by Guest Contributor | Mar 1, 2014 | Climate Change, Energy, Government, Law & Policy
By Bobby Magill Climate Central EarthDesk welcomes Bobby Magill, a senior science writer for Climate Central who focuses on energy and climate change. This post appeared on Climate Central on February 27, 2014. More on Bobby at the conclusion. Explosion at the Con Ed...
by John Cronin | Jan 21, 2014 | Climate Change, Economics, Government, Law & Policy, Water
“Follow the money,” said Deep Throat in the film version of All the President’s Men, the docudrama about President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Good advice for anyone anticipating multi-billion dollar, public capital funding to protect coastal cities and towns...
by John Cronin | Oct 29, 2013 | Water
Today is the anniversary of the sinking of the Bounty. As with many tragedies left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the Bounty story instructs us that nature will ever challenge how we choose to live at, and beyond, the wet edges of our continents. She sank in...