Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient. Employment in the East (basically Appalachia) fell before 2000, ticked up until 2012, and then resumed falling. But this could only have a contributing factor.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 28, 2023
For a healthy democracy made up of educated and active voters, it would help to better understand the connection between educational attainment and political engagement, and ways to overcome this contradiction.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet. The biggest barriers to progress are political and psychological.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
As I embraced my family, I felt a palpable fatigue from the pressures of the pandemic, political unrest, and geopolitical turmoil bubbling beneath the surface. Climate change in Sri Lanka is driving a hunger crisis, an economic crisis, and a political crisis.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 22, 2025
The energy sector and pipeline politics of the 21 st century are much different than they were decades ago. In 2012, more than a decade ago, two researchers from the National Wildlife Federation published a remarkable investigative report on the ever-present sunken hazard of Line 5.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2023
What has not been abundant is the political will to enact these reforms, and CARB’s reluctance to initiate a rulemaking reflects this trend. It won’t be easy to find a regulatory pathway that properly abates methane emissions, improves community health outcomes, and is politically palatable. To CARB, installing digesters is a win-win.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Between 2012 and 2017, four major companies — including Peabody energy, the world’s largest coal company, which produces 20 percent of the coal in Illinois — shed more than $5 billion owed for environmental cleanup, and health care for retired workers. . A Political Quagmire. Photo © Prairie Rivers Network.
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