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Delaware News
- 06/30/08 - States Taking Initiative on Environmental & Climate Crisis while Feds Do Little or Nothing
- 06/11/08 - Move Over MoveOn: Grassroots Netroots Alliance (GNA) Launches New Progressive Campaign to 'Press the Politicians'
- 06/09/08 - Bay Advocates Called Soft on Farm Pollution
- 06/06/08 - Kent County, DE, Wants Answers on Wal-Mart
- 05/20/08 - State Zeroes in on Millsboro's Cluster
- 05/15/08 - Center for American Progress: What Are You Paying for the War?
- 05/09/08 - Governor Hopefuls Urge Investigations
- 04/29/08 - No Money for Cancer Studies, Del. Says
- 04/25/08 - High Incidence Seen in Most Polluted Areas
- 04/11/08 - Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars
- 04/05/08 - Flexible Flow Plan Could Ease Delaware River Flooding
- 03/26/08 - DE: Take Action for Wind Power
- 03/20/08 - Deadline to Clean Chesapeake By 2010 Probably Won't Be Met
- 03/15/08 - Report Shows Toxic Emissions from Delaware Industries Up Sharply
- 01/22/08 - Offshore Wind Power Resolution Introduced in Delaware Legislature
- 01/20/08 - Election Fraud & Paperless Ballots: Congress Must Act Fast to Address Looming National Emergency
- 01/18/08 - Hazardous Wastes Pile Up in Households
- 01/17/08 - 11 Groups Sue Energy Dept. Over Power Line Corridor
- 01/02/08 - Watermen Behind Razor Wire
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From the Delaware Audubon Society:
Bringing wind power production to Delaware would create economic benefits of $750 million over 25 years by eliminating the following greenhouse gas emissions:
1.35 billion pounds of carbon dioxide (the primary cause of global warming)
14.4 million pounds of sulfur oxides (the primary cause of acid rain)
5.17 million pounds of nitrogen oxides (the key ingredient in smog pollution)
Tell the governor and your state legislators to support the Bluewater Wind project!
Last updated: 3/26/08
Delaware Legislative Roundup
From Progressive States Network)
In a lackluster session, state legislators succeeded in creating the nation's first sustainable energy utility, but failed to address a number of issues, including sprawl, which is taxing the state's infrastructure of roads and schools.
Clean Energy: The sustainable energy utility, which one lawmaker called one of the General Assembly's most important actions this year, will be a non-profit organization promoting the use of sustainable energy and subsidizing the cost of energy-efficient appliances and motor vehicles, as well as home and business-based renewable energy systems.
Workers Rights: Gains were made by enacting collective bargaining rights for state workers. Achieving collective bargaining rights for state employees is attributed to a pick-up of seats in the House by Democrats, a bipartisan overhaul of the state's workers' compensation law, and a compromise between labor and business groups, which will save businesses money.
Other Advances: The legislature enacted an early childhood education bill, a resolution expressing solidarity with the people of the Darfur region in the Sudan, and Delaware became the second-to-last state to enact legislation creating a needle exchange program, which promises to help reduce the spread of blood-borne diseases caused by drug injection use like HIV and Hepatitis C. New Jersey is now the only state without a law authorizing a needle exchange program.
State Inaction: The legislature entered facing a $1.5 billion road construction deficit and paying the state's share of mushrooming school construction costs, driven by more than a decade of housing growth. Leaders failed to even debate measures to rein in sprawl or help to pay for the infrastructure improvements needed to deal with it. For at least the third session in a row, lawmakers failed to add sexual orientation to the state's anti-discrimination laws. And little progress was made in dealing with health care issues facing the state's residents.
Take Action. Support Green Jobs!
The Green Jobs Act of 2007 authorized $125 million per year to create an Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program as an amendment to the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). The Green Jobs Act (GJA) is an initial pilot program to identify needed skills, develop training programs, and train workers for jobs in a range of industries - including energy efficient building, construction and retrofits, renewable electric power, energy efficient vehicles, biofuels, and manufacturing that produces sustainable products and uses sustainable processes and materials. It targets a broad range of populations for eligibility, but has a special focus on creating "green pathways out of poverty."
Congress has not yet appropriated money for the Green Jobs Act. Please contact your Senator today and urge them to fund the Green Jobs Act of 2007!
Read more at Green for All's web site.
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