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691 mentions for topic: Climate Advocacy
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission postponed at least 19 nuclear licensing decisions in response to a petition filed by 24 environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, which urged a freeze on licensing until…
“We are about six weeks ahead of last year's pace as far as ozone. We've just had this smoggy mess hanging over us.”
Op-ed by Lyle Lipke encouraging citizens to participate in TVA's upcoming public meetings on the agency's 25-year operating plan. The author argues these meetings are legitimate opportunities for public comment on TVA's power generation methods, not…
“It is my greatest hope that 2020 will bring a meaningful response to the climate crisis. This existential threat to the state of Florida requires the Tampa Bay region to both adapt to impacts underway and, more importantly, dramatically reduce the dangerous carbon pollution driving the problem.”
Conservation groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy urged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to protect Big Cypress National Preserve from oil exploration and development. The coalition asked the governor to assess permanently protecting the preserve…
“unfortunately, that's the way the game's played”
“Miami Beach has already spent $1 million on stormwater and pumps and raising roads. The city of Miami passed a $400 million bond deal, $192 million is going to sea-level rise. Miami-Dade County in its five-year capital plan has identified more than $20 billion that is going to go to what they call resiliency. Make no mistake that climate change impacts the pillars of Florida's economy: our tourism, agriculture, real estate, our ports, and that includes our boating and fishing, we spend a lot of time boating here. In short, Floridians are feeling the heat and paying the price.”
“It's key to have local governments commit to meaningful targets to move the needle backwards on carbon emissions. It's key to have cities like Miami show leadership. It shows the state of Florida, that has yet to take on any targets toward carbon emissions, that it's possible and it's important to do to avoid the worst implication of climate change.”
A Tennessee delegation presented a report to federal regulators in Cincinnati claiming that air pollution regulations are not being adequately enforced, citing research showing that pollution from coal-fired power plants like Bull Run shortens hundreds of…
The National Parks Conservation Association and Tennessee Clean Air Task Force launched a summer Clean Air Campaign at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, setting up informational booths and circulating petitions calling for federal 4-pollutant legislation to…
Forest Bradley-Wright, energy efficiency director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, argues that energy efficiency is a cost-effective and climate-critical strategy that utilities have underinvested in due to outdated business models. The op-ed advocates for…
Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist notified the EPA that all monitored ozone regions in Tennessee are out of compliance with new federal clean air regulations, despite the state achieving 99% compliance under previous standards. The stricter regulations…
“You can't come into a community and say, 'Hey, wake up. Look at what's wrong.' You have to learn the community. When you say this is such a backward and slow place, you put people on the fences because you're making them feel right away that they're ignorant and don't care about the community.”
“Everything I've learned about the project so far raises a lot of concerns for me”
“Global warming science is not "unsettled." A 2001 National Academy of Sciences report commissioned by the Bush administration found that greenhouse gases are building up as a result of human activities, causing temperatures to rise.”
