By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of 22 states and 7 local governments announced a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday over the Trump administration’s proposed new Affordable Clean Energy rule, which rolls back decades of regulations aimed at cleaning up air pollution from coal-fired power plants and virtually erases progress by the Obama administration’s…
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A Significant Majority of Americans Support Efforts to Reduce Energy from Fossil Fuels to Combat Climate Change
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the future of any proposed Green New Deal in Congress may be somewhat politically controversial, a significant majority of Americans, 60 percent, support dramatically reducing the nation’s use of fossil fuels over the next two decades as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the growing…
The Art of Budget Cutting: Arts Orgs, Others Try To Compose a Response in Mobile
By David Underhill â MOBILE, Ala. â Remember those photos from Pakistan several years ago? Squadrons of unruly lawyers in suits and ties, some with flowing wigs left over from British imperial days, wielding brief cases like cudgels in the streets to protest an insult to themselves and the constitution by autocratic rulers? Now picture…
Mobile Bucks National Trend, Sides With Polluting Industry Over Tourism and the Environment
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — While many local and state governments across the country are joining the federal government in turning away from the development of fossil fuel production in favor of clean, renewable energy to fight climate change due to global warming and create the good, high paying jobs of the future,…