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Infographic: The high cost of hurricanes
Over the last ten years, damage from hurricanes has resulted in the loss of 2,334 lives and more than $310 billion in damages. UNC@MPA, the online component of the Master of Public Administration prog…
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Despite worse-than-coal emissions, Obama administration finds yet another natural gas export facility environmentally insignificant
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s draft environmental impact statement on the Jordan Cove Energy Project’s proposed liquefied natural gas export plant in Coos Bay, Or…
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The midterms are no excuse: Why Obama still needs to act on climate
Last Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry took the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as a chance to do a little pre-midterm electioneering. Drawing an implicit co…
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President Obama, listen to the people and reject Keystone XL
Opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline has always been about people power. Led by farmers and ranchers, tribal communities and everyday Americans, the fight over the pipeline has brought thousands of…
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A glimmer of light: Fracking bans pass across the country
The media is all abuzz about the big conservative wins throughout the country last night. Yet despite the flurry of victories for anti-environmental and pro-fossil fuel candidates, another story is al…
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Midterm election results: Greatest Congress the Kochs ever bought
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the election votes tallied to reveal a Republican Senate majority, many progressive groups are bracing for an assault on environmental protections, clean air and water, and a…
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Friends of the Earth, citing IPCC report, calls for a new era of renewable energy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the final report of its Fifth Assessment Report, a synthesis of three previous IPCC reports. The synthesis report sum…
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Climate activists march 3,000 miles to demand action on climate
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dozens of climate activists participating in the Great March for Climate Action from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., arrived today at the White House, having walked over 3,000 mi…
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High steaks: The case for less and better meat
The meat at the center of your plate is also at the center of some of our world’s greatest ecological and public health threats: deforestation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, climate change, wat…
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Four Halloween scares from ExxonMobil and Chevron
This morning, ExxonMobil and Chevron—the largest and the second-largest oil companies in the US—announced their third quarter profits for 2014. In spite of gloomy expectations that the recent drop…