Oct. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Southern California Edison’s controversial plan to restart one of the damaged San Onofre nuclear reactors is rolling the nuclear dice -- a dangerous experiment that gambles with the safety of millions in Southern California.
Read More »Oct. 4, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Southern California Edison’s plan to restart one of its crippled San Onofre reactors is a reckless gamble that flies in the face of the utility’s claim
Read More »Oct. 1, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Many believe Edison puts profits ahead of public health and safety LOS ANGELES, CALIF. -- Southern California Edison is expected to submit a plan any day to restart the crippled San Onofre nuclear power plant, maintaining that one of its ailing t...
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Sep. 20, 2012 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Arctic summer sea ice extent reached an all-time record low on September 16. The rapid nature of the changes in the region has many scientists concerned, and the implications on weather systems and marine ecosystems could be profound. The shipping...
Read More »Sep. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6213, the "No More Solyndras Act," which allows uneconomical and dirty coal and nuclear projects to remain eligible for loan guarantees through the Department of Energy’s Tit...
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Sep. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
The dog days of summer haven’t done much to slow down TransCanada’s propulsion towards construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The Canadian oil corporation last week unveiled its “new” proposed route through...
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Sep. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Since my last post on the stupidity of using food for fuel, almost 300 members of Congress, state governors, organizations and private citizens have written to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson about our federal biofuels m...
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Sep. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
For 10 days, the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a colossal, job-destroying free trade agreement -- will be negotiated in secret in Leesburg, Virginia. This massive trade agreement would threaten essential environmental protections as a favor to expl...
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Aug. 30, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
This week the extent of Arctic sea ice is at an unprecedented historic low, the smallest amount of ice cover since satellite measurement began in 1979. According to scientists, dramatic summer sea ice losses in five of the past six years, continuo...
Read More »Aug. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a partial waiver for E15 -- a 15 percent ethanol fuel blend -- allowing it to be used in light-duty ve...
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