Fighting Climate Change in the Courts

Kivalina is a tiny Inupiat Eskimo village built on a barrier island above the Arctic Circle. Sea ice used to protect the island from winter winds, but now that sea ice is gone and the island is eroding. The Kivalina blame global warming – specifically, a couple dozen oil and utility companies, including Exxon Mobile and [...]

EPA Says Greenhouse Gases Are Dangerous, Can Be Regulated

Yesterday, the EPA announced that global warming pollution endangers the health and welfare of Americans, and must it be reduced. This “endangerment finding” means the EPA will move forward with preparations to regulate large emitters of greenhouse gases.
In 2007, the Supreme Court had ordered the Bush administration to determine whether greenhouse gases were [...]

15-Year-Old Activist Seeks Independence from Fossil Fuels

Alec Loorz was just 12 years old when he first saw An Inconvenient Truth. The film moved him to launch his own Web site and non-profit organization devoted to fighting global warming and encouraging other young people to get involved.
Now Loorz is 15, and his Web site and other projects continue to build momentum. [...]

EPA Presses Case to Regulate Greenhouse Emissions

This week, the EPA is holding public hearings in Arlington, Va., and Chicago on the agency’s proposal to begin regulating global warming gases from power plants, oil refineries, factories and other major sources, under the authority of the Clean Air Act.
The current Clean Air Act regulations for such pollutants as lead, sulfur dioxide, and [...]

Forward Progress in Copenhagen: Climate Action Hotline, Nov. 19

November 19, 2009

Just as in Stockholm in 1972, when global leaders first met to limit the harm caused by industrial pollution, and again in Rio in 1992 and in Kyoto in 1997, the approaching United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is a rare turning point moment for the world to carefully consider [...]

Study Shows: Yes, It’s Getting Warmer

Daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, according to new research.
The study, by authors at National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate Central, The Weather Channel and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), looked at millions of daily high and low [...]