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Clean Water is Good for Business, and for Beer!
This 2012 guest blog post was written by Jenn Vervier, special to We All Live Downstream. At the time Jenn worked as Director of Strategic Development for New Belgium Brewing. This first appeared in The Huffington Post. At New Belgium Brewing, we not only make Fat Tire Amber Ale and about 15 other beers at one time, we also cultivate our Alternatively Empowered culture. New Belgium Brewing takes pride in being a responsible corporate role model with progressive programs such as employee ownership, open book management, and a commitment to environmental stewardship. We also strive to leverage
Colorado’s “Big Oil” Congressmen Make Us Pay Twice for Gasoline
Fat Cat takes photos with drivers calling an end to taxpayer handouts to Big Oil By Staff From Aurora to Pueblo – the heart of swing-voting Colorado – environmental groups are calling out U.S. Representatives Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton for making people pay twice for gasoline. On tax day, 2012, Clean Water Action and Colorado Conservation Voters held events at gas stations where drivers filling up at the pump took part in a photo petition with a costumed “Big Oil Fat Cat” calling for an end to special tax breaks and subsidies to the oil and gas industry. Big Oil companies get $9.4 billion
On Coal Ash Waste and A Dedication to Polluters
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Coordinator "Look what they've loaded it up," LaHood continued. "Keystone; Coal ash. None of it has anything to do with transportation." - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Coal ash is nasty. It's what's left over when we burn coal to produce electricity and it's full of dangerous, cancer-causing toxins. Coal ash is the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. and we regulate it less than the trash bin under our sinks. The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on whether to block vital new protections from toxic coal ash waste. They passed
Too Toxic Not To Regulate
A 2011 Coal Ash Spill on Lake Michigan By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator Frustrated by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) continued delay in issuing a final rule to protect the public and environment from toxic coal ash pollution, today a group of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit to force EPA to finish its rule. Coal ash, the byproduct of burning coal to produce electricity, contains a concentrated smorgasbord of nasty metals – including arsenic, lead, mercury, and selenium (just to name a few!). Power plants generate over 140 million tons of coal ash
A Tale of Two Washingtons
Can't we end the subsidies? By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Shortly before the U.S. Senate failed to overturn Big Oil subsidies, President Obama spoke in the Rose Garden about the need to set our sights on a clean energy future and to stop handing billions of dollars a year to oil companies who are making record profits. American oil and gas companies are doing just fine, as evidenced not only by record profits but also by the price people are paying at the pump. There’s absolutely no reason they need handouts from U.S. taxpayers. We applaud the U.S. Senators who voted to put an end