Environmental Policy

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Civil Society Sounds Off on IFC Policies in Istanbul

Chad Dobson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Istanbul, Social Justice, Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Economic Development, World Bank, International Finance Corporation, International Financial Institutions, Indigenous Rights, Civil Society, Indigenous People, Business News

One German participant summarized: "The IFC places all of the burden of environmental and social safeguards on the client ... The whole world is re-regulating and you should too."

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The Walls Come Tumbling Down: Is Stonewalling Finally Over on Energy?

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Renewable Energy, Energy, Utilities, Climate Change, Environmental Policy, Fossil Fuels, Climate Bill, Green News

Now that even the most staunch critics have conceded that the US needs to reduce emissions, it's time to stop sitting on our hands and commit to weaning off fossil fuels.

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The Tide Turns: At Long Last, Federal Chemical Regulation Given Priority

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical Regulation, Toxic Substances, Environmental Policy, Consumer Products, Nontoxic Products, Healthy Child Healthy World, Impact News

It's special when an advocate bears witness to a tidal shift in attitude and action around a cause. I experienced just that when EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced recently that her agency, with the White House, is ready to get tough on toxic chemicals.

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Age of Stupid: Environmentalism is Alive and Well

Ryan Mickle | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Policy, Water Bottles, Pete Postlethwaite, Environmentalism, The Age of Stupid, Hurricane Katrina, Global Warming Pollution, Green Living, Global Warming, Green News

We're still screwed, even if we drive Priuses and buy organic food and less toxic home cleaning products. Either we completely reinvent the way we live, or the fat lady sings. And she is warming up in back room.

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Murkowski Staffer Confuses 'Reporter' With 'Tape Recorder'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Lisa Murkowski, Cap and Trade, U.S. Senate, Environmental Policy, Media Criticism, Media News

There is so much to enjoy in this piece on Enviroknow, in which a blogger contacts Senator Lisa Murkowski's office to ask about a bogus set of talking...

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Pinon Canyon: Judge Rules Army Failed To "Adequately Assess Environmental Impacts"

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Fort Carson, Environmental Policy, US Army, Colorado Springs, Pinon Canyon, Denver News

DENVER (AP) - A federal judge has thrown out an environmental review of the Army's plan to increase operations at a training site in southeast Colorad...

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Private Security Walks Off The Job in Protest; Coal Company Goes Too Far

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, West Virginia, Epa, Mountain Top Removal, James Hansen, Daryl Hannah, Climate Change, Coal Mining, Coal, Tree-Hugger, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Policy, Environment, Green News

Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks spent the past week tree-sitting 80 feet above the ground in an act of civil disobedience protesting Massey Energy's mountaintop removal site there.

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Guess What Else Cost a Trillion

Joshua Keyak | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environment, Green, Fossil Fuels, Health Care, Healthcare, Environmental Policy, Environmentalism, Green Economy, Green Living, Green Energy, Green News

We must live more sustainable lifestyles, not only for our own individual health and pocket book but also for the well-being of others.

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Fighting Sprawl Through the Ballot Box

Ernest Cook | Posted 09.20.2009 | New York

Read More: The Trust for Public Land, Environment, Conservation, Preservation, The Conservation Campaign, Environmental Policy, New York News

For all the environmental reasons to rein in sprawl and conserve land and water, there are very human ones, too.

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Cap-and-Trade: A Fly in the Ointment?

Robert Stavins | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Regulation, Cap and Trade, Markets, Environmental Policy, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Green News

Cap-and-trade systems, in which emission permits or allowances can be traded among potential polluters, continue today to be at the center of this action.

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The Green Standard

Jeffrey Hollender | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmentalism, Environmental Policy, Green Living, Green Technology, Environmental Certification, Green Guide, Green Certification, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Good Guide, Green News

Having spent more than two decades pushing back against the sometimes appreciable damage that "greenwashed" products can wreak, I think a green product certifying agency has a lot of merit.

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LobbyBlog

Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Environmental Policy, Lobbying, Bank Reform, Health Care Reform, Mobile, Business News

Click here for the latest from the new and improved LobbyBlog! August 29, 2009 WALL STREET PLANS DELAY TACTICS TO FIGHT DERIVATIVES OVERHAUL The Oba...

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How Green Is Al Franken?

treehugger.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Senate, Environmental Policy, Al Franken, Environment, Green, Filibuster, Minnesota, Al Franken Minnesota, Green News

Franken brings the number of Democratic senators to 60, meaning they'll have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. So what does all this mean for...

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National Climate Change Policy: A Quick Look Back at Waxman-Markey and the Road Ahead

Robert Stavins | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Administration, Cap and Trade, Environmental Policy, Waxman-Markey, Green News

The Waxman‑Markey bill has its share of flaws, but it represents a reasonable starting point for Senate deliberation on what can become a national climate policy.

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WaPo Fires Dan Froomkin, Stalwart Voice On Torture (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Twitter, Environmental Policy, Media Criticism, Defense Policy, Dan Froomkin, Iran, Defense Spending, Iran Elections, Torture, Media News

I have to say that I greet today's decision by the Washington Post to fire blogger and columnist Dan Froomkin to be both sad and alarming. Froomkin h...

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Mike Pence Uses Bogus Numbers To Raise "Tax Hike" Alarm (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Video, Environmental Policy, Carbon Emissions, Barack Obama, Andrea Mitchell, Mike Pence, Politics News

Media Monitor Susan flags a segment from this afternoon's coverage on MSNBC. In it, Congressman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) appeared, holding forth with Andr...

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The Making of a Conventional Wisdom

Robert Stavins | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Markets, Environmental Policy, Environment, Green News

Despite the potential cost-effectiveness of market-based policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradable permits, conventional approaches have been the mainstay of U.S. environmental policy.

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Green News Report (AUDIO)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green

Read More: George Will Climate Change, Automaker Bailout, Environmental Policy, George Will, Green Technology, Green News, Environment, George Will Global Warming, Green News Report, Auto Industry, Green News

Welcome aboard to our new partner/affiliate: Huffington Post GREEN! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The electrical grid under cyber-attack; No salmon for C...

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Using Markets to Make Fisheries Sustainable

Robert Stavins | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Cap and Trade, Markets, Environmental Policy, Tragedy of the Commons, ITQs, Sustainable Food, Fish, Sustainability, Sustainable Fishing, Individual Transferable Quotas, Fisheries, Seafood, Green News

What has long been considered the obvious answer to collapsing fisheries -- restrictions on fishing -- has been shown time and time again to be the wrong answer. The right answer is enlightened use of markets.

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Rep. Shimkus: Carbon Emissions Are Really "Plant Food"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Video, Environmental Policy, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, John Shimkus, Idiots, Politics News

Not to get depressing on a Monday, but people who hope that our government will be the engine of important and needed societal change would do well to...

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A Tale of Two Taxes

Robert Stavins | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Jobs, Environmental Policy, Economics, Gas Tax, Taxes, Oil Prices, Oil, Green News

A gas tax increase could make most American households better off, while reducing oil imports, local pollution, urban congestion, road accidents, and global climate change.

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As Reservoirs Fall, Prices Should Rise

Robert Stavins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Policy, Economics, Water, Water Usage, Drought, California Drought, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Water Crisis, Green News

Throughout the United States, water is under-priced. Efficient use of water will take place only when the price reflects the actual additional cost of making that water available.

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Dirty Coal Has Left the Building: Live Blog from DC

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Policy, Green News, Carol Browner, Climate Change, Steven Chu, President Obama, Ran, Capitol Climate Action, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Energy, Greenpeace, Cancer, Green Energy, Coal, Green News

Author Bill McKibben held down the corner of the park with plenty of media cameras. He declared simply: "Coal is killing the planet. Green energy is going to drive us out of this recession."

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Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie

Steve Fleischli | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Policy, Clean Coal, Water Pollution, Water, Environment, Coal, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Green News

Even if carbon capture and sequestration technology existed to remove these emissions, it still wouldn't make coal clean. From cradle to grave, coal is inherently filthy.

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Al Gore Asks Scientists to Take Up Politics

Susan Cosier | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: An Inconvenient Truth, Climate Change, Al Gore, Clean Coal, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, Environmental Policy, Global Warming, Green News

"The solution to this crisis depends on the spread of science into the world of politics," said Al Gore. Now that we have new leadership, we have to make a decision as a species.

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