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clean coal is an oxymoron

David Doniger of NRDC, Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, PSEG; Jim Rogers, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy, take part.

As reported by By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer: “Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson favored giving California some authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks … before he consulted with the White House and reversed course, congressional investigators said yesterday.”

Sherwood Boehlert, former Chairman of the House Science Committee, is interviewed on his current activities to promote market-oriented solutions to global warming, the opportunity for "green collar" jobs and he evaluates climate-change legislation under considerationin Congress.

A new study set out to gain an in-depth understanding of people's relationship to being green. They found that more than 84% believe "it is a moral obligation" to care for the environment and 86 percent already participate in at least one green activity. The research also found that a main barrier to doing more "green" actions is people's trepidation that such activities may associate them with extreme political or environmental viewpoints.

Mark S. Dodson, President & CEO, NW Natural; David M. McClanahan, President & CEO, CenterPoint Energy; and David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council all describe the relation between natural gas reliance and global climate change from both a corporate and environmental perspective, including the role of a cap-and-trade system.

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) release a comprehensive assessment that found that
widespread use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the United States could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and potentially improve ambient air quality.

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