Climate Action Network

• The Climate Action Network Holds a Teleconference to Discuss the Upcoming U.N. Climate Talks in Bonn, Germany

THE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK HOLDS A TELECONFERENCE TO DISCUSS THE UPCOMING U.N. CLIMATE TALKS IN BONN, GERMANY MAY 27, 2009 SPEAKERS: ANGELA...

• Political Transcript Wire
• October 01, 2009

• Earth First! Founder: End Mountaintop Mining

In larger campaigns, he has had up to 10,000 activists in attendance, with celebrities such as Bonnie Raitt and Don Henley there to help, Roselle said. Since his beginnings in the environmental movement, Roselle has been part of Earth First!, the Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, The Ruckus Society and Climate Ground Zero, among others.

• State Journal, The
• September 04, 2009

• Chesapeake Climate Action Network: Gov. Ehrlich's Power Plant Proposal Fails to Address Global Warming

BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Environmental leaders in Maryland agree that Gov. Ehrlich's proposal to reduce pollutants from Maryland's power plants falls short of the actions needed to truly clean up Maryland's air and water. Low targets and a total lack of carbon dioxide have lead many of Maryland's environmental groups to strengthen their support for a legislative approach which will address all four dirty pollutants from Maryland's power plants. We are pleased that the Governor has recognized what Maryland citizens have been saying for years: we need to clean up Maryland's dirty power plants. However, his recipe for solving this problem is missing the key ingredient: carbon dioxide, the leading cause of global warming. The only real solution to cleaning up the four wo...

• U.S. Newswire
• November 17, 2005

• Maryland Adopts Historic Global Warming Law Mandating Greenhouse Gas Reductions From Power Plants, Says Chesapeake Climate Action Network

ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a major victory against global warming, the Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Friday to the strongest power-plant cleanup bill ever passed by a legislative body in America. In addition to dramatically reducing nitrogen, sulfur and mercury pollution, the Maryland Healthy Air Act requires that the state join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a consortium of eastern states committed to mandatory CO2 reductions from power plants. After a two-year campaign led by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and a coalition of other environmental, faith, and health groups, the so-called 4-pollutant bill passed by veto-proof majorities in both Maryland houses. Aides to Republican governor Robert Ehrlich say the governor does not ...

• U.S. Newswire
• March 31, 2006

• Short On Real Power

LAST MONTH Glen Besa, the director of the Sierra Club's Virginia chapter, rebuked Dominion Virginia Power for failing to "jump-start the clean, renewable energy industry in Virginia. ... Offshore wind, which is plentiful off Virginia's coast, could create 10,000 jobs in the commonwealth. It is time for Dominion to make major investments in wind and solar in Virginia and bring these jobs to Virginia. Others concur. Beth Kemler, state director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, notes that Dominion has proposed two new 1,300-megawatt gas-fired power stations. Bad idea, she says: "While natural gas may be cheap now, its price has fluctuated greatly in the past and is expected to rise in the future. Wind, on the other hand, is a free natural resource. So building a wind farm includes...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• September 15, 2011

• Backers Still Want Md. Wind Bill

Maryland is pressing ahead to spur development of an offshore wind energy industry even as the failure of Gov. Martin O'Malley's marquee energy proposal before the General Assembly promises to delay the effort. It definitely sets us back in the race, but it does not count us out by any means," said Tom Carlson, state campaign director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. "Europe has been doing this since 1991. Japan has wind turbines that survived the tsunami. There's no doubt we're way behind in the game already.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• April 17, 2011

• Leaders Urge Governor to Oppose Power Plant

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- More than 60 faith leaders from across Virginia have joined environmental groups in urging Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to oppose a coal-fired power plant that Dominion Virginia Power wants to build in Wise County. The ministers, rabbis and theologians signed onto a letter to the governor from the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, one of the environmental groups leading the fight against the proposed plant in southwest Virginia.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• March 15, 2008

• Protesters Occupy Ledge Above Federal Agency to Demand Action On Global Warming ; Standoff with Police Occurs at Noaa Headquarters in D.C. Area; Six Protesters Blockade Main Entrance Denouncing Bush Climate Policies

To: National Desk, Environment Reporter Contact: Mike Tidwell 240.460.5838, or Gary Skulnik 202-413- 8534, or Ted Glick 973.460.l458, or Josh Tulkin 650-722-3171, for Chesapeake Climate Action Network

• U.S. Newswire
• October 23, 2006

• State and local governments prepare for climate change.

... climate change adaptation and mitigation actions (see Figure 1). . The International City Managers ...(May 2008). California Climate Action Network: Best Practices Framework. . Walsh, Mary. (April 2...

• The Public Manager
• Vol. 40 Nbr. 1, March 2011

• Maryland Legal Briefs: June 30, 2009

Power plant, Mirant face suit An environmental group and four Maryland residents have filed a lawsuit against the Mirant Chalk Point power plant in Prince George's County. The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, accuses the power plant and its parent company, Mirant Mid-Atlantic LLC, of violating the Clean Air Act. The Chesapeake Climate Action Network and residents of Accokeek and Mechanicsville accuse the power plant operators of repeatedly burning residual fuel oil without the required pollution controls to reduce harmful emissions. A Mirant spokeswoman said Monday the company was not commenting on the lawsuit. Mirant has also faced criticism from environmentalists over its power plant in Alexandria, Va.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• July 01, 2009