by Lauren Bally and Jason Mast | Nov 16, 2016 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – In a victory for the Blackfeet Nation, the secretary of the interior canceled 15 of the remaining 34-year-old oil and gas leases of Montana land considered sacred by the tribe. In a ceremony at the Department of the Interior, six Blackfeet tribal leaders,...
by Jason Mast | Nov 15, 2016 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s promises to roll back President Barack Obama’s climate change regulations and back out of the Paris Climate Agreement may not have as severe an impact as many environmentalists fear,, a top Energy Department official...
by Darby Hopper | Nov 15, 2016 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Republican legislators questioned Tuesday the logic behind designating federal lands as “wilderness areas” in a House subcommittee hearing on a Utah conservation bill. The debate came about in response to the Central Wasatch National Conservation and...
by Jason Mast | Oct 26, 2016 | Environment, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON – The Syrian civil war and fall out from climate change have curbed long running international success at reducing global hunger, Rick Leach, CEO of the World Food Program, warned Wednesday. Since 2000, innovation and billions of dollars in aid have...
by Anna Waters | Oct 18, 2016 | Environment, Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The recently concluded United Nations climate change meeting in Johannesburg created the strongest protections in history for endangered species, according to U.S. wildlife officials and other experts who attended the meeting. Sharon Guynup of the Wilson...
by Michelle Kim | Oct 12, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Environment, Featured
MIAMI – Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore reunited on the campaign trail Tuesday to highlight what both consider one of the most important issues of the presidential campaign: climate change. “The world is on the cusp of either building on the...
by Rishika Dugyala | Oct 10, 2016 | Environment, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON— In Haiti’s worst hit areas, 80 percent of buildings have been damaged by Hurricane Matthew—cropland destroyed, palm trees flattened for miles, homes missing their roofs. That’s what Margaret Traub, head of Global Initiatives for the International Medical...
by Eunice Lee | Oct 3, 2016 | Business, Energy, Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – For rural Americans and folks living in small towns, biobased products offer “tremendous hope” of more jobs and cleaner energy, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday at a National Press Club luncheon. When it comes to biobased products,...
by Jack Corrigan | Mar 17, 2016 | Environment, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congressmen held nothing back Thursday in their scathing attacks on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy for doing too little to solve the Flint, Mich. water crisis, which left many of the city’s 99,000 residents with...
by Allyson Chiu | Mar 16, 2016 | Energy, Environment
WASHINGTON– Clean energy is a hot topic that’s about to get even hotter. Investment in geothermal energy is a growing global trend, but development in the United States has stalled due to limited incentives and cheaper energy options, geothermal experts said...
by Jasper Scherer | Mar 14, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Energy, Environment
Clinton’s positions on the environment have shifted amid pressure from Sanders and primary voters. (Photo credit: Natalie Escobar) During the Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Michigan, a student in the crowd asked candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie...
by Allyson Chiu | Mar 9, 2016 | Environment
WASHINGTON– A world where all energy is harvested from the wind and sun is becoming a reality with more countries investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, but the U.S. isn’t moving fast enough or spending enough to stay ahead of other nations, a...
