Global Warming Reports

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America on the Move: State Leadership in the Fight Against Global Warming and What it Means for the World	2009-12-04
A review of dozens of individual state policies suggests that state actions will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 536 million metric tons by 2020. That is more global warming pollution than is currently emitted by all but eight of the world’s nations, and represents approximately seven percent of U.S. global warming pollution in 2007.
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America's Biggest Polluters: Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants in 2007	2009-11-24
Our long-time dependence on fossil fuels is a threat to our future. Most importantly, it fuels global warming—the most profound environmental problem of our time, with ever-growing impacts that will impose threats to our safety and immense financial cost on our society. Power plants are the single largest source of U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the main pollutant that fuels global warming. This report examines CO2 emissions of America's power plants. We analyze 2007 plant-by-plant data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Acid Rain Program; 2007 is the most recent year for which final data is available. The report finds that America's power is dirty – and also very old – and that these two qualities tend to go hand-in-hand.
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New Energy Reports

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Plug-in Cars: Powering America Toward a Cleaner Future	2010-01-20
America’s current fleet of gasoline-powered cars and trucks leaves us dependent on oil, contributes to air pollution problems that threaten our health, and produces large amounts of global warming pollution. “Plug-in” cars are emerging as an effective way to lower global warming emissions, oil use and smog. The technology needed to build workable plug-in vehicles exists today, but it will take a coherent strategy and concerted action in order to take full advantage of the potential of plug-in vehicles.
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Getting On Track: Record Transit Ridership Increases Energy Independence	2009-09-22
Transportation is responsible for more than two-thirds of our nation’s oil consumption and nearly a third of our carbon dioxide emissions. To make us more energy independent and reduce pollution, we need to build a transportation system that uses less oil, takes advantage of alternative fuels, and shifts as much of our travel as possible from transportation modes that consume a lot of energy to those that consume less.
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Protect Lake Michigan Reports

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Wasting our Waters: Toxic Industrial Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act	2009-10-21
Industrial facilities continue to dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters each year—threatening both the environment and human health. According to the EPA, pollution from industrial facilities is responsible for threatening or fouling water quality in more than 10,000 miles of rivers and more than 200,000 acres of lakes, ponds and estuaries nationwide.
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Troubled Waters: An analysis of 2005 Clean Water Act compliance	2007-10-11
In passing the Clean Water Act, Congress set the goals of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation's waterways by 1985 and making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983. Although we have made significant progress in improving water quality since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we are far from realizing the Act's original vision.
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