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| Richmond – Last week, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli declared his attention to file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Car Rule. The reasoning for this newest lawsuit is based on the fact that he has challenged the EPA’s endangerment finding for carbon dioxide which was issued in December. | |
| Richmond – In a huge win for Virginia’s environment, public health and national security, the Obama administration today announced new standards for automobile fuel economy and global warming emissions. An Environment Virginia analysis found that these new federal standards – based on the “clean cars program” developed by California and adopted by 13 other states – will save Virginians 324 million gallons of gasoline by 2016 as compared to the previous federal standards, while reducing emissions of global warming pollutants and providing a net economic savings to consumers. | |
| Richmond, VA – This morning 17 Virginia lawmakers stood together to voice their concern over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s recent challenge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding. The EPA’s endangerment finding followed a US Supreme Court decision in 2007 (Massachusetts v. EPA) in which the court ordered EPA to determine if carbon dioxide is a threat to human health. | |
| Richmond – On Tuesday afternoon, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed a challenge in federal court to the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding which was issued in December 2008. The EPA finding declared, in accordance with a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health and a cause of global warming. | |
| Washington, DC – Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska introduced a resolution today disapproving of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s December 2009 scientific finding that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants threaten human health and the environment. She crafted the resolution pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, a law that enables Congress to veto federal agency rules using special, expedited procedures. | |
| Charlottesville, VA: Far from a solution to global warming, nuclear power will actually set America back in the race to reduce pollution, according to a new report by Environment Virginia. Environment Virginia was joined by the Piedmont Group of Sierra Club and local nuclear power activists today to release the report and call on Senators Webb and Warner to focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy instead of nuclear power as the solution to global warming. | |
| Richmond, Virginia—Virginia’s global warming pollution increased by 35 percent since 1990, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Virginia. | |
| Richmond, VA – Global warming could cost corn growers in Virginia nearly $5 million a year, according to a new report by Environment Virginia. Nationwide the damages to America’s largest crop total more than $1.4 billion annually. Corn is just one crop that will be negatively affected by global warming unless the Senate takes decisive action to repower America with clean energy and reduce global warming pollution. | |
| A coalition of Virginia environmental organizations have brought together local elected officials, renewable energy businesses, labor unions, and other concerned groups in a coalition letter asking President Obama to prioritize investment in renewable energy. | |
| Groups call for Senator Mark Warner to support President Obama’s budget for 2010, which protects provisions for cap and trade of global warming pollution, invests in public education and reforms of the health care system. | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hear testimony on allowing 14 states to move forward on strong clean cars standards that the Bush administration had been blocking. Adopting this measure would reduce global warming pollution by 36.4 million metric tons and save Virginia $7 billion by 2020 at the pump. | |
| Today, President Obama gave a green light to states that the Bush administration had left idling on clean cars. Making cars both cleaner and more efficient will reduce America’s dependence on oil and rev up our fight against global warming. | |
| As the presidential candidates prepare to discuss some of the most important issues facing our country at their final debate tonight, Environment Virginia released a new report documenting that the average temperature in Richmond in 2007 was 2.9°F above the historical average. | |
| Environment Virginia strongly criticized the Bush EPA’s announcement today that it will further delay action in response to last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring the EPA to reconsider its 2003 decision not to regulate global warming emissions under the Clean Air Act. | |
| Environment Virginia released a new report, Global Warming Solutions that Work, which details more than 20 examples of cutting-edge policies and practices that communities, states and countries are using to reduce global warming pollution. The report includes Arlington County which has created compact developments around mass transit stations. | |
| Washington, DC—Environment America announced today, Earth Day, that it will work in more than 150 congressional districts across the country to encourage members of Congress to endorse a statement of principles for “strong, fair, and science-based†federal legislation to address global warming. | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally denied California’s request for a Clean Air Act waiver of preemption today, blocking the efforts of thirteen states that seek to require automakers to cut pollution from automobile tailpipes. | |
| On Wednesday December 19th, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Stephen Johnson announced that he was denying a waiver for California under the Clean Air Act to implement global warming pollution standards for cars and trucks—one of the largest and fastest growing sources of global warming pollution. | |
| WASHINGTON, DC: Environment America commended the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee for passing important global warming legislation, the “Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007†(S. 2191) last night, but urged the Senate to strengthen the bill to achieve what the science says is needed to prevent the worst effects of global warming. | |
| On behalf of Environment America, the new home of U.S. PIRG’s environmental work, I am writing to urge your support for several critical strengthening amendments in Wednesday’s committee meeting on the Lieberman-Warner global warming legislation (S. 2191). | |
| Washington, DC— Storms with heavy rainfall are now 24 percent more frequent in the U.S. than they were 60 years ago, according to a new Environment America report released today. The report makes it clear that the United States is already experiencing extreme downpours much more frequently, consistent with scientists’ predictions about global warming. | |
| Time is running out to stop the worst effects of global warming, and only bold and decisive action will protect our environment, economy, and future generations of Americans. While this bill is an important starting point for action, it needs to be strengthened to meet the challenge of global warming. | |
| Capping emissions and making polluters pay for putting global warming emissions into the atmosphere is the most economically efficient and fair approach to cutting global warming pollution nationwide, according to a new report released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG). | |
| Yesterday, the Governors of thirteen states, including New Mexico’s Governor Richardson, released an open letter to the CEOs of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda and Nissan, asserting their commitment to forge ahead with state Clean Car programs and urging the auto manufacturers to withdraw their legal challenges of the program. | |
| The draft bill unveiled today by Senators Lieberman (Conn.) and Warner (Va.) is an encouraging starting point for Senate action on global warming. We commend the senators for their achievement. However, significant changes will need to be made for the bill to provide the strong, science-based solution to global warming that Americans are seeking. | |
| “We commend Senator Bingaman for working to build support for action on global warming. Unfortunately, his new bill fails to deliver the pollution reductions science shows are needed in the next 10 years to stave off the most dangerous impacts of global warming for future generations. | |
| The Senate today helped avoid an environmental disaster by rejecting subsidies and mandates for liquid coal. | |
| Washington, DC – While the CEOs of the Big Three automakers met with Senators behind closed doors to convince them to keep on dragging their heels on fuel economy, Environment America released a new analysis showing that outdated gas mileage standards will cost Americans $53.1 billion dollars at the pump this summer alone. | |
| The President’s proposal changes nothing but the venue for the administration’s do-nothing approach to global warming. | |
| Washington, DC—Tailpipe standards already in place in 12 states would reduce global warming emissions by nearly 400 million metric tons by 2020 – a reduction equivalent to taking 74 million of today’s cars off the road for an entire year, according to a new report released today by Environment America. | |
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