Fifth IPCC Report Sets a Global Carbon Budget
By Karl Coplan Karl Coplan is a professor of law at Pace Law School and co-director of its Environmental Litigation Clinic. This post also appears on GreenLaw, the blog of the Pace Environmental Law Program. More on Karl at the conclusion of this post. The Fifth...
Abandoned, Polluting, and Costly: Are the Gas Wells of New York’s Past a Glimpse into Its Future?
By Tom Wilber Editor’s Note: Tom Wilber regularly contributes posts about shale gas and fracking to EarthDesk. This post also appears on his excellent blog Shale Gas Review. More on Tom follows. — John Cronin The debate over natural gas development in New...
It’s Not Called the Cleaner Water Act
America’s waterbodies are imperiled as never before. The words are not mine. That is how former EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson described the state of the nation’s waters in a January 12, 2010 memo to EPA staff. Today, our waters are still “imperiled as never...
Sustainable Snapshot: Yankees Station
More than 5,000 fans will travel to Yankee Stadium by Metro North Train on a well-attended game day. Opened during the 2009 baseball season, the Yankees-E. 153rd Street Station has so reduced car traffic to the Yankees Heritage Field complex in the Bronx that the...
Live Stock by Hajo de Reijger
Hajo de Reijger is a prolific political cartoonist and freelance illustrator whose themes include animal welfare and the environment. He works for the Dutch newspapers NRC Handelsblad, NRC Next and de Pers, and lives with his wife and three children in Amsterdam. You...
Revkin’s Roundup: Frack Leaks, Coal Jewlery, Arctic Water, Pork-Beef
From the fracking fields of Texas to the bizarre butcheries of mainland China, here are Andy’s highlights for the week behind and the week ahead. The Week Behind: A Closer Look at Fracking Emissions This week began with the publication in the Proceedings of the...
The Obama Climate Battle is Joined, but Does the President Have the Clout?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to issue carbon standards in the next few days that will regulate air emissions at new power plants, the first salvo in the climate offensive President Obama promised to launch from the Oval Office. Earlier...
Antibiotics & Human Disease: The CAFO Connection
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...
Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.
Preparing oyster shells for tagging at the Billion Oyster Project, Governor's Island.
With New York State Senator Terrence Murphy (center) in Albany to discuss state policy regarding mistreatment of elephants in circuses.
Investigating turtle mortality on a Putnam County highway in Cold Spring, NY with county legislator Barbara Scuccimarra (L.).
Learning the fundamentals of aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.
Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses, Hanneford Circus, White Plains, NY.
Crafting oyster regulation policy with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper, Pace, NYC. (L.).
Ready to dig into wood chip pile to feed campus composter, Pace, Pleasantville.
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