Our national security, our economic recovery and the future of the United States of America depends on our country taking a leadership role on climate change. And that, in turn, depends on the United States Senate acting.
The will of the American people is being subordinated to the demands of giant money-making machines called global corporations that can now spend or threaten to spend unlimited amounts of money in support of any politician.
The big question remains. All of those 200 million gallons did not vanish. How much oil is buried in beach sands, embedded in marshes, is still dispersed in the water column or is lying on the sea floor?
I was taking a quick look at Leonardo DiCaprio's twitter account, when I saw he has posted on Facebook shots of the solar panels that were used to power some of the set for his movie Inception.
Environmentalists need to be aware of so-called "progressives for immigration reform" and their true motives. These individuals and organizations do not see protecting the environment as their primary goal.
An international team of climate scientists led by the NOAA has confirmed that climate change is "undeniable" and clearly driven by the "human fingerprints" of greenhouse gas emissions.
Over the past 10 years, the BLM has removed some 74,000 wild horses and burros from the range, and it intends to remove a total of 12,000 horses this year. The program is costly, illogical, and has also had tragic consequences.
We are angry and disappointed. The battle must and will continue -- but it is time to shift our focus. The U.S. Senate will not take up comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation prior to the August recess.
Dr. Doug Inkley, senior scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, just returned from another trip to the Gulf Coast. The BP oil disaster is hurting the people who rely on healthy oyster populations.
It's time for the biosphere to figure into more strategic plans -- as a partner and a competitor -- that is constantly adapting.
Home Star would provide incentives to homeowners for energy-efficient retrofits. It is currently part of the proposed Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Accountability Act, which is now before the U.S. Senate.
We observed a somber anniversary this Wednesday: 100 days since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing a dozen workers and setting off one of our nation's most catastrophic natural disasters.
The NRDC has released it's annual survey of water quality at U.S. beaches. You may be astonished to learn that some of America's most popular beaches are also among the most polluted.
Just when you thought the U.S. Senate couldn't do any less for clean energy and the environment than it's (not) done so far, we now face the real possibility of what would amount to a "stop-work order" on the Clean Air Act.
In the deep water, there is virtually no room for error, stupidity or bad design. Add hubris, and you get what we've been dealing with now for 100 days.
The FDA first proposed a rule that would have removed triclosan and triclocarban from soaps in 1978. Until this rule is finalized, these chemicals can be widely used with no regulatory oversight.
A minority of Senators robbed America of comprehensive energy and climate legislation. The officials who steered this turnaround have shown us, and the world, an America woefully deficient in leadership and ingenuity.
In 2009, China became the largest car market in the world, while in the same year there were four million fewer vehicles on the road in the United States. Driving has suddenly become a zero-sum game.
Through a useful regulatory loophole, commonsense safeguards have been absent in the United States' Powder River Basin since 1990.
Bharati Chaturvedi, 2010.07.29
David Kroodsma, 2010.07.29
