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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on the annual Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 draft report. This report will be open for public comment for 30 days after the Federal Register notice is published. Continue reading EPA Seeks Public Comment on the 15th Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Environmental (Dis)Locations — a conference with religious imagination exploring environmental justice and climate change — April 8-10, 2010 at Yale University. The conference is free and open to the public. You may purchase a Saturday lunch ticket for $10 separately. Please see the instructions on the registration form. Continue reading Environmental Dislocations | Yale Divinity School The bitterly contested fight in Washington over global warming and pollution is also taking hold at the state level. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won’t, is facing legal heat from states that say new regulations will kill jobs at the worst possible time. Texas, Alabama and Virginia, all led by Republican governors, have filed petitions since December, when the EPA ruled that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide endanger human health, clearing the path for the agency to issue mandatory regulations to reduce them. via Three States Sue EPA Over Global Warming Ruling | FOXNews.com. Groups like Conservation International are among the most trusted “brands” in America, pledged to protect and defend nature. Yet as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world’s worst polluters–and burying science-based environmentalism in return. Sometimes the corruption is subtle; sometimes it is blatant. In the middle of a swirl of bogus climate scandals trumped up by deniers, here is the real Climategate, waiting to be exposed. via The Wrong Kind of Green | The Nation. GROTON, CT—The Sea Grant programs from Maine to Virginia, have been awarded $25,000 to work with NOAA offices to establish a regional network of “climate ambassadors” who will help local communities. It is one of eight Climate Engagement mini-grants from NOAA to various regions of the U.S. The grant will provide training in climate outreach to staff of NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team and Sea Grant extension agents. Because little action was taken to combat climate change at the United Nations conference last December in Copenhagen, a panel of experts speaking at Yale Law School Tuesday afternoon said there needs to be an effective strategy to ensure fast action on the issue. The panel, which was moderated by Yale Law School professor Douglas Kysar and featured Caleb Christopher, the attorney to the UN Mission to the Marshall Islands; Natural Resources Defense Council policy director David Doniger; Suffolk University professor Steven Ferrey; and Dan Esty LAW ’86, a professor at both Yale Law School and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies professor, discussed the present and future of international climate change regulation in front of an audience of about 40 at the Law School. While the panelists agreed on the need for urgent action, each expert focused on different aspects of the issue. via Climate experts express need for results | Yale Daily News. WASHINGTON — Delaware has made strides in improving its air quality, but a “national solution” is necessary to curb emissions from out-of-state power plants, the state’s top environmental official told lawmakers Thursday. The lawmakers decided to address other pollutants while climate change legislation is being debated. U.S. Sens. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who are negotiating climate change legislation with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., are among the Carper bill’s 13 co-sponsors. Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., also is a co-sponsor. via Feds targeting three pollutants | delawareonline.com. Groton – The director of the Connecticut SeaGrant program at the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut will lead efforts throughout the Northeast to establish regional networks of “climate ambassadors.” via Conn. SeaGrant ambassadors | The Day. Nine years ago, New England states joined with eastern Canadian provinces in a landmark agreement to significantly reduce greenhouse gas pollution by 2010. Now, that day of reckoning is here. New England as a whole has missed its goal by a wide margin, raising serious questions about whether the region, or the nation itself, is capable of taking the next step in the ongoing race against climate change: complying with new laws mandating steep greenhouse gas reductions. via State, region find out how hard it is to cut greenhouse gases – StamfordAdvocate. March 4 (Bloomberg) — U.S. power companies may be willing to go first with new rules to curb greenhouse-gas pollution as long as they don’t have to go alone, NRG Energy Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Crane said. via Utilities May Go First With Carbon Rules, NRG’s Crane Says – BusinessWeek. March 4 (Bloomberg) — Two of the largest U.S. power utilities are backing a compromise on U.S. climate change legislation after a broader emissions-trading proposal foundered last year. Michael Morris, chief executive officer of American Electric Power Co., and Lewis Hay, CEO of FPL Group Inc., said today at a conference in Santa Barbara, California, that they support the new effort and await details on the proposal. via Two Power Utilities Support Compromise on Climate Legislation – BusinessWeek. March 3 (Bloomberg) — The disclosure of research “missteps” hasn’t shaken the consensus that manmade emissions from burning fossil fuels are contributing to climate change, President Barack Obama’s top science adviser said. The release of scientists’ e-mails and errors in a report by a United Nations climate panel show researchers are human, John Holdren said today at an energy conference in Washington’s Maryland suburbs. The errors don’t alter the fact that carbon dioxide emissions are warming the earth, he said. via ‘Missteps’ Don’t Negate Climate Science, Obama Adviser Says – BusinessWeek. For a related story, see R.K. Pachauri’s comments to a local gathering in Branford Feb. 27, 2010, as reported in CT Environmental Headlines. This Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, you have a chance to add your voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who will be urging their senators to pass the bill as part of a 72-hour call-in campaign — a national grassroots effort by more than 30 groups. The campaign is organized by environmental organizations, labor unions, veterans groups, faith and business leaders who want to build momentum for climate action, and now is a critical moment, since right now Congress is setting its agenda for the rest of 2010. We need clean energy and climate legislation to be on the table. Call in to 1-877-973-7693. Tell them who you are. And say you support passing clean energy and climate legislation now. via Robert Redford: A 72-Hour Campaign for Climate Action | Huffington Post. March 3 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s top environmental regulator will testify before Congress today amid growing opposition to her agency’s proposed limits on the pollution linked to climate change. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will face lawmakers a day after Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia called for a two-year delay on greenhouse-gas regulations and top House Republicans demanded they be stopped altogether. via EPA Chief to Testify on Hill as Dissent Over Carbon Rules Grows – BusinessWeek.  Deepti Pradhan (right) introduces Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC, speaker at the Tilde Cafe, which took place at Nellie Greens in Branford, Connecticut, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. (photo: ct environmental headlines) Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chair of the Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), spoke to those attending the Tilde Café at Nellie Greens in Branford Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. Climate Change Pachauri discussed the consumption patterns of the human race and what our growing dependence on fossil fuels has done to the environment and on Earth’s atmosphere. “The Earth has maintained a climatic balance for a long time,” Pachauri said. Now, with higher concentrations of gases, we have created a blanket that reflects heat back to Earth and “the balance is being disturbed.” This disruption, he said, is resulting in changes in precipitation and increase in extreme weather events. The 2035 Report Pachauri wasn’t asked directly about the 2007 report of the IPCC that reported that “Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.” But he did begin is address to this Tilde Café speaking about the report. Continue reading Pachauri: ‘Humanity disturbing climatic balance of Earth’ Perhaps nothing better symbolized the nation's overindulgent, often misguided, credit-backed pre-Great Recession consumerism than the Hummer. Appropriate then that it appears the Hummer will not survive the economic downtown. This is not good news, of course, for those working at Hummer plants in Louisiana and Indiana. Perhaps the plants can be retooled to produce hybrid vehicles – or the coming GM Volt electric car. via Big, bad and silly – so long, Hummer | The Day. The Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project had the kick off meeting Feb. 17, 2010, in Hartford. The Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc. (GNHCCC), together with over 30 partner organizations will develop and implement a state-wide, fuel-neutral effort that will deploy 183 alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) through incremental funding and provide fueling capability for 21 additional fleet vehicles and infrastructure necessary to directly support the vehicle deployments as part of the Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project. Also see this story in the Register Citizen about an announcement from Gov. M. Jodi Rell: The Governor announced today that Connecticut has moved closer to those goals with the newly released preliminary recommendations from her Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Council that is examining ways the state can accommodate electric vehicles (EVs) through public policy, infrastructure and education. via Governor Rell announces electric vehicles are closer to coming to Connecticut – The Register Citizen. Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced that the state Department of Environmental Protection is launching a new, state-of-the-art online system for power plants, factories and other facilities to report their emissions data electronically. “This new system is a perfect example of how we can put the power of technology to work to improving the quality of government services and serving the people of our state,” Gov. Rell said. “By automating what had been an antiquated, paper-based process for collecting information, this new system allows businesses and industries to streamline their reporting while giving the DEP instant access to the information it needs to ensure compliance with emissions permits and protect the quality of the air we breathe. The Intersection Between Science and Social Action: The Case of Climate Change. A discussion led by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Wal-Mart vowed on Thursday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 million metric tons across its vast network of suppliers and stores by 2015, part of the retailer’s ongoing efforts to become more environmentally friendly. via Wal-Mart promises to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2015 – washingtonpost.com. The most dangerous consequence of Washington getting more than two feet of snow was the chilling effect it had on sound reasoning about global warming. Janet Redman is co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies, where she provides analysis of international financial institutions’ energy investment and carbon finance activities. She’s also an avid cross-country skier. www.ips-dc.org. via JANET REDMAN: Strange snow patterns consistent with climate change – The Register Citizen Opinion. |
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