Sentences with phrase «like environmental progress»
At a tense debate in February at UCLA where Jacobson argued over the merits of supporting nuclear versus ramping up renewables, sharing the stage with nuclear supporters like Environmental Progress» Shellenberger and fellow Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira, the question - and - answer session with the audience devolved into a shouting match.
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My takeaway from Cuomo's decision and my chat with Ruffalo is that progress on environmental and energy policy in the United States emerges from a never - ending, and normal, tussle involving a mix of activism, law, economic realities, scientific and technological advances (both in developing energy sources cleanly and tracking problems), improving transparency (which is far greater now, even in places like Wyoming, than a few years ago), politics and lots of communication.
The lack of progress could be seen in the number of points described as «to be elaborated» in a fresh informal text, copies of which flew around the halls like windblown leaves as environmental campaigners, reporters and delegates copied and disseminated it.
Science Editor / / www.polijam.com Your Guide to the News Around the Web [ANDY REVKIN reacts: I actually see it as progress to have environmental stories out of their ghetto and spread around the paper (like the Greentech hydrogen - car story, the piece you mention above, which is here online, the National story about tidal power over the weekend, etc..
There's been incredible progress on many environmental fronts, but huge gaps remain, particularly when the issue is conserving global «commons» ranging from the shared atmosphere — still a free dump for greenhouse gases — to ocean - roaming fish species like bluefin tuna.
The biggest shift since the earlier gathering may be the end of a presumption that international tools like treaties should be a central focus of efforts to drive environmental progress.
Such economic clout makes California ideally positioned to take the lead on energy policy and environmental issues like climate change, even as the United States as a whole has failed to make much progress on either front.
California's Fires Result of a Cooling Pacific, Two Years of La Niña and Environmental Mismanagement Guest Post By Joseph D'Aleo, CCM, ICECAP While environmentalists and clueless politicans like CA Representative Linda Sanchez and not surprisingly Climate Progress» Joe Romm sought to place the blame for the California wildfires on «global warming».
Most of the environmental policy progress in the US over the last 40 years has come through «green drift,» i.e., through agencies like the EPA adapting and expanding America's foundational green laws — the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act — to address environmental policy progress in the US over the last 40 years has come through «green drift,» i.e., through agencies like the EPA adapting and expanding America's foundational green laws — the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act — to address Environmental Policy Act — to address new problems.
The Sierra Club, like other big environmental organizations, has made mistakes when it comes to workers and front - line communities, but we are learning quickly what it looks like when workers and communities both lead and benefit from the clean energy transition — and we're ready to fight for that progress.
Environmental, energy, and global warming concern well may be on American's minds — as recent opinion polls Climate Progress is parsing bear out — but collectively we're barely past admitting we have a problem, let alone starting the depth of societal soul searching the activist community would (rightly) like to see.