President Obama's Clean Power Plan Is Nation's Strongest Climate Initiative
"The final rules propose a 32% cut in carbon emissions from power plants by 2030 on 2005 levels, up from the initial proposal of 30%," writes Adam VaughanPublication Date: Mon, 08/03/2015
View ArticleMapping the Location and Scale of U.S. Electricity Capacity
A set of large, illustrative graphics by John Muyskens, Dan Keating and Samuel Granados, follow the big news from earlier this week about the Obama Administration'Publication Date: Fri, 07/31/2015
View ArticleOp-Ed: Texas Should Lead, Not Litigate, on Clean Power
Chris Tomlinson writes an op-ed calling for the state government of Texas to support the Clean Power Plan recently Publication Date: Tue, 08/04/2015
View ArticleWould Bernie Sanders Delay the Obama Climate Initiative?
The Clean Power Plan is President Barack Obama's signature climate initiative, so when I heard Publication Date: Thu, 03/10/2016
View ArticleThe Carbon Neutral Controversy Surrounding Biomass
"The proposal not to count carbon from biomass is the work of Maine’s two senators — Publication Date: Tue, 10/04/2016
View ArticlePresident Obama's Clean Power Plan Is Nation's Strongest Climate Initiative
"The final rules propose a 32% cut in carbon emissions from power plants by 2030 on 2005 levels, up from the initial proposal of 30%," writes Adam VaughanPublication Date: Mon, 08/03/2015
View ArticleMapping the Location and Scale of U.S. Electricity Capacity
A set of large, illustrative graphics by John Muyskens, Dan Keating and Samuel Granados, follow the big news from earlier this week about the Obama Administration'Publication Date: Fri, 07/31/2015
View ArticleOp-Ed: Texas Should Lead, Not Litigate, on Clean Power
Chris Tomlinson writes an op-ed calling for the state government of Texas to support the Clean Power Plan recently Publication Date: Tue, 08/04/2015
View ArticleWould Bernie Sanders Delay the Obama Climate Initiative?
The Clean Power Plan is President Barack Obama's signature climate initiative, so when I heard Publication Date: Thu, 03/10/2016
View ArticleThe Carbon Neutral Controversy Surrounding Biomass
"The proposal not to count carbon from biomass is the work of Maine’s two senators — Publication Date: Tue, 10/04/2016
View ArticleReport: Carbon Rule Would Double Shutdowns of Coal Plants
Timothy Cama reports: "Shutdowns of coal-fired power plants would more than double under the Obama administration’s landmark climate rule, a federal analysis found."Publication Date: Fri, 05/22/2015
View ArticleRepublican Coalition Proposes a Carbon Tax to Fight Climate Change
"A group of Republican elder statesmen are calling for a tax on carbon emissions to fight climate change," reports John Schwartz.Publication Date: Tue, 02/07/2017
View ArticleTrump Targets Obama's Signature Environmental Rule, the Clean Power Plan
Unlike the Stream Protection Rule (which regulates the dumping of coal mining debris into bodies of water), which was Publication Date: Tue, 02/21/2017
View ArticleLegal Loophole Will Allow Rollback of Fuel Efficiency Standards
Last January, when Donald Trump was still president-elect, the U.S.Publication Date: Fri, 03/03/2017
View ArticleLet the Climate Resistance Begin
"In response to President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Publication Date: Mon, 06/05/2017
View ArticleTrump Administration to Repeal Obama's Clean Power Plan
Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis report that The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will publish a new power plant rule this week that will effectively end the Obama Administration's Clean Power...
View ArticleScott Pruitt and the 'Paradigm Shift' at Trump's EPA
At The Washington Post, Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin review the first year of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump and find profound change.Publication Date: Sun, 12/31/2017
View ArticlePollution Does Discriminate in Orlando’s Parramore Neighborhood
At the Huffington Post, Julia Craven has a deeply reported piece on air quality in one of Orlando’s poorest, most isolated neighborhoods.Publication Date: Tue, 01/23/2018
View ArticleCoal Power Plants to Retire Faster Under Trump
"More coal plants are now projected to retire more quickly than experts thought a year ago, according to energy-industry analysts who gathered in Chicago on May 8 at the American Wind Energy...
View Article'Affordable Clean Energy Rule' Proposed to Replace Clean Power Plan
There may be a new leader at the helm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but the goal of erasing the environmental legacy of President Obama continues without interruption.Publication Date:...
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