President Obama Should Come Clean About the Clean Water Act
During 45 seconds of a 22-minute, June 25 speech about the environment before the League of Conservation Voters, President Obama spoke in surprisingly unsophisticated language regarding his water agenda: I’m going to stand with sportsmen and conservationists against...
The 31st Anniversary of the Clean Water Act’s Failure to Achieve Its First Policy Goal
The quality of American waterways continues to worsen. According to the most recent data released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: States have issued 223 new fish advisories, bringing the total advisories recognized by EPA to 4,821. Approximately 17.7...
The Water Carriers of Central Malawi and the Trócaire Campaign
The video clip above, of villagers in Central Malawi gathering the day’s water, is part of an extraordinary interactive story published recently on the Irish Times site by Trócaire, a Catholic charity in Kildare, Ireland that works in over 20 countries across...
Water, Water Everywhere, but Prices May Vary. $3.3M/Gallon on the Moon; $25/Lifetime on Earth
Long after gold created a Rush in California and oil created a Boom in Texas, the ever surprising, ubiquitous, and commonplace water continues to capture our imagination like no other substance. And for good reason. We cannot live without it. In all its states...
The Sochi Olympics: The Media Discover There’s Bad Water on the Planet
The image on the left of bad hotel water, tweeted from the Sochi Olympics by Stacy St. Clair of the Chicago Tribune, has been retweeted 3,822 times and favorited 1,395 times, as of this writing. It was reposted in countless blogs and Facebook pages, and reprinted in...
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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