by John Cronin | Jul 24, 2013 | Climate Change, Energy, Pollution, Sustainability, Technology
Over at Dot Earth, my colleague Andrew Revkin has been carefully walking his readers through the nuclear power briar patch ever growing inside the American environmental movement. Looming large is Dr. James Hansen, former NASA climate scientist who used his...
by John Cronin | Jul 19, 2013 | Climate Change, Corporate Responsibility, Energy, Law & Policy, Sustainability, Technology, Water
But it will not be averted by defining water as just another component of energy production. No matter where you live in the U.S. – desert or coast, city or farm – there is a better than 95% chance your electricity comes from water. How so, you might ask, if...
by EarthDesk | Jul 3, 2013 | Law & Policy, Pollution, Sustainability, Technology, Water
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...
by John Cronin | Jun 26, 2013 | Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Fracking, Law & Policy, Pollution, Technology
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...
by EarthDesk | Jun 20, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Economics, Science, Sustainability, Technology
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...
by John Cronin | Jun 14, 2013 | Economics, General, Law & Policy, Pollution, Technology, Water
There is little disagreement about the dire condition of our aging water infrastructure. And there is just as little being done about it. “The current rate of replacement for aging collection and distribution systems nationwide is less than 1 percent for most...