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| This year’s unprecedented heat wave is part of a broader trend of rising temperatures in Michigan, according to a new report, Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and Rising Temperatures in the United States, released today by Environment Michigan Research and Policy Center. | |
| The same day 200 wind industry leaders gather to talk about investing in 21st century technology in Michigan, DTE Energy and the nuclear industry are sponsoring talks by former environmentalists about the supposed economic and environmental benefits of nuclear power. This misleading attempt to claim environmental and economic benefits for nuclear power appears to be part of DTE’s effort to fool Michigan ratepayers into financing a costly new nuclear reactor at the Fermi plant near Monroe. | |
| Today I speak on behalf of the co-sponsors of this Town Hall meeting, a coalition of the state’s leading environmental groups including mine, Clean Water Action, The Ecology Center, Environment Michigan, and the Michigan League of Conservation Voters. | |
| Just weeks after the strongest global warming legislation in history was introduced in Congress, a new report released today by Environment Michigan Research & Policy Center shows how Michigan and the rest of the U.S. can meet – and even exceed – the legislation’s goals. The report finds that we can reduce global warming emissions by nearly 20 percent within the next 15 years by decreasing our dependence on foreign oil and investing in renewable energy. | |
| The average temperature in Detroit was 2.7°F above average in 2006, according to a new report released today by Environment Michigan Policy & Research Center. This warmer-than-normal weather is indicative of what Michigan can expect with continued global warming. | |
| Today marks a turning point in fight against global warming. We commend Senator Jeffords for introducing the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, the long-term solution to global warming. This bill comes not a moment too soon to address one of the most profound issues of our time. | |
| Energy companies are planning to build over 150 new coal-fired power plants in locations across the United States, including in Michigan, according to a report released today by Environment Michigan Research & Policy Center. Far from enhancing energy security, the proposed plants – most of them powered by dirty, last-generation technologies – would pose energy security and economic problems and dramatically increase global warming pollution. | |
| Standing in front of a 20-foot, inflated model of the earth in downtown Detroit, Environment Michigan called for action to reduce global warming pollution. To prevent the worst impacts of global warming in Detroit, the best science says that we must reduce global warming pollution by 15-20% by 2020, and by 80% by 2050. | |
| Forty U.S. senators today sent a bipartisan letter to President Bush calling for stabilizing global warming emissions within 10 years, which leading scientists say is needed to avert the most devastating and irreversible impacts of global warming, such as a substantial rise in sea level that would inundate coastal areas. | |
| The Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a duty to regulate global warming pollution. The decision could affect emissions from cars and trucks as well as power plants. | |
| Global warming pollution in Michigan jumped 46% while almost doubling nationally between 1960 and 2001, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of government data released today by the Environment Michigan Research & Policy Center. Increased coal emissions and oil emissions were responsible for 21% and 31% of this increase, respectively. | |
| In a landmark decision in one of the most important environmental cases ever heard by the Supreme Court, the Court ruled today that the Clean Air Act gives the U.S. EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants from cars. | |
| Global warming pollution in Michigan increased by 4% between 1990 and 2004, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by Environment Michigan Research & Policy Center. This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been released. Despite Michigan’s lagging economy and clear loss of the industrial sector, Michigan is still seeing increases in global warming pollution. | |
| The world’s scientists are more than 90% certain that human activity – primarily burning fossil fuels to power cars, power plants, and factories – is responsible for most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century, according to a consensus report released early this morning by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| Grand Rapids, Michigan—Scientists have said for years that global warming was “loading the dice” when it comes to increasing the frequency of severe storms, and a new Environment Michigan Research & Policy Center report makes it clear that Michigan is already experiencing extreme downpours much more frequently. Specifically, the new report found that storms with heavy rainfall are now 18 percent more frequent in Michigan than they were 60 years ago. | |
| The President called for an increase in CAFE in his 2007 State of the Union address and Congress has signed, sealed, and delivered it to him. Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, along with Chairman Dingell and Chairman Markey, deserve tremendous credit for breaking the decades-long log jam on fuel economy. | |
| Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a landmark global warming case, Massachusetts v. EPA. This case will decide whether the Clean Air Act authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the pollution that causes global warming. | |