by Antonia Gentile | Feb 7, 2018 | Advocacy, Government, Law & Policy, Pace Students, Water
Students of the Pace University Environmental Policy Clinic conducted an investigation of the U.S. Coast Guard proposal to anchor oil barges on the Hudson. Six months later, the agency withdrew its proposal and began the proper studies the Clinic called for.
by John Cronin | Nov 5, 2017 | Climate Change, Government, Law & Policy, Science
A 477-page Climate Science Special Report by 14 federal agencies repudiates the Trump administration climate position and finds that human activities are the only credible explanation for warming of the planet and extreme weather events.
by John Cronin | Sep 17, 2013 | Animal Welfare, Health
On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially confirmed what health advocates, independent scientists and common sense nutritionists have maintained, and CDC had alluded to, for years: uncontrolled use of antibiotics in food animals is...
by John Cronin | Sep 13, 2013 | General, Science
If our environment is the space we occupy, it is now interstellar. NASA reports: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion km) from our...
by John Cronin | Aug 28, 2013 | General
Editor’s Note: Today is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the “I Have a Dream” speech Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered to the 250,000 gathered before him on Washington’s National Mall. In Fall 2000, the...