Conservation Law Foundation » lead http://www.clf.org For a thriving New England Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:23:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Everything old is new again: The fight for Clean Air continues & reducing, reusing and recycling is still a good idea http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/everything-old-is-new-again-the-fight-for-clean-air-continues-reducing-reusing-and-recycling-is-still-a-good-idea/ http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/everything-old-is-new-again-the-fight-for-clean-air-continues-reducing-reusing-and-recycling-is-still-a-good-idea/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:34:29 +0000 Seth Kaplan http://www.clf.org/?p=659 read more...]]> While the overarching environmental challenge of our time continues to be global warming we can’t loose sight of the need to confront the other air pollution that threatens the public health.  For those of us who fighting against dangerous pollution from coal fired power plants like Salem Harbor in Massachusetts this is not news – but the fact that a bi-partisan group of U.S. Senators (there is a phrase you don’t see much !!) have filed legislation to address this pollution is significant.   Exactly how good a bill is this?  We don’t know as they haven’t released the text and the devil (and god) are in the details.   But it is good to see our Senators paying attention to coal plant pollution !

Meanwhile, Tricia Jedele who runs CLF’s office in Rhode Island is helping to move ahead an effort to focus on the old school environmental value of waste reduction.  Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.  And she points out that the U.S. EPA have produced a very convincing report on how this classic brand of environmental action is good for the climate – bringing us back to global warming again . . .

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