Dan Becker
Dan Becker
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the Scottish-American preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...
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As soon as you implement a strong, fixed target for reducing oil use, stricter fuel standards will inevitably come into play. Incentives alone won't do the trick.
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The president is the one who said we're addicted to oil. This is his most important tool to curb that addiction.
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We were looking around trying to find answers to this situation.
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We're still wading through the rule and determining what we will do.
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Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.
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This proposal gives automakers another excuse to not make the cars that people want - ones that use available technology to save consumers money at the gas pump and cut pollution. Making our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas is the biggest single step we can take to save money at the gas pump, cut oil dependence, and curb global warming.
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It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to clean up our act.
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Landlords need to be more accountable for the people in their buildings. It is not OK to have four or five or six or 10 people sleeping in an apartment designed for three, and it's not good for the community.
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It boils down to this: They get to make two more gas-guzzlers for every FFV they put out. There's no way Detroit would be producing these cars if they weren't allowed to weaken miles-per-gallon standards in return.
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He's been both a hope and a disappointment. He's a hope because he keeps saying the right things. He's a disappointment because he hasn't been able to deliver them yet.
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We'll continue to have a major presence and impact here. These latest asset decisions are aimed at strengthening our ability to continue to succeed in the global market, which is critical to our future as a major employer here in Puget Sound.
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We hope that helping to make the Mercury Mariner Hybrid a success will encourage Ford to invest in better technology to increase the fuel economy of its entire fleet.
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The question, I believe, is from where did they come? I have no reasonable assurance that they came from St. John's Church.
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In fact, when you burn coal, you emit more acid rain pollution, more air pollution, more smog and more global warming pollution which threatens the entire planet.