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International Climate Implications of Supreme Court Ruling on Clean Power Plan

February 12, 2016 Expert BlogJake Schmidt

What the Supreme Court's Power Plant Order Means for Climate Action

February 12, 2016 Expert BlogSusan Casey-Lefkowitz

Something Rotten in the State of Denmark

February 11, 2016 Latest NewsInternationalBrian Palmer

Meet Bjorn Lomborg, the always-sunny political scientist that climate deniers love.

SoCal Gas Temporarily Stops Natural Gas Leak from Aliso Canyon Well

February 11, 2016 Press ReleaseCalifornia

PORTER RANCH, CALIF. (February 11, 2016) – Southern California Gas today announced it has temporarily stopped the leak that has been spewing natural gas into Porter Ranch and surrounding communities since October.

Go Easy on the Salt

February 11, 2016 ExplainerFlint, Michigan, United StatesBrian Palmer

But it’s still worth asking why Flint River water is so corrosive in the first place. What made the water so efficient at stripping lead from service pipes?

Stormwater Credit Trading Programs

February 10, 2016 Issue BriefUnited StatesBecky Hammer

In Texas, Oil and Gas Companies Get Away with Ignoring the Rules that Protect Drinking Water

February 10, 2016 Expert BlogTexasAmy Mall

Advanced Electric Water Heaters Could Save Money and Cut Pollution

February 10, 2016 Expert BlogRobin Roy

Obama Budget Sets Priorities to Continue Progress

February 9, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 9, 2016) – President Obama today submitted a budget proposal that would double funding for clean energy research, create a $1.65 billion fund for infrastructure projects to lessen the impacts wrought by climate change, impose a $10-per-barrel tax…

Clean Power Plan Will Prevail on Legal Merits

February 9, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON (February 9, 2016) -- The Supreme Court today blocked implementation of President Obama's Clean Power Plan, pending litigation in the lower courts over a challenge by the coal industry.

Bacigalupi's The Water Knife Cuts to the Core on Climate Change

February 9, 2016 Expert BlogJoel Scata

Drinking In the Heavy Metal

February 8, 2016 DispatchFlint, MichiganSusan Cosier

Thanks to the Flint water crisis, the city’s kids could experience terrible, long-lasting consequences from lead exposure.

A Red Flag for Red Colobus

February 8, 2016 Latest NewsAfricaJason Bittel

Hunted by humans and chimps and besieged by civil war and deforestation, Africa’s red colobus monkeys have few reasons to celebrate.

New York's First Emissions Regulations for Distributed Generation Will Slash Diesel Pollution

February 8, 2016 Expert BlogMiles Farmer, Jackson Morris

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is soliciting comments on its newly proposed emissions regulations for distributed generators. The regulations (which have been wallowing in administrative purgatory for more than a decade, but are finally moving forward…

STUDY: Oil Industry Triggers California Earthquakes

February 6, 2016 Expert BlogGiulia C.S. Good Stefani