Needing Another Gulf Coast Coal Terminal Like a Hole in the Head

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans        Recently meeting with environmental organizers and researchers at an annual strategy conference in New York City, I heard one report after another about proposed coal terminals on the West Coast that were being abandoned as demand from China decreases and its own growing environmental awareness around climate increases.  The prospects for coal fired …

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Tides Recognizes BP Environmental Warriors on Long Gulf Coast Marathon Fight

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans     Twenty-two years ago the Tides Foundation began giving the Jane Bagley Lehman Public Advocacy Awards on an almost annual basis to largely unrecognized local grassroots organizers and activists making a huge difference on major issues in what I have always called “the vineyards.”  During my more than 30 years on the board of …

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