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During Wednesday’s debate on the Upton-Inhofe bill (H.R. 910) to block climate pollution rules, Democrats who support clean energy manufacturing debunked conservative myths about the green economy. Brad Johnson has the story. Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Rep
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Climate Hawks fight GOP efforts to destroy clean energy economy
by Jess Zimmerman. Stars: They’re just like us! They bike around town with their kids in a trailer! They get annoyed at taxis! They really should be wearing helmets! New York Magazine has an interview with city natives Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts, in which the famous couple dishes about their bike lane usage and their frustration with taxis: So what do you think about bike lanes?
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Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts are a hot, famous, rich advertisement for biking
I find myself more introspective every day as events unfold in Japan. I lived there for an extended period of time and tried to master the language. I see the faces of thousands of people that I met in my mind. I’m on this planet to make a difference, to help people, and it hurts to see neighborhoods gone and air polluted. What can be done? Here are a few efforts that I’m seeing: Shigeru Ban Partitions – architect Shigeru Ban, according to BD Online, is sending cardboard partitions victims in order to make emergency shelters more private and less stressful. Architecture for Humanity – this organization is working on relief and rebuilding from the get go. Some portion of donations will support the reconstruction of Sendai and parts of Japan. ShelterBox – this organization sends a box with a strong 10-person tent, water-purifying supplies, coloring books for kids, tools, and food equipment. They’ve sent hundreds already with more on the way. Save the Children – it saddens me to no end to know there may be kids that have lost one or both parents or guardians. Save the Children is mobilizing to help children and families in need
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Join Us in Giving Aid to Japan
The White House is just lousy at messaging across the board , as I and others have noted many times. Obama also seems to have bad luck. He endorsed offshore drilling shortly before the biggest offshore oil disaster in history. He embraced new nuclear power plants in a speech last February, and now we are seeing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl unfold. But in many respects people make their own bad luck from a messaging perspective when they don’t have a coherent guiding philosophy that they explain to people again and again, a narrative, as it is more popularly called (see Is progressive messaging a “massive botch”
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Barack ‘no narrative’ Obama still giving lessons in how not to communicate
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency released rules to put strong new limits on toxic power plant emissions — critical in protecting the health of Americans and cleaning up the air we breathe. CAP’s Susan Lyon has the story. These long-awaited clean air guidelines are a huge victory for our Americans, our health, and our economy, and they are one of the largest steps forward toward protecting the health of our kids in a generation. They will curb the dangerous coal- and oil-fired power plant toxic emissions that have gone entirely unchecked for too long. We are currently being exposed annually to 386,000 tons of 84 dangerous pollutants that are uncontrolled, despite being classified as “air toxics.” The new air quality standards will protect Americans against life-threatening air pollution from power plants that are spewing these air toxics with no limits. The rules will work to stem some of these dangerous air pollutants, as noted previously: Mercury; Arsenic, lead, and other toxic metals; Dioxins; Formaldehyde and other chemicals known or thought to cause cancer; Acid gases such as hydrogen chloride; Radioactive materials, like radium and uranium. Protecting Our Health and Our Economy Cleaning up the air we breathe is proven to have huge health and economic benefits. A recent study of the 1990 Clean Air Act standards showed that those public health safeguards contributed $2 trillion in economic activity to the economy – a 30:1 return on investment – while saving lives – with a projected 230,000 early death preventions in 2020.
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EPA proposes life-saving, innovation-driving Mercury and Air Toxics Standards