Following a federal court decision to deny an injunction blocking the Dakota Access pipeline, three federal agencies impose a limited, “voluntary” temporary halt on construction of one small section.
Read more...Jerri-Lynn here. This short post highlights an important problem that we’ve seen arise over and over again with the administration which pledged to be the most transparent ever: the disconnect between public rhetoric and behind-the-scenes practice. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) presides over the allocation of oil and gas […]
Read more...Insurers and finance pressure governments to end $444 billion in fossil fuel subsidies.
Read more...Policy implementing the Maine Solid Waste hierarchy should be justified using emergy as the unit of account, and not dollars.
Read more...Why the Democratic party plans for taking on climate change are grossly inadequate.
Read more...Demonstrating that public housing can be attractive and environmentally responsible.
Read more...A debate on sustainable growth versus degrowth.
Read more...How Portland is working to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% and reduce its environmental load on other fronts.
Read more...Clinton’s fracking reversal will alienate the energy industry without appeasing environmentalists, since fracking produces methane and earthquakes.
Read more...This Real News Network segment marshals data to make a provocative argument: there are more ways to decouple carbon emissions and GDP growth than most observers believe.
Read more...Sanders lists demands for Clinton if he fails to get the nomination…and it includes demands like single payer that are so far from her current position that it is inconceivable that she will give them lip service.
Read more...Why 2017 could be an event horizon as far as climate change is concerned.
Read more...Updated climate models indicate that temperatures and storms will be getting much worse in the next 10-20 years.
Read more...The big obstacle to reducing carbon emissions isn’t economic costs, but inertia and the impact on powerfully placed special interests.
Read more...The Fukushima site is still leaking radioactive water and the cleanup and remediation will take decades.
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