On Sunday, April 17, hundreds of climate activists from around the region were joined by hundreds of climate activists from around the country (who were attending the biannual Power Shift conference) for CCAN’s fifth-annual Artists for the Climate. Continue reading
Climate Polluter Wants Equal Rights for Coal Plants
According to the Mirant Corporation
Tea Party helps pass carbon tax
The Montgomery County Council passed the nation’s first county-level carbon tax on Wednesday thanks in part to a little heckling from a group of rowdy Tea-Party protesters.
It would be hard to dream up a more delightful twist to cap off a campaign that was about as dramatic as they come in the world of county politics. Desperate to prevent what they rightly saw as a precedent that could unleash an avalanche of similar laws across the country, the Mirant Corporation