This post is by James Wang, Ph.D., a climate scientist at Environmental Defense.
Climate change denier and U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla) published a report just before Christmas with the headline: "Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007." Does that leave you surprised and wondering? It shouldn’t. It’s a shocker of a headline, but the report itself doesn’t back up the claim.
This post is by Eric Holst, Manager, Center for Conservation Incentives, Environmental Defense.
Everyone can do something to help stop global warming. Here’s an example…
When California passed the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), California rice growers wanted to explore ways to lower their net emissions. But exactly how to go about doing this wasn’t clear, so Environmental Defense teamed up with the California Rice Commission to work on the challenge.
As in other sectors of agriculture, rice farms both produce greenhouse gas emissions (mainly in the form of methane) and sequester carbon in field vegetation and soils. Our two-year project, launched in October, seeks to develop precise techniques – voluntarily implemented – to reduce emissions and increase sequestration, and to quantify emission benefits.
This post is by Vickie Patton, Deputy General Counsel at Environmental Defense, and a former attorney in the EPA’s General Counsel’s office.
Two lawsuits were filed today against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which sits in San Francisco. The first lawsuit was filed by California, and the second by several environmental organizations – Environmental Defense, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Conservation Law Foundation, and the International Center for Technology Assessment.
The lawsuits challenge EPA’s denial of California’s request for a preemption waiver under the Clean Air Act to implement the state’s landmark standards for greenhouse gas emissions – requests that have been granted by EPA over 50 times in the past 40 years [PDF].
The EPA’s decision relies on a flawed argument that the federal courts already have rejected and are likely to reject again.
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
Are you thinking about climate-related New Year’s resolutions? In addition to this list of ideas from our Web site, here are some articles we’ve posted on green living that can give you some ideas.
Your Home:
Your Car:
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
As 2007 draws to a close, we also approach the end of our blog’s first year. Well, okay, it started in February, but it’s close. We’ve tried to bring you a blend of the science and policy of climate change, and be a resource for you in explaining these issues to others. How’ve we been doing? We want your feedback!
We also need your help in another quarter. The end of the year means fundraising for non-profits like ours. We rely on you to fund the important work we do.
Please donate now, and here’s wishing for a cool, green New Year for us all!
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
Sometimes it can seem like we’re not making any progress at all on the global warming front, but we are! Here are ten important policy victories from 2007.
