Water Infrastructure and the White House
An Update from Alexandra Dapolito Dunn On June 14, we reported on the financial crisis faced by communities in need of water infrastructure repair and replacement. On July 1, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) convened a Conference on Financing the...
Don’t Fish, Do Fish: The 30th Anniversary of the Failure of Fishable, Swimmable Waters.
Today is an inauspicious occasion in American environmental history -- the thirtieth anniversary of the Federal Clean Water Act’s failure to meet its July 1, 1983 policy goal of "water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and...
I’m with Stupid by TAB
TAB, or Thomas Boldt, is a Canadian political cartoonist known for his excellent work for the Calgary Sun, and Sun Media Newspapers. In 2008, he was caught in the great wave of newspaper downsizing that continues still, decimating the ranks of cartoonists, artists and...
The 007 Water Campaign: Talkin’ the Talk & Walkin’ the Walk
How to communicate the importance of an everyday thing like water? That was the puzzle Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies faced when planning its 007 Campaign to dramatize the national and global water crisis. We organized the Walk for World Water, where...
The Ecology of Justice and the Death of the Defense of Marriage Act
On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, its founder, Senator Gaylord Nelson, spoke in Denver, Colorado: Earth Day can -- and it must -- lend a new urgency and a new support to solving the problems that still threaten to tear the fabric of this society . . . the...
President Obama and Climate Change 2013
President Obama's climate change speech at Georgetown University is being widely characterized as historic. And that is certainly so, looking backward from the moment the address was delivered. But will its historic quality stand the test of time? There is likely a...
Is President Obama Serious About Climate Change This Time?
The White House is promising a major climate address by President Obama at Georgetown University today. The details of the plan, embargoed until 6 AM this morning, are already making their impact felt. Coal shares are falling. Fox News is carping. But are these signs...
Gezi Park Update: Water Cannons Blast Protesters with Pepper Gas Chemical
Turkish Police are adding the chemical weapon Jenix pepper gas to water cannons used against protesters demonstrating to save Taksim Gezi Park, according to Turkey's Hürriyet Daily News. The addition of a gas to the water cannons during the weekend’s police crackdown...
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Survival of the Fittest
By Neil S. Braun Neil S. Braun is dean of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University where he also serves on the Operating Committee of the university. An attorney, Dean Braun has had an extensive career in business and the entertainment industry. In 2010, he...
Water, Health and Human Behavior: In Kenya, A Troubling Mix
Over at National Public Radio's Planet Money blog, a provocative debate about water has broken out amongst commenters. In a post today, David Kestenbaum posits that people in rural Kenya who do not take advantage of readily available chlorine to decontaminate their...
The Simple (And Frightening) Climate Math That Not Even Bill McKibben Seems Willing To Do
By Karl Coplan Karl Coplan is a professor of law at Pace Law School and co-director of its Environmental Litigation Clinic. Karl regularly cycles and paddles between his home on the west side of the Hudson River and his law school office in White Plains, east of the...