Climate Change Deniers Back in the Headlines
By Annie Downs On January 27, the Wall Street Journal published an open letter from sixteen scientists telling us to just chill out about global warming. They warn readers that “a large and growing...
View ArticleManaging for the Unknowns: Adaptive Resource Management
By Addie Haughey Adaptive resource management is an iterative approach to environmental decision-making that adjusts as outcomes from management are better understood over time. More simply, adaptive...
View ArticleShifting Climate Change to the Present
By Priyanka Sunder From a whimper to a bang, climate change is back on the agenda. President Obama must play the jobs card if he wants to win this time around. After four years on the legislative...
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Building on Success: Climate Change Mitigation in Obama’s Second Term
By David Thomsen “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations… The path towards sustainable energy sources will...
View ArticleCold as Ice: Why It Matters That the Canadian Government is Backing Out of UN...
by Jacob Patterson-Stein At the end of March, while answering questions in the House of Commons, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calmly explained why he was stopping payments to an organization...
View ArticleDomestic Policy in 2014
The year 2013 certainly provided no shortage of fodder for policy wonks. We faced off over the debt limit and government shutdown, scraped together a budget deal, alternatively debated and ignored...
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Newsmaker Interview: EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
Source: EPA Gina McCarthy is the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has been a leading advocate for common-sense strategies to protect public health and the environment....
View ArticleGrading the 2015 State of the Union
In his sixth State of the Union Address, President Obama put forth a vision for America evoking a tone reminiscent of his 2008 campaign. With almost all economic indicators at pre-recession levels and...
View ArticleCan planting trees help us avoid climate disaster?
Every country on Earth has now signed on to the Paris international climate agreement and pledged to dramatically reduce their carbon emissions. Fulfilling this ambition will require international...
View ArticleGreen houses and greenhouse gases: Why exclusionary zoning is a climate...
Exclusionary zoning, a practice historically used to racially segregate communities, plagues issues across the political landscape, from climate change to education. This article is the last in a...
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