This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.
Check out Stephen Colbert on the EPA’s decision to delay regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s hilarious.
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This post is by Jackie Roberts, director of sustainable technologies at Environmental Defense Fund.
In the midst of reports of six straight months of U.S. job losses, there were two reports on a more hopeful note:
The Worldwatch Institute finding that green economy jobs were increasing as other jobs declined was part of their Vital Signs Update. From Senior Researcher Michael Renner:
Renewables are poised to tackle our energy crisis and create millions of new jobs worldwide.
This post is by Tony Kreindler, media director for the National Climate Campaign at Environmental Defense Fund.
Quick post because I’m about to get on an airplane to join the migration to Austin for Netroots Nation 2008…
Environmental Defense Fund is hosting a reception in Exhibit Hall 4, Saturday evening at 7pm, just before the keynote speech. If you’re attending the conference, stop by for free beer and to meet Lisa Moore, myself, and some EDF folks from the Austin office.
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.
There was a great editorial in Sunday’s Waco Tribune. It starts like this:
It takes quite a leap of faith to see Texas as a national leader in global warming solutions.
But if there’s anything Texas has plenty of, it’s faith – from Protestant evangelical fervor to contemplative Catholic spirituality to Eastern mysticism and beyond.
And in growing numbers, communities of faith across Texas are moving by leaps and bounds to respond to the moral imperative of global warming.
This post is by Lisa Moore, Ph.D., a scientist in the Climate and Air program at Environmental Defense Fund. You can meet Lisa at the Netroots Nation conference, July 17-20.
Congress and producer groups are pressuring the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to release millions of acres from Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts and open them up to crop production. Supporters say this move would increase production and bring down food prices.
Wrong! Ripping up conservation lands would not make a big dent in commodity supplies or prices, but it would waste billions of taxpayer dollars that have been invested in conservation on these lands.
It also would be a tragedy for wildlife, water quality, and climate.
This post is by Tom Olson, a consulting attorney for the Climate and Air Campaign at Environmental Defense Fund.
Last Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally released its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – EPA’s answer to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases fall within the Clean Air Act’s definition of "pollutant".
There are a number of differences between the final document and the leaked May 30th draft. (See this post from a Georgetown Law professor praising the draft’s balance and expertise.) Most significantly, EPA chief Stephen Johnson prefaced the document with a series of denunciations by White House officials. And then, adopting the views of the White House, he disparaged the work of his own staff.
The final version also included some disturbing changes to the analysis itself.
