By Steve Mertl28 March 2013 (Daily Brew) – Whether you like it or not, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government is reshaping Canada’s relationship with the rest of the world. From last year’s withdrawal from the admittedly ineffectual Kyoto Protocol on climate change — which as CBC News noted will save the government $14 billion […]
By FELICITY BARRINGER26 March 2013 CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO (The New York Times) – Just after the local water board announced this month that its farmers would get only one-tenth of their normal water allotment this year, Ronnie Walterscheid, 53, stood up and called on his elected representatives to declare a water war on their upstream […]
By Matt Canham19 March 2013 WASHINGTON (The Salt Lake Tribune) – Count Utah Rep. Chris Stewart among the skeptics of climate change science and President Barack Obama’s attempts to use federal regulations to curb carbon emissions. That position puts freshman House member Stewart well within the mainstream of Republican politics, but his views now hold […]
By ROSS RAMSEY23 March 2013 (The New York Times) – In big Texas cities, the state’s water shortage can seem like someone else’s problem. Drought has been in the news a long time, but rates haven’t gone up. Water still comes out when you turn on the tap. The golf courses are still green, and […]
By Doug Short22 March 2013 (Advisor Perspectives) – The Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Commission has released the latest report on Traffic Volume Trends, data through January. Travel on all roads and streets changed by 0.5% (1.2 billion vehicle miles) for January 2013 as compared with January 2012. The 12-month moving average of miles driven […]
By John H. Cushman Jr.25 March 2013 WASHINGTON (InsideClimate News) – When the State Department hired a contractor to produce the latest environmental impact statement for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, it asked for a Web-based electronic docket to record public comments as they flowed in each day. Thousands of comments are expected to be […]
By Jacqueline L. Urgo24 March 2013 MANTOLOKING, New Jersey (Philadelphia Inquirer) – Buddy Young and his crew wait pensively on a dock, two-way radios in hand, for a “picker” boat a half-mile out on Barnegat Bay to report on precisely what the long-arm boom mounted to the front of the vessel managed to pull from […]
By Michael Marshall 22 March 2013 The lawyers will be as busy as bees. The long-running row over insecticides linked to declines in bee numbers is going to court. Beekeepers and activists are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying it should have banned neonicotinoid insecticides. Neonicotinoids are relatively new chemicals but have already […]
By Suzy Khimm22 March 2013 (Washington Post) – Both Democrats and Republican leaders celebrated the passage of a short-term budget that averted a government shutdown while blunting some of the worst effects of sequestration. “I am so proud the Senate bill protects national security while meeting compelling human needs. It makes investments in human infrastructure […]
By Bill McKibben 17 March 2013 (Bloomberg) – If you go to the website of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Missouri, you can read more than 1,000 letters from retired coal miners and their widows. Their words are like the lyrics to an endless Johnny Cash ballad, and even more heartbreaking. […]
