Is It Just Coincidence That States With Anti-Climate Action Resolutions Are Dependent on Coal?

Missouri coal train, photo: Scott Granneman via flickr. As Grist pointed out yesterday, the US now has 15 states with resolutions attempting to prevent limits on greenhouse gas pollution . Add to that West Virginia Senator John Rockefeller’s bill, just introduced, which would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating stationary sources of pollution for effectively four years

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Is It Just Coincidence That States With Anti-Climate Action Resolutions Are Dependent on Coal?

Murkowski’s "Dirty Air Act" Gets Help from Democrats

Photo via Fuel Efficient Vehicles Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has been surfacing in the news recently, thanks to an amendment she’s created to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases–even though she lives in the state perhaps most threatened by climate change. The bill, which was openly written with the help of lobbyists, has now gotten bipartisan support from one of the chief opponents of clean energy reform from the Democratic side of the aisle–any guesses on who i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Short Haul? Forget U-Haul – Leave the Hauling to This

Photo credit Mary Ann Archambault via Sub Rosa. This is my dining room table. This is my dining room table on a bike

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Keep Track of Nations’ Copenhagen Accord Commitments with US Climate Action Network

With ten days to go before countries have to submit their plans for reducing emissions and signing onto the thoroughly non-binding, it was the best we could do, trust us, Copenhagen Accord , none of the world’s major economies have actually done so. The United Nations has indicated that the Jan 31 deadline is now flexible–”soft” was the word the UN’s Yvo de Boer used

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Keep Track of Nations’ Copenhagen Accord Commitments with US Climate Action Network