Internet controversy highlights environmental opposition to “cap-and-trade”

Oct 8th, 2009 in Newswire For immediate release: October 8, 2009 Contacts: Brian Tokar, 802-229-0087 briant@pshift.com Rachel Smolker, 802-482-2848 rsmolker@riseup.net A controversial article posted last week on a popular environmental website has inadvertently highlighted environmentalists’ skepticism toward the cap-and-trade provisions of climate legislation now before the US Congress. The article, posted on the environmental news site Grist.org on October 1st, was titled “‘No compromise’ faction attacks climate bill,” and attempted to dismiss the activities of Climate SOS (climatesos.org) and...

“Extremists” at SOS shake things up on GRIST

Oct 4th, 2009 in Featured Articles, In the News, Newswire ‘No Compromise’ Faction Attacks Climate Bill Jonathan Hiskes,  GRIST; Oct 1 2009   The article is interesting sort of, but most interesting is the reaction. See comments following the article (as well as pics and link to video) at Grist website here: http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-01-climate-bill-attacked-from-the-far-left/     Briefly:   Activists handed out fake $2 trillion bills at a rally for climate legislation in New York last week, criticizing the size of the global-warming emissions market they oppose. ($2 trillion is their estimate for the size of the emissions market...

Climate SOS: Senate Bill “Condemns us to Climate Chaos”

Oct 3rd, 2009 in Featured Articles, Press Releases PRESS RELEASE: October 2, 2009   Climate SOS, a coalition of scientists and activists who support science- and environmental justice-based climate legislation, today characterized the draft Senate bill, called the “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act” which was introduced on Wednesday by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) as an “irresponsible non-solution.”   They maintain that any bill that embraces cap and trade, offsets, outrageously inadequate emission reduction targets, and counter-solutions such as biomass burning, nuclear power and more coal fired power...

Climate SOS: Any Old Climate Bill Won’t Do, Time to Scrap Waxman-Markey and Fight for Real Change

Oct 3rd, 2009 in In the News, Newswire By Rachel Smolker, Alternet. Sept 30 2009 A new movement is demanding more from the president, Congress and even most major environmental groups in order to pass truly meaningful climate legislation. The world watched last week’s U.N. climate summit in anxious anticipation, hopeful that our “yes we can” president would say something earth shattering, or at least encouraging. Instead, President Barack Obama promised nothing more than that the U.S. is “determined to take action” on climate change.   While the Maldives are sinking, and floods, droughts, hurricanes and...