Matthew Wheeland

Matthew Wheeland is the managing editor of GreenBiz.com.

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Sierra Club Wins Big Victory Against Coal-Fired Power Plants

By Matthew Wheeland, November 13, 2008

One battle in the ongoing war between environmental groups and the Bush Administration's EPA may finally be over: the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board today handed down a ruling that will essentially hand the reins for regulating CO2 from coal-fired power plants to the Obama administration.

The ruling comes in response to a complaint the Sierra Club filed against a proposed new coal-fired power plant in Bonanza Utah. In the ruling, the appeals board says the EPA should reconsider whether CO2 is considered an air pollutant, and thus should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Most notably, a new decision by the EPA should consider whether or not to require new...

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Scenes from Joel Makower's Book Launch Party

By Matthew Wheeland, October 24, 2008

When GreenBiz.com's Executive Editor Joel Makower wrote his first book, "The Green Consumer," in 1990 he soon realized that there really wasn't any green consumer movement to speak of. Now, after more than 20 years of looking at the growing green movement, Joel says that has changed.

"We've become green consumers almost in spite of ourselves," he explained to Aron Cramer of BSR and a packed room at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club on Wednesday evening..

The occasion was the launch of his latest book, "Strategies for a Green Economy," and in his conversation, Joel ran the gamut not just of how the green consumer movement has evolved over the years, but how business is learning...

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