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...
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...
Water Protection Shortchanged by Interior’s Proposed Fracking Rules
By Monika Freyman EarthDesk welcomes guest blogger Monika Freyman who analyzes for us the adequacy of the fracking standards recently proposed by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. Monika is a water program manager at Ceres, and...
Where You Stand Depends On Where You Frack
The Department of Interior’s latest proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands could set a precedent for how fracking is regulated on private lands nationally and by individual states. Judging from online reactions, the agency may well believe...
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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