Donald Boesch:
Fran Ulmer looks somewhat reasonable:
In the oil-based economy of Alaska, Ulmer said during a failed campaign for governor that she strongly supported opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling. But she was criticized in the state for not supporting drilling enthusiastically enough. [ALTHOUGH]
Ulmer, a lawyer and former mayor of Juneau, has also been a member of the Commission on Arctic Climate Change run by the Aspen Institute, a Colorado think tank.
Cherry Murray, seems like a good person:
Characteristic you most admire: Integrity. Despite politics, when a person has chosen to do the right thing because they have strength of character. Characteristic you least admire: Someone who is self serving.
Under Beinecke, the NRDC is continuing the fight for environmental justice. In their current high profile case, Massachusetts vs. EPA, the NRDC team hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that the EPA must regulate carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to global warming. [SNIP]
Beinecke was not always the activist she is at NRDC. “I didn’t grow up thinking about the environment,” she said. Her eyes opened at the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, when 20 million people from around the country rallied for the environment.
Terry Garcia, global warming advocate
It is the NOAA which coordinates the disciplines and change of the earth's climate. "We are warming," said Garcia. "In fact, the changes are significant, and the most discernable ever observed in the past 1,000 years -- either by recorded data, or earlier measures such as study of ice fossils.
Even NPR notices:
What will leap out at many people about President Barack Obama's choices for his panel that will examine the causes of the BP oil spill and make recommendations on how to safely continue off-shore drilling is that it doesn't have any oil-industry execs. Instead, the members the president named Monday hail from academia or environmental groups.
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