by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 7, 2019 | Environment, Featured
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., rolled out their plan for the already famed Green New Deal in a joint resolution and press conference Thursday, calling for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The highly anticipated resolution...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 6, 2019 | Environment, Featured
Gov. Charlie Baker, R-Mass., and Gov. Roy Cooper, D-N.C., testified before House lawmakers on Wednesday about the necessity of federal leadership to combat climate change. “Climate change is an existential threat,” said Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., who plans to...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 30, 2019 | Environment, Featured
As climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, experts predict that the effects of hurricanes, floods, and other disasters will be much worse for low-income communities. Houston’s Manchester neighborhood is a symbol of the problem. On one...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 16, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works criticized acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler over his ties to the coal industry, his support for loosening mercury regulations and what they considered lackluster support for...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 10, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – House Democrats, joined by 10 Republicans voted Thursday to pass a bill that would fund the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, which have been shut down for nearly three weeks, though the measure is unlikely to get Senate...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 18, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Washington state argued to the Supreme Court on Wednesday that replacing hundreds of stream culverts blocking salmon migration is onerous and too expensive. In the 1850s, the federal government signed the Stevens Treaties with Indian tribes, granting them...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 21, 2018 | Environment, Featured
Environment Reporter Ben Trachtenberg visits the United States Botanic Garden to learn about ways it is helping to teach sustainable gardening and landscaping across the...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 20, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON— Energy Secretary Rick Perry faced tough questions on proposed funding for oil drilling in the Arctic, renewable energy and security of the energy grid Tuesday during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Trump administration’s 2019...
by Syd Stone | Mar 13, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON —Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s policies are an “unprecedented” attack on public lands and the environment, the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said Tuesday. Zinke explained to the committee President Donald Trump’s 2019...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze & Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 1, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON—This year, Washington’s famous cherry blossom bloom may come a week early—with the peak bloom expected between March 17 and March 20, five days ahead of last year’s date and following a general trend of earlier blooms that researchers say is due to a...
by Kristina Karisch & Anna Laffrey | Mar 1, 2018 | Environment, Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Puerto Rico needs a new “Marshall plan” — a massive U.S. effort to help Europe rebuild after World War II — to recover from the massive devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday. Warren and two other...
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...