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League Calls on President Obama to Lead Climate Change Fight
The League sent a letter to President Obama asking him to lead the fight for climate change.
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New Soot Standard: Very Important Win for Public Health and Environment
| StephanieWashington, DC - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released long-awaited air quality standards for fine particles that come from power plants, oil refineries, boilers and diesel trucks and buses. The new rule is set at a level to protect against asthma attacks, heart disease, lung disease and premature death.
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President Obama Must Lead in Climate Change Fight
| Lloyd LeonardPeople are dying because of climate change. Hurricane Sandy is just one of the killer storms made more severe and more frequent by a warming planet. Deadly heat waves, droughts and floods are also on their way. And climate change caused by carbon pollution is increasing the formation of lung damaging and asthma-attack inducing smog, which is particularly dangerous for kids and seniors
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League Opposes H.R. 6172
The League and members of the environment community sent the following letter to a subcommittee on Energy and Commerce opposing H.R. 6172. This bill would rewrite the Clean Air Act and block the Environmental Protection Agency from setting any standards for power plant carbon pollution.
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Climate and Food in 2012
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Time for all to comment on new greenhouse gas rule
| KellyToday, the Administration published their new proposed greenhouse gas rule for new power plants. This first-of-its-kind rule is a really important step in the fight to eliminate the ill-effects of global climate change. The League is pleased with this development and said as much in our earlier press statement.
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S GREENHOUSE GAS RULE IS A MAJOR STEP IN CONTROLLING CLIMATE CHANGE
| KellyWashington, DC (April 13, 2012) – The League of Women Voters today praised the Administration’s proposed greenhouse gas rule for new power plants. The new rule, published this morning, will set new public health protections to limit industrial carbon pollution for future power plants, a key step in controlling global climate change.
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Red Bank Women Voters for RGGI
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Today, we are all - sisters on the planet
| Elisabeth MacNamaraWhile politicians debate the sources of climate change, for women in the developing world, it doesn’t much matter whether the droughts and food price spikes they endure are manmade or not, the result is the same, poverty and hunger. Today is International Women Day and a good day to remember that we are all sisters on the planet.
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National Call to Action on Global Warming
The impacts of global warming on human and natural systems are now being observed nearly everywhere. In 2007, the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted serious risks and damages to livelihoods, human infrastructure, societies, species, and ecosystems unless future warming is reduced. So far this decade, emissions, warming, and impacts, such as ice melt and sea level rise, have all been at the upper end of IPCC projections.