As some of you reading my blog will already know, in 2005 Congress created the “Halliburton Loophole” when it exempted the oil and gas production technique called hydraulic fracturing from federal regulation under the
Yesterday I posted my favorite blog entries of 2009. Today I’ll give you my picks for the year’s top ten smart growth stories and, in some cases, disappointing non-stories. It’s admittedly a very subjective and idiosyncratic list, comprising only the happenings that seemed most significant to me
Media audiences across the world took notice as Copenhagen police arrested hundreds of activists at the peak of the United Nations climate conference that ended last Saturday.
President Obama addressed a group of small business, labor and industry leaders at a Home Depot in Alexandria, Virginia, yesterday morning to highlight the importance of providing consumers with incentives to invest in energy efficiency.
Most summers, my family rents a house near Little Sebago Lake in Maine for a week. It’s a fantastic escape from the daily grind – we kayak, we swim, we go tubing, we fish, and I get out and go birding. (This area is home to lots of cool birds, including the common loon.
The Copenhagen Accord was adopted Saturday by a margin of 188-5.
Nearly every nation in the world embraced the agreement, signaling support by "taking note" of it. In the parlance of U.N. consensus process, to "take note" means to agree to or accept, U.N. Assistant Secretary-Gen. Robert Orr explained in a Saturday press conference.
"It has the same effect," said Orr.
Yesterday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a speech to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. In it, he said that “the world's governments alone cannot make the progress that is needed on global climate change.
Robert Redford is an actor, director and longtime trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Copenhagen, Denmark - U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are set to grow 0.3 percent in 2010 assuming no additional policies for carbon mitigation are implemented next year, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday.
