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EarthTalk: Republicans and the Environment
EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear Earthtalk: Where do the leading candidates for the Republican...
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Citizen Journalism and Popular Media’s Climate Fail
The popular media has failed to communicate the science behind climate change. The public does not understand the science of anthropogenic global warming and the urgent need for climate action. We...
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Environmental Bill of Rights Put Forward in Nova Scotia
Last week Nova Scotia’s New Democratic Party (NDP) introduced an Environmental Bill of Rights in the provincial legislature. The proposed bill would enhance transparency of the government...
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EarthTalk: Can Trump Renege on the Paris Agreement?
EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Why does Donald Trump think we should renegotiate the Paris...
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Eroding Trust in Science: The Implications of Big Sugar’s Lies
A lie remains a lie long after it is told. The subterfuge of industry to serve it’s bottom line at the public’s expense is a crime that warrants public outrage. We have recently seen evidence of this...
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Trudeau Administration Launches Pan-Canadian Carbon Pollution Pricing Plan
Canada’s federal government launched a nationwide carbon pollution pricing plan proposal yesterday, October 3. Setting a benchmark for pricing carbon emissions will increase certainty for Canadian...
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The Art of the Possible: Paris Agreement Comes Into Force
The mood in Paris last December was unmistakable, the optimism palpable. After decades of gridlock and disappointment, the negotiation at the COP21 climate conference held to its promise of progress....
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Environmental Advocacy Under a Trump Presidency
Election 2016, the morning after Wednesday morning, coming to grips with a Trump presidency: The slow motion wreck that was election 2016 has finally ended, the smoke has cleared, and now we find...
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John Kerry Gives Impassioned Speech at COP22
“I’m not a Cassandra, but I am a realist. Time is not on our side.” – John Kerry at COP22 Secretary of State John Kerry pulled no punches in a speech at the COP22 climate talks, now in their second...
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Sustainability in Our New Political Climate
One of the most controversial and terrifying things about president-elect Donald Trump is that he has openly admitted to not believing global warming exists. A president who rejects scientific proof...
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Two-Thirds of Americans Prioritize Alternative Energy over Fossil Fuels
President Donald J. Trump didn’t waste any time taking action on climate change. The Trump administration wiped climate change from the White House website upon taking office Jan. 20, replacing it...
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American Geophysical Union Open Letter Urging Protection of Scientific Integrity
Sequoia National Park – NASA It is not unusual for incoming administrations to enact temporary hiring freezes or communications advisories. However, what has happened in the past few days bodes ill for...
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Global Energy Decarbonization Tipping Point At Hand, IRENA Asserts
Worldwide energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions can be reduced 70 percent by 2050 and phased out completely by 2060, and with net positive effects on the global and national economies,...
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Executive Order Guts Clean Power Plan : Trump’s Imaginary War on Coal has...
This morning, under the cover of “energy independence,” U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a rewrite of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. The Plan is the cornerstone of U.S....
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Former EPA Employee Once Again Blasts Scott Pruitt for Failure of Leadership
“To protect human health and the environment” The following open letter from former EPA employee Michael Cox. After 25 years with the agency, Cox retired last March. Upon his departure from EPA Cox...
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Environmental and Consumer Groups and 11 States Sue Trump Administration
Energy efficiency is the low-hanging fruit of greenhouse gas reductions. The Department of Energy published five new energy efficiency standards at the end of December, slated to take effect on March...
View Article23 Attorneys General Respond to Trump Administration’s Changes to NEPA
Tump's proposed changes to NEPA, the fundamental and venerable foundation of environmental regulation, sparks lawsuit from attorneys general. The post 23 Attorneys General Respond to Trump...
View ArticleThe U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision Striking Down EPA’s Regulation of...
The EPA ruling handed down by the Supreme Court's conservative majority shackles EPA climate pollution regulation under the Clean Air Act. The post The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision Striking Down EPA’s...
View ArticleSetback for Senator Manchin’s Mountain Valley Pipeline Deal
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) requested the withdrawal of his legislation that would have approved the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Manchin’s legislation, the Energy Independence and Security […] The post...
View ArticleAnother Republican Presidency Will Harm the Environment
The GOP's obsession with fossil fuel development at all cost is dangerous for the environment, the economy, and national security. The post Another Republican Presidency Will Harm the Environment...
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