by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2013 | Agenda 21
President Obama is launching fresh battles over climate change with plans to curb emissions using executive powers that sidestep Congress — including controversial rules to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants. The wide-ranging plan, which Obama will tout...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2013 | Agenda 21
With President Barack Obama’s progressive base in an uproar over the National Security Agency (NSA) domestic surveillance programs, Obama seeks to quell angst among his environmental base on Tuesday by declaring war on coal. “A war on coal is exactly what’s needed,”...
by Jane Richey | Jun 24, 2013 | Agenda 21
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said President Obama’s upcoming plan to impose new greenhouse gas regulations could create traction for carbon tax proposals that currently lack political support in Congress. “There is no chance right now, but that chance can change...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Agenda 21
The World Bank is beginning to commit billions of dollars to flood prevention, water management and other projects to help major Asian cities avoid the expected impact of climate change, a dramatic example of how short the horizon has become to alleviate the effects...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Agenda 21
President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd in Berlin Wednesday that nations must unite to fight the “grim” future of climate change, which will produce “severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees — coastlines will vanish, oceans will rise.”...
