by John Cronin | Aug 20, 2013 | Animal Welfare, Ecology, Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
Earlier this evening, I laid my tools on the cabin top of the boat on which I was working, and settled-in to watch the rust red moon crawl to the shoulders of the Hudson Highlands. Once there, it continued upward, as if loosed from the grip of gravity, and floated...
by John Cronin | Aug 16, 2013 | International, Law & Policy, Sustainability, Water
Michel Jarraud, director of UN-Water, believes transboundary water cooperation is an avenue to international peace. It is a bold vision given how popular is the opposing view. Consider the apocalyptic headlines: Clark Judge’s US News and World Report column, The...
by John Cronin | Jul 25, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Energy, Pollution, Water
A blowout and fire that began Tuesday at 8:45 AM at a gas well in the Gulf of Mexico, 55 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 154 feet of water, has been contained, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), an arm of the US Department of...
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 John Cronin | Jul 1, 2013 | Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
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,...