Keith Schneider 
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Keith Schneider, a former national correspondent and a contributor to the New York Times, began his environmental reporting career in 1979 when he covered the hazards of radioactive releases from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsyvlania. He is the media and communications director for the U.S. Climate Action Network, and contributes to Yale Environment 360 and Circle of Blue, where he also serves as senior editor and producer.
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Barcelona outcome: White House strategy is plea for more time 7
Posted 2 weeks agoThe Barcelona climate talks wrapped up on Friday with the U.S. making a bid for additional time to get a climate plan in place.Africa returns to Barcelona talks, while U.S. resists giving up the numbers 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days agoClimate negotiators are terribly frustrated with the United States for not taking two momentous steps -- defining the quantity of carbon it is ready to remove from the atmosphere, and putting on the table a definite dollar amount to help developing nations make the transition to cleaner and economically greener economies.Jenifa, Oh Jenny
An interview with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm 0
Posted 5 years ago
Jennifer Granholm.
If John Kerry becomes president, he'll owe an awful lot to Jennifer M. Granholm, Michigan's environmentally minded first-term Democratic governor. For all but a few shaky days in early September when some polls indicated that Michigan may have been leaning President Bush's way, the state and its 17 critical electoral votes have stayed all year as alpine blue as a northern Lake Michigan bay. Granholm has actively accompanied the senator on swings through Michigan, and her husband, Daniel Mulhern, is co-chair of the Kerry-Edwards state campaign.
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What's Good for the Michigander Is Good for the Goose
Lessons from the Great Lakes on how enviros can win votes and influence people 0
Posted 6 years, 1 month ago
Bush chats up Michiganders in Monroe.
Photo: White House.
President Bush swooped into Monroe, Mich., in mid-September for an appearance at one of the largest and most polluting coal-fired power plants in the world. As an exploration of his ideas about environmental policy, the visit was completely baffling. (Why go to such a filthy facility? Why sing the praises of a piece of legislation -- the Clean Air Act -- that his administration has made every effort to weaken?) But as a campaign stop, the Monroe visit made perfect sense.
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Green groups work together to counter the Bush attack on the environment 0
Posted 6 years, 10 months agoIt's been nine weeks since voters turned the national government over to Republican lawmakers, many of whom explicitly vowed to help President Bush and his industrial allies complete what former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) failed to do in 1995: dismantle the nation's basic protections for water, air, wild lands, forests, and public health.
An uphill battleground.
Since the first hours after the election, senior staff members from the most prominent U.S. green groups have been preparing an action plan to foil the Republican assault on the environment -- and today,… Read More