Climate

Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the 2013 figures for its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, now in its fourth year. These figures show which states, as well as which industry sectors and which individual businesses, produce the most climate change-inducing greenhouse gas emissions. The undisputed winner—or loser, if you prefer—is Texas, with its […]

On Saturday more than 20,000 people took to the streets in more than 30 countries across the globe to celebrate the Arctic and demand protection for this unique region of the world. “Ice Ride,” a global day of action to save the Arctic, is a call for the creation of a protected sanctuary around the North Pole to save marine […]

A Discourse of Character not Consequence Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rock-star love-fest with the American Indian diaspora at Madison Square Garden last week was hardly a policy address—Modi’s theme was India’s potential greatness and his vision of how to enable it, not a ten-part to-do list for his new government. But his summation of the […]

Following in the footsteps of Google, Facebook confirmed yesterday that it too would likely drop its membership in the controversial corporate lobbying group the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), as environmentalists have long been pressuring. The group writes “model” legislation supporting the fossil fuel industry and opposing clean energy. Facebook says it’s unlikely it will […]

Last week, Standard & Poor dropped huge multinational coal company Peabody Energy from its S&P 500 Index. Last spring, SNL Energy News said that, “The total market value of publicly traded U.S. coal companies has rebounded slightly in recent months, but remains nearly 63 percent lower than a total of the same companies at a near-term coal market peak […]

Shortly after the New York Stock Exchange 4 p.m. closing bell and hours after the protest began, New York City police arrested 102 people who were part of the Flood Wall Street protest yesterday, including several individuals in wheelchairs and one dressed as a polar bear. Peter Galvin, co-founder of Center for Biological Diversity, dressed in […]

The slogan of the 300,000+ People’s Climate March that rolled over Manhattan like a tsunami yesterday, “To change everything we need everyone” was embodied not only in the raw numbers—larger than the 1963 March for Jobs and Justice led by Martin Luther King—but also in the incredible diversity of the crowd and the organizations participating, and the careful structuring […]

At a press conference today in New York City on the heels of yesterday’s massive People’s Climate March, the international Invest-Divest coalition announced commitments for more than $50 billion in assets that will be divested from fossil fuels and moved into clean energy to address climate change. They include scores of foundations, faith groups, health […]