By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
On Friday, in a move that has already caused dismay in industry and among Congressional Republicans, the Obama administration proposed the first-ever federal limits on power plant emissions of carbon dioxide, which account for nearly 40 … Read more »
Scientists announced Friday that Arctic sea ice has officially reached its minimum extent for the summer, shrinking to 5.1 million square kilometers. That’s significantly higher than last year’s record low of just over 3.4 million square kilometers, a fact that … Read more »
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday ordered the operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant to scrap all six reactors at the site instead of just four scheduled for decommissioning and to concentrate on tackling pressing … Read more »
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday announced that it was not backing down from a confrontation with the coal industry and that it would press ahead with enacting the first federal carbon limits on the … Read more »
By Katrina vanden Heuvel.
Five years after the onset of the worst financial collapse in our history, we still have not recovered. President Obama used the fifth anniversary of the financial collapse to remind Americans of the “perfect storm” he … Read more »
By Richard Schiffman, Guardian UK
23,000 people die each year in the US from overuse of antibiotics. We should regulate antibiotic use in agriculture
Remember pink slime – that Dayglo-bright mash of ground up meat scraps and cow connective tissues … Read more »
By Robert Redford.
The Keystone XL and tar sands expansion have no place in a clean energy future
I can understand why oil companies love tar sands. There is a lot of money to be made by strip mining and … Read more »
It is time for people to tell the White House we need leadership and to tell their Congressional representatives they want action on Climate Change.
By Dr. Reese Halter
Later this month in Stockholm The United Nations panel on climate … Read more »
By Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone
Scientists are fighting deniers with irrefutable proof the planet is headed for catastrophe.
On September 27th, a group of international scientists associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will gather in an old brick … Read more »
By Center for Food Safety
Chemical and agribusiness powerhouse Monsanto has just invested $4.5 million to defeat the I-522 campaign, a state ballot initiative to require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the state of Washington. The initiative … Read more »
