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| 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. | |
| Washington, DC—In testimony today before a subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Environment America Federal Global Warming Program Director, Emily Figdor, will praise Chairman Waxman for legislation that would require the federal government to be carbon neutral by 2050. | |
| Washington, D.C.—The pollution reductions needed to stave off the worst effects of global warming can be achieved—if governments act now, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| On Friday, May 4th, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming, will issue the third volume of its Fourth Assessment Report on global warming. This memo provides a brief overview of what to expect from the May 4th report. | |
| Washington, DC—Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to “The Carbon Boom,†a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by Environment America. | |
| Washington, DC—As a public comment period comes to a close on a proposed rule to list the polar bear as a threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to announce the receipt of more than 500,000 electronic comments and hundreds of submissions from schoolchildren to environmental groups to industry groups. If listed, the polar bear would be the first mammal to receive protected status under the Endangered Species Act because of the threat of global warming. | |
| Washington, D.C.—Approximately 20-30 percent of plant and animal species are at increasing risk of extinction if the global average temperature increases by another 2.2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| Washington, DC—In a landmark decision in one of the most important environmental cases ever heard by the Supreme Court, the Court ruled today that the Clean Air Act gives the U.S. EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants from cars. | |
| On Friday, April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming, is expected to issue the second volume of its Fourth Assessment Report on global warming. | |
| Washington, DC—Environment America applauded Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) for introducing strong, comprehensive legislation today to fight global warming. | |
| Today the House approved funding for a new select committee on global warming and energy independence. We applaud the House leadership for focusing on this important problem. | |
| The world’s scientists are more than 90% certain that human activity – primarily burning fossil fuels to power cars, power plants, and factories – is responsible for most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century, according to a consensus report released early this morning by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| Washington, DC—The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a landmark global warming case. The case will decide whether the Clean Air Act authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the pollution that causes global warming. | |
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