by Virginia Langmaid | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are the most consistently Republican-voting religious demographic in the United States – even as the church increasingly emphasizes environmental stewardship in its teachings and literature. Pew...
by Virginia Langmaid | Mar 11, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Climate activists have been calling on the next president to declare a national climate emergency within his first 100 days in office. But the legality of such a move will be tested when the Supreme Court rules on whether President Donald Trump can...
by Virginia Langmaid | Mar 10, 2020 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON—Bureau of Land Management Deputy Director of Operations Michael Nedd was rebuked from several Democratic and Republican members of a House Natural Resources subcommittee Tuesday for not answering multiple questions on the basic functions of his...
by Virginia Langmaid | Mar 4, 2020 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON—Republicans and Democrats found some room for agreement on Capitol Hill Wednesday, as Republican Rep. Tom McClintock and Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse denounced the federal land management policy as proposed in the Department of the Interior’s 2021 budget...
by Virginia Langmaid | Feb 26, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON –A bill that would pledge U.S. participation in a global plan to protect and restore 1 trillion trees by 2050 endorsed by President Donald Trump at Davos had environmental stakeholders split Wednesday at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing. The...
by Virginia Langmaid | Feb 18, 2020 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON—American national security is threatened by rapid technological advances that often are not understood by the leaders who have to make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons or other life-threatening actions, two nuclear threat experts said Tuesday. New...
by Virginia Langmaid | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — The United States must act quickly to keep pace with Chinese and Russian competition in space, a House leader on space told a forum of industry representatives Tuesday. “When we are talking about major investments in our infrastructure, we can’t leave...
by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 28, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Controlled forest cutting and development of a public-private bank to fund infrastructure changes to respond to climate change were some of the fixes recommended by experts at a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on Tuesday. Anthony Davis,...
by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 21, 2020 | Topics
WASHINGTON —- In a case Justice Sonia Sotomayor called “easy to win,” Supreme Court justices Tuesday heard arguments on whether a subcontractor that didn’t sign the main contract with a foreign-owned company can use a legal concept called equitable estoppel to force...
by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 15, 2020 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Expert testimony on ocean health, emissions and nuclear energy was overshadowed Wednesday by a clash between Republican members and witnesses on the role China and India have to play in addressing global climate change. The House Science, Space and...
by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 9, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON—The new decade will bring increased youth and social media action protesting climate change, the rise of economic arguments for environmental preservation, and corporate and technological interest in sustainability, the World Resources Institute predicted...
