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 [...]