The Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act is an opportunity for Congress to make America a healthier nation—even as our climate gets hotter, wilder, and more dangerous.
Shifts in environment can and will impact the military mission of the United States in a variety of ways, leading the Pentagon to label climate change a ‘threat multiplier’ and Secretary of Defense James Mattis to call it a ‘driver…
WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House is expected to pass a FY 2018 omnibus spending bill seeking deep cuts to the budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior and other agencies. The bill also contains scores of policy…
In the era of climate change, the “business-as-usual” approach for addressing flooding is no longer an option. Current federal policies create an unsustainable “flood, rebuild, repeat” situation for managing the nation’s flood risks.
California’s legislature made significant clean energy progress in 2017, but one box will remain unchecked as it moves to September recess—enhancement and integration of the Western electric grid. By not authorizing changes in how the grid is managed, this session…
While the logging industry seeks to blame woodland caribou reocovery plans and other environmental protections for layoffs and wage reductions, government data show these are the result of the industry's investments in automation and mechanization, allowing them to maintain their…
However, the resolution that has been put forward could open the watershed to the dangers of fracking wastewater contamination and the withdrawal of freshwater for fracking elsewhere. This would be a dangerous mistake.
