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Industry-Drafted Model Outdoor Lighting Legislation Introduced
2013-01-22 21:54:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Sen. Cynthia Creem of the Massachusetts State Senate has introduced SD 844, which was spearheaded by an industry coalition led by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) to reduce nighttime skyglow and light trespass in Massachusetts while ensuring that customer choice and proper lighting quality is maintained read more
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If you want to pass climate legislation, fix U.S. politics
2013-01-17 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When pondering the failure of a big legislative initiative like cap-and-trade - and oh, there`s been so much pondering! - there are two basic perspectives one can take. First, you can think about how a campaign could be improved so that next time the initiative can clear the bar. That`s mostly what my recent post-cap-and-trade piece (and the Theda Skocpol report [PDF] it discussed) focused on. Build a bigger movement, make the legislation simpler, get more help from the president, whatever. That...
Why Climate Change Legislation Failed -- And What to Do About It
2013-01-17 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Theda Skocpol has written an immense study of why the 2010 climate bill failed. I haven't read it yet, but Brad Plumer talked to her yesterday and got the nutshell version: climate hawks had a really bad legislative strategy: BP: So around 2007, Republicans were becoming more skeptical of climate policy. Yet the main climate strategy in D.C. was to craft a complex cap-and-trade bill amenable to businesses like BP and DuPont in the hopes that those companies would bring in Republican votes. TS:...
National Legislation Key to Combating Climate Change
2013-01-16 02:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A majority of major economies have made significant progress in addressing climate change, with countries like South Korea and China taking aggressive action so they can benefit from energy- and resource-efficient economies, a new report released Monday found. The study by GLOBE International and Grantham Research Institute profiled 33 major economies in an annual examination of climate and energy legislation. 32 of them, including the United States, made significant progress in 2012, while only...
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The Aluminum Association Responds to Maryland Deposit Legislation
2013-01-14 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
To conserve resources, Aluminum Association believes all options should be part of conversation to increase recycling and prevent aluminum cans from going to landfills. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable, and one used can may be transformed into new one within 60 days. Industry wishes to reach 75% recycling rate for aluminum cans by 2015, whereas can recycling rate was 65.1% in 2011. Association claimed that states with strong deposit laws have higher rates of recycling than those without. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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