As the Obama Administration ponders whether the gulf oil disaster should dictate any changes in the plans for additional offshore oil drilling, a coalition of environment groups is saying no way, baby, no way to drilling in arctic seas. They’ve put together an ad campaign that will be running on cable news channels, like CNN and MSNBC, saying that arctic offshore oil drilling is a bad idea and asking the public to weigh in by calling President Obama if they agree.
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From Green Right Now Reports
Public Citizen has had a few choice words to describe the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act unveiled Wednesday.
Energy program coordinator Tyson Slocum called the draft legislation a “nuclear energy-promoting, oil drilling-championing, coal mining-boosting gift to polluters bill.”
Slocum’s blog, posted yesterday is based on a broad outline released just in advance of the final draft of American Power Act. He itemizes what Public Citizen, a champion of citizen’s rights and an advocate for sustainable energy, sees as the APA’s numerous flaws:
Excessive nuclear power incentives that burden taxpayers
Tags: · Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act, carbon capture and storage, clean coal, clean energy, consumer protections in American Power Act, Nuclear Power, Offshore Drilling, opposition to Kerry-Lieberman, Public Citizen
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
When President Barack Obama was sworn into office just one year ago, he promised hope to a country in the midst of economic, environmental, and political turmoil. Environmentally, however, the Obama administration that promised “change” has fallen a few cents short, according to one key environmental group, The Center for Biological Diversity.
The administration’s actions (and inaction) are speaking louder than its words, in the view of the center’s Obama Administration First-Year Report Card. Obama’s overall grade: a “C” in protecting (and failing to protect) the environment.
Tags: · biodiversity, Center for Biodiversity, Copenhagen, environmental programs, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Obama Administration, Obama First Year Report Card on environment, Offshore Drilling, roadless law, species protection
For those yearning to hear more about the Democrats’ energy plans, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s vigorous 
speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver opened a more detailed dialogue on the subject.
Schweitzer, a first-term Democratic governor who chose a Republican lieutenant governor, called for “a new energy system that is clean, green and American-made.” He lamented U.S. dependence on foreign oil and what he labeled the Bush Administration’s single-minded focus on drilling to extract more oil, not just abroad but also domestically.
Tags: · Carbon sequestration, Coal Power, Democrats, Montana Governor Schweitzer, Offshore Drilling, oil, Wind Power
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