http://www.usclimatenetwork.org daily 1 2009-04-14T14:46:12Z http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/environmental-coalition-letter-to-senate-on-keystone-xl-pipeline-2.10.12 Dear Senator: On behalf of our millions of members and supporters, we write to express our vehement opposition to any and all legislation that would approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The Keystone XL pipeline would transport toxic tar sands from under Canada’s Boreal forest 1,700 miles to the Gulf of Mexico to be refined and exported. President Obama firmly rejected the permit for this project last month. No publisher AWachur 2012-02-10T21:39:41Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/letter-to-congress-oppose-h.r.-7-2013-american-energy-and-infrastructure-jobs-act-of-2012 A Group sign-on Letter to Members of Congresses asking them to Oppose H.R. 7 – American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012 No publisher AWachur 2012-02-08T18:56:02Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/investor-letter-to-senate-support-cross-state-air-pollution-rule-and-mercury-and-air-toxics-rule-12.12.11 Dear Majority Leader Reid and Minority Leader McConnell: We are 32 investors writing to urge you and your colleagues to support timely implementation of Clean Air Act rules proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), most notably the Cross State Air Pollution rule (CSAPR) and Mercury and Air Toxics rule (Utility MACT). No publisher AWachur 2011-12-16T18:59:58Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/business-leaders-support-clean-energy-tax-incentives-oppose-anti-environmental-riders-e2-letter-12.12.11 Dear Chairman Baucus, Ranking Member Hatch, Chairman Camp, and Ranking Member Levin: As Congress moves to complete its business for the year we, as members of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), are writing to urge you to extend important tax provisions that can move our nation toward a clean energy economy, and to ensure that tax and spending bills do not include any anti‐environmental riders. The need to move forward on energy programs must not be used as an excuse to do environmental damage. No publisher AWachur 2011-12-16T17:42:18Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/clinton-ceo-letter-on-durban-11.29.11 Dear Secretary Clinton: We are writing to express our concerns about the negotiating positions and strategy of the United States going into the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which starts this week in Durban, South Africa. These are concerns our organizations have previously raised with your negotiators in meetings and conversations over the past year, and that at the outset of the Durban meeting, we feel compelled to bring to your attention directly. No publisher AWachur 2011-11-30T13:19:30Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/53-members-of-congress-call-on-obama-administration-to-pursue-ambitious-agenda-at-durban-climate-change-summit-oxfam-america-press-release-11.22.11 Washington D.C. – Just days before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in Durban, South Africa, 53 members of the House of Representatives have sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urging the Obama administration to pursue a just and ambitious agenda in the climate talks (see the full letter and list of signers below). No publisher AWachur 2011-11-30T05:19:09Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/report-economic-impact-of-extending-the-section-1603-treasury-program Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and EuPD Research report analyzing the economic impact of extending the Treasury Grant Program (TGP). No publisher AWachur 2011-10-13T17:40:55Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/poll-small-business-outlook-survey U.S. Chamber poll showing that Regulation is not a top concern for small business owners. Survey finds that the majority of small businesses’ top concern is the general economic climate over recent legislation and over-regulation. The survey also found strong support for greenhouse gas regulations among small businesses. No publisher AWachur 2011-10-13T19:11:09Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/utility-voices-on-epa-rules Statements from a list of utility executives discussing their readiness and ability to handle new EPA regulations. No publisher AWachur 2011-10-11T21:49:09Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/clearing-the-air-on-epa-pollution-standards-creating-new-jobs-and-protecting-public-health In a Congressional testimony, Alstom Power’s James Yann, describes some of the jobs created from just one example of a pollution control technology (a wet flue gas desulfurization “scrubber”) that are commonly used to remove sulfur and other air pollutants. No publisher AWachur 2011-10-11T21:44:32Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/pipe-dreams-jobs-gained-jobs-lost-by-the-construction-of-keystone-xl A report by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute, in association with the ILR School and Global Labor Institute which finds that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline could destroy more American jobs than it creates. Report examines claims made by TransCanada Corporation and the American Petroleum Institute regarding the job-creating potential of the new pipeline. No publisher AWachur 2011-10-13T18:17:28Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/report-exposing-energy-security-keystone-xl-exposed Briefing targets claims made by major industry that the Keystone pipeline is necessary to ensure America’s energy security and will work to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil, scrutinizing the global oil market and the oil companies that stand to profit from the pipeline. No publisher AWachur 2011-09-15T15:40:55Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/eric-cantor-memorandum No publisher mrisalvao 2011-08-31T20:09:13Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/report-green-scissors-2011 targets spending in the areas of energy, agriculture, transportation, and land and water. Subsidies given to the oil and gas industry are specifically cited as unnecessary. According to the report, “Peabody Energy, the largest private sector coal company, earned record-breaking profits in 2008 and has already posted $461.3 million in profits in 2011, up 36 percent from the first six months of 2010. Consol Energy recorded near-record income of $540 million in 2009, and this year, first quarter profits nearly doubled from 2010 to reach $192 million.” No publisher AWachur 2011-08-30T17:32:51Z File http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resource-database/report-western-energy-grid-to-2050 Based on the fact that over $200 billion will be invested in the western electricity sector by 2030, the report considers two opposing routes the electricity grid’s development course could follow through the year 2050, comparing their economic, environmental, security, and public health impacts. The first trajectory, a “Business As-Usual” approach, focuses discretionary investment on “retrofitting, repowering and adding coal generation and on meeting any incremental needs with new gas-fired generation” while the second, a “Clean Energy Vision,” focuses this investment on implementing renewable energy technologies. No publisher AWachur 2011-08-30T17:46:28Z File