by Keith Schneider
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A scientific hack job that won’t cripple climate talks 0
Posted 2 days, 7 hours ago Once again, the opponents of climate action are relying on spurious, deceptive, dishonest, and possibly illegal practices to disrupt the world’s steady march to achieving a solution to a warming planet. Read More -
Barcelona outcome: White House strategy is plea for more time 7
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago The Barcelona climate talks wrapped up on Friday with the U.S. making a bid for additional time to get a climate plan in place. Read More -
Africa returns to Barcelona talks, while U.S. resists giving up the numbers 0
Posted 3 weeks ago Climate 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. Read More -
Jenifa, Oh Jenny
An interview with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm 0
Posted 5 years, 1 month 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.
Apart from the war… Read More
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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.
Michigan… Read More
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Homeland Defense
Green groups work together to counter the Bush attack on the environment 0
Posted 6 years, 10 months ago It'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
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Hitting the Bottle
Michigan residents fight for control of the state’s water 0
Posted 7 years, 1 month ago Until two years ago, the 40,550 generally well-behaved Midwesterners of Mecosta County, Mich., regularly attended church, sent their children off to school on yellow buses, and never for a moment worried that their clean, freshwater supply would ever run dry. Mecosta County, after all, sits near the center of Michigan's lower peninsula, which itself sits at the center of the largest supply of freshwater on Earth.
A Mecosta County battleground.
Photo: Jeff Sapp, MCWC.
Then came the water war.
On Dec. 6, 2000, the Perrier Group of America, a subsidiary of… Read More
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Labor's Love Lost
The blue-green relationship hits the skids 0
Posted 7 years, 6 months ago The Washington, D.C., headquarters of the AFL-CIO, which represents 13 million workers in the United States, is on 16th Street just a couple of blocks north of the White House. On the morning of Sept. 11, some of the U.S. environmental movement's most influential leaders -- John Adams and Robert Kennedy, Jr., of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Carl Pope and Dan Becker of the Sierra Club, and John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff during the Clinton administration -- were assembled in the federation's executive conference room awaiting the arrival of its president, John Sweeney. Their purpose:… Read More -
Land of the Oil-free?
Redefining the “American way of life"Nonsense and Sensibility 0
Posted 8 years ago It takes only the first raw scent of the smoldering piles of debris at Ground Zero and a quick glance at the guts of the blasted, black-charred remains of the World Trade Center to immediately agree with President Bush that the Sept. 11 attacks were a direct strike at what he called "the American way of life."
America, the solar-powered?
Bush's assessment, meant to stir public passion and lay the political foundation for a sustained military campaign to eradicate global terrorism, has also had another, quite different effect. Spurred by the president's… Read More
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Diamond in the Rubble
The political reshuffling in the U.S. could help the environment 0
Posted 8 years, 1 month ago It is impossible to conceive of human acts as wholly devoid of humanity as last month's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The nation is reeling, emotionally stranded by confusion, shared suffering, and a stunningly new sense of danger.But if something good has come out of this paroxysm of grief and alarm it is this: Americans are reconsidering what's really relevant and what is less so in our national life. Professional sports stadiums, for instance, were empty for a week. Vapid advertising disappeared from television news programs. The Emmy Awards were cancelled. In this unusual moment of national… Read More
