September2015
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BLM’s Flat Canyon Mistake
WildEarth Guardians announced last week that they’re headed to court to stop a lease sale of coal underlying the Manti-La Sal National Forest in Utah. A lot of coal. Estimates have long put the “recoverable” coal...September 21, 2015 798 0 -
Long on Rhetoric, Light on Reality
A new report—Two Years, Not Ten Years—from Philip K. Howard’s Common Good calls for abruptly overthrowing decades of statutory, constitutional and political “accretions” surrounding America’s infrastructure planning. The report itself has attracted little attention, but the underlying...September 12, 2015 563 0 -
Climate of Hypocrisy? The Peculiarity of Glocal Problem Solving
Bill McKibben’s recent column in Medium on physics—or, more specifically, the nonnegotiability of CO2e emissions’ effects in the atmosphere—took President Obama to task for his visit to Alaska and what he called the President’s “climate change hypocrisy.” ...September 3, 2015 626 0
