by Tania Chen | Apr 20, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON- Clad in green hardhats, thousands of young protesters demonstrated outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for the environment. The rally on Monday was the product of a four-day conference called Power Shift 2011, a large grassroots training session. “Sooner...
by Jacob Peklo | Apr 19, 2011 | Environment
Thousands of high school and college students gathered in Washington over the weekend for the Power Shift 2011 conference. They learned how to become better leaders for green energy in their community and pressure their local representatives to make changes. After...
by Courtney Subramanian | Apr 19, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Before George Clooney’s mission in Darfur and Bono’s Red campaign for AIDS, before Madonna’s Raising Malawi nonprofit and Alec Baldwin’s support of National Endowment for the Arts, there was Robert Redford, who pioneered celebrity-driven causes with his...
by Jacob Peklo | Apr 13, 2011 | Environment
The Virgin Islands experienced widespread coral bleaching last summer, and it wiped out even more of a coral population that was decimated in 2005. With another warm summer on the way, what can the Virgin Islands expect this time around? Which industries are the most...
by Eric Skalac | Apr 12, 2011 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON—Miniscule amounts of radiation from Japan’s nuclear emergency have reached the U.S., but Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson assured U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that those amounts were well-monitored and far below dangerous levels. Jackson...
by Matt Mansfield | Apr 7, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON, April 7 — New containment technology unveiled by U.S. oil industry executives has led to eight new permits to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, despite uncertainty over whether the new control systems are actually capable of cleaning up a disaster such as...
