by Ben Trachtenberg | Feb 27, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — America’s coastal communities are threatened by storms and hurricanes more than ever, but the law regulating development on coastal wetlands — and determining which areas cannot get federal flood insurance — is outdated, experts told a House subcommittee...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Feb 14, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON-The controversial acting deputy director of the National Parks Service testified before a Senate committee Wednesday in opposition to legislation establishing various National Heritage Areas. That stance follows a reversal of previous NPS policy that...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Feb 13, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — A coalition of companies, academics and nonprofits Tuesday launched a new initiative to recycle two million more car batteries, which they claim will mean that virtually all car batteries in the U.S. will be recycled. Conventional car batteries are made...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Jan 18, 2018 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON— Last year was the one of the warmest on record, according to a joint report released Thursday by scientists from NASA and NOAA. “2017 was the second warmest year in the NASA GISTEMP record, only less than 2016,” said NASA Goddard Institute...
by Syd Stone | Jan 18, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Cleaning up the hazardous waste at Superfund sites is taking too long and the fact that some sites from the original 1980 list have not been fixed is “embarrassing,” a member of the House Subcommittee on Environment said Thursday during a hearing. The...
by Syd Stone | Jan 17, 2018 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is part of two recent landmark agreements to protect the Arctic and Antarctic oceans because of damage from climate change and melting ice, diplomats said Wednesday. The U.S., the European Union and eight countries bordering the Arctic concluded...
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...
