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Updated August 30, 2010 Platinum legislature: Taxpayers hurting, but Albany keeps running up the tab Deadbeat Dem Pedro Espada breaks promise to repay $13,500 to Board of Elections Commission votes to putterm limits on November ballot in New York City Subway rides to presumably come with free foot rub, glass of champagne State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. shelling out thousands for fleet of 'Vote for Diaz' vehicles Click here to visit the news archive
NYPIRG Posts 2010 Ethics Filings Legislative Candidates Raise Nearly Half Their Money From Non-Locals System Failure: A Review of New York State's Doctor Discipline System Survey of Retailer Compliance with the Bigger Better Bottle Bill Top 50 Interest Groups Dominate 2009 Lobbying Spending Analysis: Overwhelming Number of New Yorkers Lose in State’s “Member Item Lottery” Albany Money Machine Rolls On: 127 Fundraisers In 2010 A Bitter Pill: A View of New York's Prescription Drug Pricing Website NYPIRG is New York State’s largest research and advocacy non-profit organization primarily focused on environmental preservation, consumer protection, government reform and public health issues. |
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Al Gore’s recent description of the nation’s current energy policy was both succinct and clear: “We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet.” Gore’s observation was right on point and underscored the dismal state of energy policymaking. America’s energy policy is driven by inertia only, despite all evidence that the current policy is putting the nation — and the world — at great risk. Our nation must move to a greener energy policy. Experts at the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Gore last year, have argued that average global temperature increases of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit would lead to catastrophic impacts on the environment and public health. In order to keep temperature increases under that number — and to steer clear of catastrophic environmental damage — industrialized nations must slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050. Some states are already embracing a policy of meeting the challenge to reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050. NYPIRG is urging New York lawmakers not only to embrace policies that are consistent with goals identified in the IPCC report but also to pursue a green energy policy. We need an energy policy that focuses on power production from wind, solar, and other renewable sources and one that reduces energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions through aggressive energy conservation and efficiency programs.
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