by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2013 | Agenda 21
The World Bank’s chief told Bloomberg in an interview published Thursday that he hopes to elevate the international development institution’s climate change role. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who took office in July, said the lender’s November climate change...
by Jane Richey | Dec 20, 2012 | Agenda 21
President Obama has identified climate change as one of his top three priorities in his second term after coming under fire from environmentalists for giving the issue short shrift during the campaign. The president, in an interview for TIME’s Person of the Year...
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Two days ago, the 18th United Nations conference on climate change wrapped up. As they did at the previous 17 conferences, developing nations demanded that the United States and other developed countries pay them for the climate’s effects. In short, the joke’s on us....
by Jane Richey | Nov 20, 2012 | Agenda 21
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has shuttered its Center on Climate Change and National Security, an office created in 2009 to serve as the “focal point” of the agency’s work on the topic. CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz said the agency’s work on climate change has...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Agenda 21, Politics
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, operates 9,516 vehicles even though it only has 11,605 employees. That works out to one vehicle for every 1.2 employees. The service promotes itself, in part, as a component of...
