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Clinton urged by prominent women to place priority on safe drinking water and sanitation
Posted on March 27, 2009Water advocates sent a letter today to Secretary of State Clinton asking her to prioritize the provision of safe drinking water and sanitation, arguing that women bear a disproportionate share of the burden. WATER ADVOCATES, a Washington, D.C. group formed...
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NAS Summit on Climate Change
Posted on March 24, 2009This strikes me as a little late given the approaching Copenhagen deadline, but better late than never. The Summit on America's Climate Choices, to be held March 30-31, 2009 in Washington, D.C., provides an opportunity for study participants to interact...
Briefing on Proposed CO2 Endangerment Finding
Posted on March 24, 2009In the first few weeks of my introductory Environmental Law and Policy course, I ask students to prepare a presidential briefing on a current issue. If any of you have the same approach, you might want to take a look...
North Carolina v. TVA
Posted on March 24, 2009A frequent reader brought this article in Toxic Law Reporter to my attention. Trent Taylor's article discusses the implications of the district court ruling in North Carolina v. TVA and other recent public nuisance rulings. Here's the opening paragraph: On...
Who's (or what's) on first
Posted on March 23, 2009Above you'll find the Recovery.gov image of where the $819 billion stimulus money is going. Below is the CBO's analysis, with graphics by the Washington Post. Clicking on either image will pop-up a full-size image.
Oil Spill along Australia's Sunshine Coast
Posted on March 15, 2009Reuter's reported tomorrow -- the joys of the international dateline -- that Queensland premier Anna Bligh declared Moreton Island, Bribie Island and southern parts of the Sunshine Coast to be disaster zones after an oil spill from a cargo ship...
Let them sue!
Posted on March 15, 2009They still don't get it. AIG's CEO who was brought in after the government took over an 80% stake in AIG is continuing to pay bonuses and "retention pay" to people who have virtually destroyed the global economy -- almost...
Climate Change from the Markey Committee
Posted on March 11, 2009Chairman Edward J. Markey Select Committee UPDATE The Markey Memo Monday, March 9, 2009 UPCOMING HEARINGS: TUESDAY: ?The Future of Coal Under Climate Legislation? Chairman Ed Markey and the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment will hold a hearing titled, ?The...
Supreme Court Rejects Drug Manufacturer Claim that FDA Precludes More Stringent Label Warning
Posted on March 04, 2009The Saga of Snowbasin - Book Review
Posted on February 26, 2009Here's a book review I published in American Scientist about Stephen Trimble's recent book. AmSci link BARGAINING FOR EDEN: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America. Stephen Trimble. xiv + 319 pp. University of California Press, 2008. $29.95....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Gives Willamette University?s Dempsey Environmental Lecture
Posted on February 26, 2009Prominent environmental activist and attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will address ?Our Environmental Destiny? Friday, March 6, at 8 p.m. at the Salem Conference Center as part of the Willamette University Dempsey Lecture Series on Environmental Issues...
Outstanding environmental law professors join the green team
Posted on February 26, 2009Wow. Obama's talent is awesome! JODY FREEMAN: COUNSELOR FOR ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE, WHITE HOUSE Harvard Law School Professor Jody Freeman is serving as a senior advisor to Carol Browner, the White House energy and climate ?czar,? as Counselor for....
President Obama's "State of the Union" Speech
Posted on February 25, 2009The White House has published the "Remarks of President Barack Obama -- Address to Joint Session of Congress" as prepared for delivery on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009. White House link The President called for Congress to send him a cap...
Creating a Sustainable Society - the Role of Social Entrepreneurs and Volunteers
Posted on February 25, 2009Today, the House Committee on Education and Labor had a Congressional hearing on volunteerism. Both Van Jones and Cheryl Dorsey testified to the value of volunteerism for the future of the green movement and social entrepreneurship. Cheryl Dorsey?s video testimony...
National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition
Posted on February 25, 2009Congratulations to all of the participants in the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition held at Pace University during the last few days. Roughly 70 law schools participated in the competition, which featured a difficult and oft-times confusing problem about...
Obama gains nothing on tar sands in Canada
Posted on February 25, 2009President Obama appears to have made no progress with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the Canadian tar sands issue. Harper has requested that tar sands production be excluded from any global climate treaty -- which would be disasterous in...
Will Obama say "NO" to tar sands?
Posted on February 16, 2009The environmental community is mobilizing to get Obama to reject imports of oil produced from tar sands. While the campaign primarily focuses on the climate change impacts, the most pernicious effects of tar sands production are on water, both in...
Christopher Field and Anny Cazenave AAAS reports on rapidly worsening climate change
Posted on February 15, 2009On Saturday, I noted the AAAS meeting report on climate change by Christopher Brown.Climate change worsens more rapidly than IPCC anticipated Here's a bit more on Christopher Field's report from MSNBC:Carbon emissions have been growing at 3.5 percent per year...
Peasant Movement of Papaye
Posted on February 14, 2009Our congregation, 1st Congregational United Church of Christ, is launching our 2009 Drink Water for Life challenge this Lenten season, hoping to collect another $ 8 - 10,000 to help the Peasant Movement of Papaye provide water for three communities...
Ehrenfield Thinking about Sustainability
Posted on February 14, 2009John Ehrenfield recently wrote an editorial in the e-journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy entitled "Sustainability needs to be attained, not managed" Ehrenfield link Since I am in the middle of a short article about sustainability, I found his discussion...
Climate Change Likely To Be More Devastating Than Experts Predicted, Warns Top IPCC Scientist
Posted on February 14, 2009ScienceDaily (2009-02-15) -- Without decisive action, global warming is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, says Stanford scientist Chris Field, a leading member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Here Comes the Sun!!!!
Posted on February 13, 2009As we approach spring in Oregon, we get more and more desperate for the sun (actually its been a great, cold and sunny winter for the most part, but we've got to complain to keep immigrants out). Here's a welcome...
Guns in Parks
Posted on February 13, 2009Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence, posted a blog entry last night (post link) about the Bush Administration guns-in-National-Parks rule. The post is featured onHuffington Post's Environment page today.HP Envt page link The post itself...
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