Today former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore laid out an ambitious call to action to transform the way we generate and use electricity. He challenged America to commit … Read more
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This Generation's Moonlanding Challenge: Al Gore's Call to Action
Today, Vice President Al Gore spoke to a large crowd in Washington DC and challenged the nation to action to change the way Americans generate and use electricity. "As energy … Read more
Ending Offshore Drilling Moratorium, Bush Chooses Politics Over Climate Action
President George W. Bush yesterday issued an executive order to lift the ban on domestic offshore oil drilling. “By lifting the ban on drilling in our coastal waters, President Bush … Read more
Renewable Energy Sector Helps Drive Job Markets At Home And Abroad
A recent study shows that that jobs in renewable energy are expanding worldwide, while jobs in coal and natural gas are disappearing. Currently about 2.3 million people around the world … Read more
Administration Rejects Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
The Bush administration on Friday rejected regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would cause too many job losses. Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee … Read more
Al Gore To Speak On National Challenge On Energy And Climate
Al Gore, chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, helped launch in March a multi-year, multi-faceted campaign designed to engage the American public and ignite a movement to address one … Read more
Reversing the Paradigm and Cutting Emissions
Peter Darbee, CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric, has given a great online interview. Peter highlights that the utilities like PG&E that have reversed the paradigm of how they reach … Read more
Head of IPCC Warns That We Need to Act Now
Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said Friday that "only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely … Read more