Climate, Water and Corporations: No Room for Business as Usual
Mostly hidden inside the climate issue, beneath the sometimes overwhelming din of deniers versus believers, major corporations are becoming believers. It does not mean they favor strict regulatory schemes; many still say innovation and the free market are adequate....
Actor Matt Damon on the Global Water Crisis
Awards serve a higher purpose when they turn our attention to crucial issues otherwise hidden from our daily lives. Because Matt Damon is this year's recipient of the World Economic Forum Crystal Award, his concise explanation of the global water crisis and the work...
New Jersey’s Political Crisis Is a Wake-Up Call for Climate Advocates
“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...
Natural Light: An EarthDesk Portfolio by Elena Shumilova
With great delight we welcome Russian photographer Elena Shumilova to EarthDesk Sunday. During the last few weeks, her pictures have become an Internet favorite. Elena's images touch the chords of wonder, love and comfort that can reverberate around the human place in...
Charleston, WV Spill Update: Freedom Industries Files for Banruptcy; Schools on Bottled Water; Senators Will Introduce Spill Bill.
Most Charleston region residents are back to a more routine life after the January 9 spill of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) into the Elk River by Freedom Industries closed their water supply for five days. (See EarthDesk January 14 and January 16). But the...
Hudson River Congressman Paul Tonko Calls for Charleston, WV Spill Hearing
In our previous EarthDesk post we examined the connection between the Charleston, WV spill into the Elk River, the failed Federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and our home river, the Hudson. On January 13, Representive Paul Tonko, the Hudson River Valley's...
The West Virginia Spill: What We Don’t Know and Why We Should Know It
For five days, 300,000 people of Charleston, West Virginia and the surrounding area lost their regular source of drinking water due to a spill of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol by Freedom Industries into the Elk River. Investigations into the cause are underway. Alarmed...
Sucking on Climate Denial by Pat Bagley
«« »» Patrick "Pat" Bagley is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah. His cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian of London, The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and the...
Senator James Inhofe on Climate, Unemployment and God (& Al Gore)
Even if you have followed closely the Washington debate over extension of unemployment insurance benefits, you may have missed the latest development in the U.S. Senate. From a news release by Senator James Inhoffe, R-OK: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member...
Governor Chris Christie: The Politics of Mean, of Name Calling, of Broken Promises
For Team Christie It Was Business as Usual to Call Fort Lee Mayor Sokolich "This Little Serbian," Sierra Club’s Ken Tittle a “Rabid Partisan," and Various Citizens "Idiots.” UPDATE - 9:30PM: Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has raised the possibility that the George Washington...
Official Climate Punditry for 2014, Guaranteed Accurate
By Peter Dykstra Daily Climate This post by EarthDesk friend and Daily Climate publisher Peter Dykstra appears in today's Daily Climate. More on Peter at the conclusion. After batting over .500 in his 2013 predictions, Peter takes a swing at 2014. One sure bet:...
A Very Fine Line by Andy Revkin
Note: Appropriately, our first musical guest ever on EarthDesk Sunday is Pace Academy's own Andy Revkin. The story follows the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgGT89_aEWA&list=PLnf4Z6Yq17hQbJ3TRznxR7BupssELDNTg In his 1972 book The Incompleat Folksinger,...