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Dirty tax break, dirtier fuel
The U.S.’s operable refinery capacity — that is, the amount of crude oil that can be processed and sold to consumers as liquid fuel — is a whopping 18 million barrels per day. The Un…
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The federal coal program must end or seriously reform
Earlier this year, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for “an honest and open conversation about modernizing the federal government’s coal program.” Today I am speaking at the Washing…
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New paper warns 2 degree limit isn’t enough to stop major sea level rise
In a recently released paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion, former NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen and 16 other researchers detail a climate change future more alarming…
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Green Climate Fund faces worrisome developments with big banks, bad process
Developing countries urgently need money — and lots of it — to address climate change. To tackle this tremendous challenge, the international community is looking to the newly established…
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Green Climate Fund: Course correction needed?
Originally posted on Reuters The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is meant to be a new, innovative institution that will directly support climate action in developing countries, with a particular focus on the…
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Getting climate finance right
Successful examples for the Green Climate Fund from around the world UN climate watchers are eager to see what projects and programs the Green Climate Fund finances out of the starting gate. The impli…
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Court upholds ban on contractor pay-to-play donations
Earlier this week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected a challenge to the 1974 ban on campaign contributions by federal contractors. Ruling on Wagner v. FEC, the 11-member court col…
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Cruise industry eyes Cuba
The Obama administration’s plans to normalize relations with Cuba and the introduction of legislation to relax travel restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba have launched a tourism frenzy — and the…
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When Wilmar finishes, we have no future left: New report on Nigerian palm oil land grabs
The oil palm tree is native to West Africa and palm oil, in its rawest form, is a staple of the West African diet. So, while it is new to Western consumers as an ingredient in roughly half of our pack…
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Truth or deception? New report exposes how industry front groups are spending millions to shape the story of food
Organic and non-GMO food sales are skyrocketing as more and more people are choosing healthier, more sustainable food produced without synthetic pesticides, GMOs or the routine use of antibiotics and…