Tag: Natural Resources Defense Council

Here’s a blurb on the interview I conducted with Johanna Wald from the Natural Resources Defense Council for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies.   Her job was (she’s since retired) to use the court system to force public and …

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The Natural Resources Defense Council is a United States-based, non-profit international environmental advocacy group. 

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As the basis for the chapter on the use of litigation to protect our natural resources in my first book (Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies), I was lucky enough to interview Johanna Wald at the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) shortly …

The Common Denominator of All Donald Trump’s Environment Policies Read More »

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If the Trump administration has done anything for us, it’s provided a fantastic refresher of what we learned as children in our civics classes: checks and balances, that kind of thing.

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President Trump.  Wow, it hurts just to type those words.  Readers hoping for an upbeat take on the presidential election will have to look elsewhere, for instance, to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which wrote this morning: Shock and disappointment. …

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I’m told there are climate deniers who are both intelligent and honest, but I really can’t understand how it’s possible for such people to hold that belief.  According to new data just released by NASA this week, July was the …

Tough Duty for Climate Deniers Read More »

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From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Just weeks from now, NRDC and its allies will be fighting in the D.C. Circuit Court to defend the Clean Power Plan in one of the most important courtroom battles ever for our …

Big Coal Mounts an Attack Read More »

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A friend sent this video that speaks to the work that his father, Jacob Scherr, Senior Advisor of International Programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, did in illuminating the Eiffel Tower. The NRDC ranks among the world’s most venerable …

Celebrating the Brotherhood of Humankind on the World’s Most Recognizable Structure Read More »

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Long-time reader Bill O’Hearn sent me two wonderful articles he wrote on corporate sustainability that I offer here and here.  He makes some really good and unassailable points, namely, that the recent criminality in the private sector, especially the cases …

Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility (CSR) Programs Have Taken It On the Jaw Read More »

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The “bottomless war chest” of the oil companies has succeeded in gutting the State of California’s proposed Senate Bill 350, a measure calling for a 50 percent cut in petroleum use by 2030.  On Wednesday, state law-makers announced  that a …

A Week of Environmental Victories and Defeats: Just Another Day At the Office Read More »

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