United States

The assumption of inconvenience 0
Posted 1 month ago Early this week, I noticed a number of my favorite bloggers linking to a Elisabeth Rosenthal essay at Environment 360, on the mysterious greenness of European nations. The average American, as it happens, produces about twice as much carbon dioxide each year as your typical resident of Western Europe.
Show Me the Money!

U.N. climate chief: $300B needed each year in global climate fight 3
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The global community should be investing $300 billion annually to combat global warming, according to U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer.
Headwind - get it?

Even with economic headwind, U.S. still adds 4,000 MW of new wind — and a dozen new factories 2
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
We need a stronger renewable electricity standard to remain competitive with China, which has tripled its wind goal to 100,000 MW by 2020.
Dispatch from the Major Economies Forum

What will the U.S. and other major economies commit to? 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
I am outside of Mexico City with delegates from the world's 17 biggest economies who are meeting this week ahead of the next G8 meeting to further negotiate international climate agreements. Issues on the table include funding for forest protection, mid-term and long-term emission reduction targets, and financing for adaption and mitigation. The outcomes from these talks remain in doubt and other questions fester, like to what will the U.S. commit to?
White House Releases Landmark Climate Change Report 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate ... it's everywhere

What the U.S. climate report says about your state 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Here's a rundown of what the Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States report says will happen in other regions of this great (for now!) American land.
Climate change in living color 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
U.S. responsible for 29 percent of CO2 emissions over past 150 years, triple China’s share 0
Posted 5 months ago
Since the mid-1800s, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide accounted for 29 percent of the global total. Those 328,000 million metric tons of cumulative emissions are the most of any country and more than three times the amount emitted by China over the same period, according to data from the World Resources Institute.
Letter from Europe

Treating climate change as a security threat 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
One of the more surprising trends of the last few years is the greening of the military, with Britain and the United States in the vanguard of what we may one day come to call the "military-ecological complex.
How the U.S. and China can help, not harm, each other 19
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
Start Up, Shut Down, Fight, Fight, Fight

Appeals court ruling closes Clean Air Act loophole 1
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Soot to Kill

Air in 46 U.S. metro areas exceeds allowable soot levels 1
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
We’ll Guess a Hazard

EPA declares waste from oil-shale production ‘non-hazardous’ 2
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Give Me Your Knobby Tired

Rule change would allow more mountain biking in national parks 11
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Drive to Survive?

U.S. auto bailout bill dies in Congress 2
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
And We're Left Picking Up the Species

Bush admin removes independent scientific reviews from Endangered Species Act 3
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Coming Out Enforce

EPA unveils ‘most wanted’ list of environmental criminals 2
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
A Potential Suit, Or ...

Auto bailout passed by House requires compliance with state emission standards 0
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Destroying the Plan-It, But Sparing the Air

EPA drops significant planned changes to two air-pollution rules 0
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Emissionary Deal

Utility strikes deal with green groups allowing new coal plants to proceed 6
Posted 10 months, 4 weeks ago