{"id":852,"date":"2012-12-17T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:52:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:52:05","slug":"emily-figdor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/emily-figdor\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 41: Environment Maine director Emily Figdor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 41
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, December 15, 2012
\nGuest 1:<\/strong> Carol Coultas
\nGuest 2:<\/strong> Emily Figdor
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Emily<\/a>Emily Figdor is the director of the statewide citizen-based environmental advocacy organization Environment Maine<\/a>. \u00a0For the past 15 years, Figdor has worked in Washington to protect the environment and the health of Americans. \u00a0Most recently, Figdor directed Environment America and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group’s Federal Global Warming Program.<\/p>\n

Figdor sat down with TideSmart Talk host Steve Woods to discuss how she got involved in environmental advocacy and the initiatives Environment Maine is working on in Maine, including its\u00a0current effort to block a\u00a0pipeline\u00a0that would carry tar sands oil to Maine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2010, she led a broad coalition to defeat an effort to block the Clean Air Act’s limits on global warming pollution. \u00a0She also helped win the first-ever federal limits on global warming pollution from new cars and large smokestack industries. \u00a0Figdor has testified multiple times before Congress and has authored dozens of reports on climate and clean air policy.<\/p>\n

She has been quoted regularly on the subject of climate and clean air policy in national media outlets such as The New York TImes, Washington Post and Associated Press. \u00a0In 2006, The Hill newspaper ranked Figdor as one of the “top lobbyists” on global warming.<\/p>\n

Figdor is on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Climate Action Network and the 1Sky Action Fund. \u00a0She lives in Portland with her husband and their two daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily Figdor is the director of the statewide citizen-based environmental advocacy organization Environment Maine. She sat down with TideSmart Talk host Steve Woods to discuss how she got involved in environmental advocacy and the initiatives Environment Maine is working on in Maine, including its current effort to block a pipeline that would carry tar sands oil to Maine. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}