Environmental policy Archives

Environmental policy

Notes on the State of Jefferson

by James Pogue,

A secessionist movement brews in northern California

Spent Fuel

by Andrew Cockburn,

The risky resurgence of nuclear power

A Play with No End

by Christopher Ketcham,

What the Gilets Jaunes really want

Power in Paris

by Rebecca Solnit,

Can the earth be saved by bureaucrats in long meetings, reciting jargon and acronyms while surrounded by leaning towers of documents? That is what’s supposed to happen in France this…

Promises, Promises

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Can Obama redeem his environmental failures?

A Top Obama Aide Says History Won’t Applaud the President’s Climate Policy

by Mark Hertsgaard,

How the president has undercut proposed EPA regulations by moving the goalposts on climate change

Plan

by James K. Galbraith,

Can Capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. —Joseph Schumpeter, 1942 The problem is not how to save capitalism but how to save the unique and successful mixed…

Faustian Economics

by Wendell Berry,

Hell hath no limits

Toxic Inaction

by Mark Schapiro,

Why poisonous, unregulated chemicals end up in our blood

4. The Environment

by Bill McKibben,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” One of the best things about the departure of the Bush Administration will be the end of headache-creating cognitive dissonance. It has taken over institutions…

It’s Not Easy Being Green

by William Souder,

Are weed-killers turning frogs into hermaphrodites?