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| Today, Senators Jeff Merkley, Tom Carper and Tom Udall introduced the Oil Independence for a Stronger America Act. Environment New Hampshire’s Federal Global Warming Program Director Nathan Willcox issued the following statement in response. | |
| Like many others seeing the images of oil-covered birds and dead turtles washing ashore in the Gulf, Leslie Rennie from Beloit, WI felt helpless. Gumbo for the Gulf, a unique fundraiser launched by Environment America, gave her an easy way to make a difference. | |
| Today, Representative Pallone, NJ-D and Representative Castor, FL-D joined with Environment America, Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Greenpeace, MoveOn, Oceana, League of Conservation Voters, and Ocean Champions to release more than 400,000 comments from citizens all around the U.S. asking President Obama to protect our oceans and coasts from the expansion of offshore drilling. | |
| President Obama used his first Oval Office address to the nation to detail his administration’s response to the disastrous BP oil spill, and to call on Congress to pass a comprehensive clean energy policy to help move the country away from oil. Environment New Hampshire’s Federal Global Warming Program Director Nathan Willcox issued the following statement in response. | |
| Today the United States House passed the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 – legislation that will significantly reduce pollution and create an estimated 168,000 clean energy jobs over the next two years. | |
| Tomorrow the United States House will vote on the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 – legislation that would significantly reduce pollution and create an estimated 168,000 clean energy jobs over the next two years. | |
| Today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced the Department of the Interior’s final approval of the Cape Wind offshore wind project off the coast of Massachusetts. The announcement means that by 2012, Massachusetts residents could be the first in the nation to receive energy from offshore wind power. | |
| Environment New Hampshire released a report on building energy efficiency alongside the Concord city Councilman Rob Werner and the U.S. Green Buildings Council. New Hampshire Families will save just over $2,000 yearly by 2030 by investing in energy efficiency today. | |
| Environment New Hampshire released a report, highlighting the need to think beyond the conventional use of solar panels and tap in this clean, inexhaustible resource. The report finds that the sun produces more energy in one hour than all oil derricks and coal-fired power plants combined. Jim Gamble of GES Solar Store in Concord has documented savings from his customers. | |
| In 2008, people in New Hampshire saved 545,000 gallons of gasoline by riding transit in record numbers—the amount consumed by 945 cars in New Hampshire. Transportation is responsible for more than two-thirds of our dependence on oil, and about one-third of our carbon dioxide pollution. | |