Shuler cast a vote on behalf of her and the 200,000 other children in North Carolina that suffer from asthma, instead of joining some of his colleagues who supported the profits of our largest polluters”
Patrick Cagle, executive director of JobKeeper Alliance, criticizes environmental groups including SACE for what he characterizes as misleading public statements about utility rates and coal power in Alabama. Cagle argues that GASP and allied environmental organizations…
A coalition of 90 environmental, health, sporting, and faith-based organizations, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, called on Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to substantially reduce methane emissions from oil and…
“Efficiency, if done right, could actually reduce people's bills. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that people are necessarily going to pay, on the whole, more money.”
“Putting a price on carbon will raise the price of electricity, there's no doubt about that, but you can offset that with efficiency and conservation”
“The worst oil disaster ever in this nation should have been a call to arms, provoking Clean Water Act-level legislation. Nothing like that has happened.”
A letter to the editor from Jenna Garland of the Southern Energy Network criticizes Rep. Paul Broun's vote to block EPA updates to Clean Air Act standards, arguing it prioritizes polluters over public health. The piece…
The EPA held listening sessions in February 2011 to gather public input on proposed carbon dioxide regulations for power plants and oil refineries under the Clean Air Act. Seandra Rawls of the Southern Alliance for Clean…
“It is absolutely unacceptable that your garbage is more regulated than ash from a coal-fired plant”
Anne Davis argues that the Clean Air Act has successfully protected public health while supporting economic growth, citing EPA data showing the 1990 Amendments will prevent 230,000 early deaths by 2020 with $2 trillion in economic…
“We would get cleaner forms of energy that would create jobs and lower consumer bills, and also mitigate some of the changes to climate change that we know are coming”
Editorial arguing that the economic crisis should not be used as an excuse to delay action on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Discusses President Obama's cap-and-trade proposal and highlights Tennessee's leadership in renewable energy…
“Our analysis of government and academic data shows that South Carolina has the resources to meet this goal, and doing so will create jobs.”
