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Green Roundup - June 5, 2012

Pro-pollution voices have revived attacks on Obama’s 2011 Solyndra investment, and Mitt Romney dropped by the plant last week to deride it as a “gross waste.” Does anyone really care? [TreeHugger]

Former President Bill Clinton lashed out at Romney’s attacks on Solyndra, reminding people at a New York fundraiser of Obama’s strong record in wind and solar energy. “During the worst of the meltdown, clean-energy jobs grew twice as fast as the rest of the economy ...More

Daily Green Roundup - June 4, 2012

A Bay State solar panel developer that landed a state loan from Mitt Romney when he was Massachusetts governor has gone belly up – a day after the GOP presidential hopeful ripped President Obama’s investments in solar manufacturer Solyndra. [Boston Herald]

In attacking President Obama on Solyndra, Romney also failed to get the story straight, making inaccurate claims about the President’s investments. [Associated Press]

Energy companies are losing faith in coal – the percentage of utility executives ...More

Power Supply in Hot Water

A warming climate is starting to take its toll on the future of power generation. According to a new article in Nature Climate Change, rising water temperatures will soon make it harder for power plants to generate electricity.

Researchers predict that the number of days when river water is at “extremely high” temperatures will be three times the number today, on average. With less water available for cooling, power plants will be unable to operate ...More

New Polling Data on Ohio

A recent LCV TV ad campaign thanking Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown for supporting clean energy jobs policies produced noteworthy changes in public attitudes about the senator on important metrics, according to survey research conducted by Hart Research Associates. According to the survey data, the ads produced a significant shift in the assessment of the job Senator Brown is doing, their feelings toward him and their opinions about his record on job creation. For example, ...More

Daily Green Roundup - June 1, 2012

Karl Rove-founded American Crossroads released a video this week slamming Obama for investing in green energy companies that eventually fail, like Solyndra, a solar manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy last September. It turns out, however, that one of the companies in the ad also received millions in government money from then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. [Washington Post]

Sandwich safety alert: Peanut butter and deli meats have both been found to contain a toxic flame retardant commonly used ...More

Wal-Mart Exits ALEC

Thanks in large part to grassroots pressure, corporate behemoth Wal-Mart has become the twenty-second funder to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), joining a list of defectors that includes Amazon, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Kraft.

The polarizing ALEC has a record of crafting anti-environment model legislation, like bills that strip renewable energy targets and block toxic coal ash regulation.

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, announced yesterday that it is severing ties with ALEC after a ...More

Daily Green Roundup - May 31, 2012

A “troubling milestone”: for the first time in at least 800,000 years, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have crossed the threshold of 400 parts per million, a sign that greenhouse gas emissions are increasing at an alarming rate. [Washington Post]

A huge pipeline spill has released 22,000 barrels of oil and water in northwest Alberta, one of the largest spills in North America in recent years. [Globe and Mail]

A new UN report says a global ...More

Corporate Hypocrisy - Now In Green

Many corporations publically supporting climate science are actively working against regulations and laws addressing global warming, finds a Union of Concerned Scientists report “A Climate of Corporate Control,” released yesterday. The report examines the public relations, political involvement, and corporate donations of 28 S&P 500 companies that attempted to influence climate policy in 2009 and 2010, with information on House and Senate climate votes contributed by the League of Conservation Voters.

While giving lip service to ...More