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In a Times Picayune article on the environmental community’s letter to President Obama calling for stronger drilling regulations, Peter Lehner spoke about the industry wide “systemic failure to put safety first” that lead to the Deepwater Horizon blowout nearly one year ago, and stressed the need to implement stronger regulations to ensure safety… In a Reuters article, Jake Schmidt discussed the agenda for the next international climate convention in Durban, Africa, emphasizing that the progress made at the climate convention in Cancun last December needs to be incorporated… David Pettit co-authored an oped for the Los Angeles Times in defense of the California Environmental Quality Act, which requires careful research into the environmental impacts of new development projects…
The New York Times reported on an NRDC litigation victory that will force PPG Industries of Pittsburgh to clean up chromium waste, a known carcinogen, from a Jersey City neighborhood… McClatchy Newspapers quoted David Lennett on the limited mercury content in energy efficient light bulbs… In an OffManhattan.com Earth Day article, also published on HuffingtonPost, Jenny Iselin shares some tips on how to be a little greener this Earth Day