Narrated by Reggie Watts. We are all paying the price of carbon pollution. It’s time to put a price on carbon and make the polluters stop the carbon destruction.
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013Guest on The Infra Blog: Robert Wendelgass, Clean Water Action
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Bob Wendelgass has been President and CEO of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund since November of 2010. Prior to that, he spent five years as National Deputy Director for Clean Water Action, working with its state offices on planning and implementation of campaigns, elections and fundraising. He also served 15 years as Pennsylvania […]
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Tom Curtis, American Water Works Association
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Tom Curtis is Deputy Executive Director of Government Affairs for the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Prior to assuming this position, Curtis served for more than twenty years with several public policy associations, including Director of the Natural Resources Committee of the National Governors’ Association, and Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Liaison with the Environmental Council […]
View this complete post...Failure to Act: The Impact of Current Infrastructure Investment on America’s Economic Future
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Infrastructure is the physical framework upon which the U.S. economy operates and the nation’s standard of living depends. Everything depends on this framework, including transporting goods, powering factories, heating and cooling office buildings, and enjoying a glass of clean water.
Fiscal Fiasco Bright Spot: 2013 will be a Huge Year for Wind
Friday, January 4th, 2013
GRIST.orgBy: David Roberts You have probably heard by now that Congress has voted through a bill that will avert the absurdly named “fiscal cliff.” I’ll leave it to other blogs to get into the details. (Suzy Khimm has a nice rundown.) I’ll also leave it to others to lament the absurd way in which this […]
View this complete post...Infographic: Offshore Wind Outlook
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
According to a new report commissioned by the Energy Department, a U.S. offshore wind industry that takes advantage of this abundant domestic resource could support up to 200,000 manufacturing, construction, operation and supply chain jobs across the country and drive over $70 billion in annual investments by 2030.
Interactive Report: The Value of Water
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
XYLEM
The 2012 Xylem Value of Water Index found that nearly all Americans (90 percent) consider water an important service on par with electricity and heat. They recognize that demands on the nation’s water resources are growing.
Valuing Florida’s Clean Water
Friday, November 30th, 2012
STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE
In 1998 the EPA adopted the Clean Water Action Plan, which stated that excessive nutrient pollution results in greater than expected growth of macrophytes or phytoplankton, and potentially harmful algae blooms or outbreaks leading to declining oxygen levels, an imbalance among aquatic species, public health risks, and a general degradation of the aquatic resource. The “Key Action” for addressing nutrient over-enrichment was a requirement that states develop and implement numeric limits on the amount of so-called “nutrients” – phosphorus and nitrogen – allowed in waterbodies by the year 2004.
Infographic: The Road to Fuel Efficiency
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
This infographic takes a look at fuel economy standards and how recent improvements in these standards will benefit consumers and the U.S. economy. | Infographic by Sarah Gerrity at US DOE. View Infographic (Energy.gov): The Road to Fuel Efficiency About the US Department of Energy (DOE)energy.gov“The mission of the Energy Department is to ensure […]
View this complete post...South Texas Native Plant Restoration Project
Friday, November 16th, 2012
CAESAR KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Restoring vegetative cover on disturbed or engineered soils following roadway construction is a minor part of the overall workload of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). But the resultant plant communities that exist along Texas’ 80,000 miles of roadways may well be the most visible and cared about portion of a roadway to many members of the public, natural resource managers, and especially adjacent landowners.
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