Latest Stories in Environmental Policy - Page 2
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Debunking Paul Ryan's energy budget
Think Progress has a good debunking of eight energy-related issues in Paul Ryan's fiscal year 2014 budget.
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Obama "cannot in good conscience" approve Keystone XL: NYTimes
In a Sunday op-ed, The New York Times explains why they think President Obama should reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Pollution now #1 cause of social unrest in China
This has been building up for years, as China rapidly industrialized and urbanized without much regard for the air, water, and land on which the life of its citizens depend.
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Obama nominates Gina McCarthy as new EPA chief
"Every American is—or will soon be—breathing cleaner air because of McCarthy," says Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch.
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Mother Jones lists 6 ways the sequester hurts the environment
Congress is about to allow unnecessary and self-imposed budget cuts negatively impact a whole host of important government programs. Mother Jones notes the potential environmental damage.
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Meet Bill McKibben, the man behind the climate movement
Bloomberg Businessweek has a nice profile of 350.org founder and climate activist, Bill McKibben.
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Smog-forming emissions from U.S. power plants have been declining for 20+ years
It's pretty obvious to anyone who looks back far enough that air quality regulations have had a huge impact, at least when it comes to pollutants other than greenhouse gases.
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Apparently nobody cares about the environment anymore
According to a recent poll, interest in environmental issues has fallen significantly. Blame the economy.
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Gas-burning patio heaters continue to glow in Paris
It's the City of Faint Red Lights as Paris cafés get to keep their patio heaters and overturn a proposed ban.
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Are sidewalks a civic responsibility? Not in Atlanta
One might think that promoting walking as an alternative to driving might be good for cities clogged with cars full of overweight people.
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Is Keystone worth the fight?
David Roberts has an excellent rebuttal to those that argue the fight over Keystone XL pipeline is not worth the fight.
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The most important climate science paper
Want to understand why climate change is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced? Read this six page paper.
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The air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska is worse than in Beijing
But you will have to pry their wood stoves from their cold, dead hands.
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German town goes off the grid, achieves energy independence
Town residents banded together to create their own energy grid fed by wind turbines, solar, and biogas.
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Senators Boxer and Sanders introduce climate bill. Is it DOA? And is that okay?
Senators Boxer and Sanders introduced the Climate Protection Act and Sustainable Energy Act. Will it go anywhere?
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Climate News: media bias, Rubio's denialism and Obama's next steps
There's lots being said and done (sort of) about climate change. Here's a look at the latest.
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President Obama's next steps for a Carbon Tax
After addressing climate change and energy policy in the SOTU, what comes next in terms of action?
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Kentucky takes step towards hemp legalization
The Kentucky state Senate Agriculture Committee voted unanimously to approve legislation for legalizing industrial hemp in the state.
