Filed under: Environment, Energy
If you want to see glaciers in Glacier National Park, you had better hurry. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that within 20 years, the park will be empty of glaciers. As temperatures rise and politicians debate how to respond to climate change, the national parks already seem to...Green Groups Try to Assuage Dems’ Worries Over Cap-and-Trade Fallout
Filed under: Democrats, Environment, Polls
Environmental groups are scrambling to convince Democratic lawmakers that a vote on cap-and-trade this year would not harm them politically. Attempting to suppress Democrats' doubts about pushing for another controversial vote now that the health care debate has proved long and bloody, groups that support...Obama Urges Climate Action at U.N., Avoids Specifics for U.S.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Environment, Video
Speaking at his United Nations debut in New York on Monday, President Obama urged world leaders act swiftly on climate change. "After too many years of inaction and denial, there is finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us. We know...Barbara Boxer: Cap and Trade Bill ‘Like Giving Birth Again’
Filed under: Senate, Democrats, Republicans, Environment, The Capitolist
The process began nine months ago and there have been severe labor pains along the way, so when Sen. Barbara Boxer compared introducing climate change legislation to giving birth Wednesday, she wasn't too far off.
After seeing the House...
EPA Moves Forward With New Emissions Rules
Filed under: Environment, Congress
Just as climate-change legislation began a slow trek through the Senate this week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was moving forward on new restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions at power plants and industrial facilities, the New York Times reports. The new rules, which could go...Five Things We Learned at the European Summit
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Woman Up, International
A few weeks back, I posted about some incipient trouble brewing within the EU. Late last week, European leaders met for a two-day summit to push forward on a number of those procedural...Senate Democrats Force Climate Bill Through Committee Despite Republican Boycott
Filed under: Senate, Democrats, Environment
Democratic senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee dismissed a Republican boycott of the panel's markup session and passed a climate change bill 11-1, with only Sen. Max Baucus of Montana opposing. When Republicans refused to attend markup...Obama Urged to Attend Climate Summit With Bipartisan Senate Plan in Hand
An environmentalist and a retired vice admiral made the case Thursday that President Obama should personally attend the Copenhagen climate-change summit next month and bring with him two substantial signs that America is serious about curbing global warming: the sweeping cap-and-trade bill already passed by the House, and a bipartisan framework for getting a climate...
How Hard Is Obama Trying on Global Warming?
Filed under: Barack Obama, Environment, Deep Background
President Barack Obama is lucky that the health care reform endeavor is overwhelming the political system and causing concern among his liberal base, for it's distracting from a key matter where he has fallen short: climate change.While on his current...
Report: Women Will Suffer Brunt of Climate Change
Filed under: Environment, Energy, Woman Up, International
As global climate change intensifies, the negative effects will fall more and more disproportionately onto women, according to State of World Population 2009, a report released by the United Nations' Population Fund last...Top Climate Scientist Says Copenhagen Meeting Could Be a ‘Disaster’
Filed under: Environment
James Hansen, a leading climate scientist who was influential in convincing the world to take notice of global warming, says this month's climate summit in Copenhagen is on "a disaster track," The Guardian reports. Despite believing climate change is a serious danger, Hansen said that it will be...