The Importance of Urban Trees
A new report by the Nature Conservancy has detailed an interesting way to help save lives in cities: planting trees. As the report details, planting trees in urban centers can help reduce pollution while also limiting…
Scott Pruitt as Head of the E.P.A.
This week Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma, was announced as the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency under Trump. Coral Davenport & Eric Lipton, Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Denialist, to Lead E.P.A.,…
Rebecca Bratspies The Climate Injustice Conference, Condensed
Rebecca Bratspies, CUNY Law professor, introduced her panel. She asked “what tools do we have at our disposal, what forces do we have as human society and our institutions to deploy?” Courtesy of The Roosevelt House…
The DAPL Battle Is Not Over
On Sunday, December 4, 2016, the United States Army Corps of Engineers denied a key permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline that would’ve allowed the pipeline to cross the Missouri River and Lake Oahe. This is an important…
Climate Change and the Amazon
Trees act as carbon sinks, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transforming it into food. Camila Domonoske, Deforestation of the Amazon Up 29 Percent From Last Year, Study Finds, www.npr.org, (Dec. 2, 2016). When a…
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