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Call it ‘green mobility’

With an auto industry bailout careening down the pike, Climate Solutions policy director KC Golden has some vitally needed insights regarding what we need to demand from industry leader GM in return. —– We should not rescue General Motors as we know it. But Congress could use the proposed bailout as an opportunity to begin […]

Rep. Dingell’s supporters upset House Speaker

Earlier this week, members of Michigan Rep. John Dingell‘s “whip team” — the group formed to rally support behind his chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee — sent a letter to their Democratic colleagues urging them to join the team. “Please join us in our strong, unwavering support for the re-election of John Dingell […]

Enviros outline what they’d like Obama to do

Shortly after the election, a coalition of more than 30 green groups issued a list of requests to the Obama transition team, outlining the priorities on climate and energy they’d like the next president to address. Their plans are largely consistent with what Obama campaigned on, and the groups are encouraging both the president-elect and […]

Acidifying oceans need to be addressed, says litigous green group

The U.S. EPA should use the Clean Water Act to address the growing problem of ocean acidification, says the Center for Biological Diversity — and if the agency doesn’t act, it’s gonna get sued.

More on the battle with Henry Waxman over the House Energy and Commerce committee

With a secret-ballot vote by Democrats in the House of Representatives likely next week, Washington, D.C. continues to buzz over the effort by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to unseat Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) as chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell’s corporate-lobbyist friends on K Street are coyly staying off the record […]

Turn your holiday lights into LEDS

You can recycle your old incandescent holiday lights for a coupon to get safer and much more energy-efficient LEDs here.

It’s time for the G20 to focus on a global green deal

This is a guest post by Gary Gardner and Michael Renner, senior researchers with the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C. —– When leaders of the 20 largest economies gather in Washington, D.C., this week, a centerpiece of their deliberations should be a Global Green Deal that capitalizes on the current […]

Ted Turner talks with Lou Dobbs

In this epic Meeting of Blowhards, some good stuff gets said about climate and energy and related matters:

White House undercuts reduced-lead rule for factories, paper reports

The Chicago Tribune reports that officials from the White House Office of Management and Budget successfully prompted the U.S. EPA to reduce by some 60 percent the number of industrial sites that would be subject to monitoring for lead under the agency’s recently tightened lead standards.

Boat owners abandoning boats in droves, vessels leaking oil, pollutants

Owners of both commercial and recreational boats have been abandoning their vessels in droves as a poor economy, high fuel prices, poor fishing, and bad resale values have prompted them to put the boats down and back away slowly. Abandoned boats around the country have begun to clog waterways and some have become toxic messes […]