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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: larger"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">September 13, 2010: </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>Year On Track To Be Hottest On
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<P><IMG alt="" align=right src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4775437101_a878c5e130.jpg" width=330 height=210>2010 is still on course to become the hottest year on
record. According to NASA's surface temperature data, <A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OOVAK4fl/5TEvYHUKZmpIC9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OOVAK4fl%2F5TEvYHUKZmpIC9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank>this year's January-August period was the warmest ever
recorded</A>.</P>
<P><A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5HPpr9Ju+eShVMXnNbqL6i9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5HPpr9Ju%2BeShVMXnNbqL6i9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank>ICLEI-Local Government for Sustainability USA </A>issued a
statement <A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hS1mJxM9yl5Ioo2EEMnZgNOQafbDjNqi href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hS1mJxM9yl5Ioo2EEMnZgNOQafbDjNqi" target=blank>criticizing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for
their opposition to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)</A> programs.
The programs, which help home owners finance clean energy and energy
efficiency projects with loans tied to property taxes, have been halted by
due to pressure from Fannie and Freddie.</P>
<P>Governors Chet Culver (D. - Iowa) Don Carcieri (R. - Rhode Island) say
<A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LqmHDSe7e9TYAYZcYmptHC9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LqmHDSe7e9TYAYZcYmptHC9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank>America's job-creating potential</A> cannot be realized
without the passage of a national renewable energy standard.</P>
<P>The Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program <A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=/pzrt1m3iTnanmtsg9kfXi9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Fpzrt1m3iTnanmtsg9kfXi9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank>makes the case for cap-and-trade</A>.</P>
<P>A <EM>Reuters</EM> special report examines the<A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WeFizcSifaHBmiUj6lvHNy9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WeFizcSifaHBmiUj6lvHNy9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank> infrastructural challenges facing the mass adoption of
electric vehicles</A>.</P>
<P>Scientists say<A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bKvxD8cwdkX5fqTsvqs5zS9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bKvxD8cwdkX5fqTsvqs5zS9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank> infusing yeast with genes from a fungus that can digest
materials like grass and wood chips</A> could help make ethanol become
cost-competitive.</P>
<P><EM>Local Green:</EM> A pilot program that could cut Philadelphia's
electricity bill by 40 percent will <A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kFfCq6n4YNDxBMt1XmC8my9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kFfCq6n4YNDxBMt1XmC8my9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank>harness the energy of braking subway trains to power the
city's transit system</A> and electricity grid.</P>
<P>A new study from UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy, and the
Environment finds that ballot proposition 23 - which would suspend the
implementation of the state's global warming legislation - would mean <A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Lm5JjMomZ2oGIJdJbGrLhS9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Lm5JjMomZ2oGIJdJbGrLhS9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank>job losses for California</A>.</P>
<P>A piece in <EM>the New York Times</EM> <A title=http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ewe9iYv9aCn4lGu2WluBYi9jy7KUX+p5 href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ewe9iYv9aCn4lGu2WluBYi9jy7KUX%2Bp5" target=blank>profiles Texas's </A>efforts to become a clean energy
leader.</P>
<P><EM>--Christopher Greenspan</EM></P>
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