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Brown to Green: A New Use For Blighted Industrial Sites

By Yale Environment 360 on July 11, 2011 Comments Off on Brown to Green: A New Use For Blighted Industrial Sites Bethlehem Steel Mill, Brownfields, Chase Huntley, Cleanfields Act, Cleanfields Investment Act, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado Brownfields Foundation, Colorado Springs, concentrating solar photovoltaic array, Dave Levitan, energy, EPA, Fort Carson, Frank Lautenberg, Gail Mosey, global warming skeptics, green energy, hazardous waste, industrial waste, James Inhofe, Jesse Silverstein, Jr, Lackawanna, landfills, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lura Matthews, molybdenum, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, national renewable energy portfolio standard, Navy Yard solar array, New Mexico, New York, NREL, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Questa, Re-Powering America’s Land initiative, recycle, renewable energy sites, solar panels, solar photovoltaic, Stringfellow, Superfund, U.S. Army, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wilderness Society, Williams Agate, wind farm

Brown to Green: A New Use For Blighted Industrial Sites

Few places in the U.S. are as well suited to developing renewable energy as the contaminated sites known as “brownfields.” But as communities from Philadelphia to California are discovering, government support is critical to enable solar and wind entrepreneurs to make use of these abandoned lands.

Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy of Doubt

By Yale Environment 360 on June 21, 2010 5 Comments acid rain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History, Benjamin Santer, Cato Institute, CEI, climate data sets, climate science, climate scientists, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Cooler Heads Coalition, DDT, environmentalists, Erik M. Conway, fossil fuels, Frederick Seitz.National Academy of Sciences, Gene Likens, George C. Marshall Institute, George Keyworth, Global Climate Coalition, global warming, global warming deniers, greenhouse gases, Heartland Institute, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, James Inhofe, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Naomi Creskes, NASA, Oklahoma, ozone depletion, President Reagan, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, San Diego, scientific cleansing, SDI, second-hand smoke, Strategic Defense Initiative, University of California

Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy of Doubt

For years, free-market fundamentalists opposed to government regulation have sought to create doubt in the public’s mind about the dangers of smoking, acid rain, and ozone depletion. Now they have turned those same tactics on the issue of global warming and on climate scientists, with significant success.