Organizers of Sunday's climate rally in Washington, D.C., say the event drew and estimated 35,000 protesters of the Keystone XL pipeline, making it the largest climate change protest in U.S. history, Bloomberg reports.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council to recognize climate change as an international security threat that jeopardizes their very survival.
Thousand are expected to gather in Washington, D.C. on Sunday for a rally to press lawmakers to take action on climate change and block the Keystone XL pipeline, NewsWorks reports.
NEW YORK (AP) — Up and down the Atlantic coast, people are telling horror stories about how long it has taken to get an insurance check for flood damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. Nearly 40 percent are still waiting for the final settlements they desperately need to rebuild.
With President Barack Obama's mention of climate change in his inaugural address and the State of the Union, my friends in the environmental community have gone crazy, resolving to hold his feet to the fire for action. Now, I don't want to be Debbie Downer, but it will take a lot more than a throwaway mention to get a significant number of squeamish Democrats and certainly a very antagonistic Republican House to go along.
I guess if you have been unfortunately left out of much of the discussion over the last two-plus years because of election politics, you take any sign of progress as a step in the right direction.
TEXCOCO, Mexico (AP) — The research center largely responsible for launching the "green revolution" of the 1960s that dramatically raised crop yields is getting support from the world's richest men to develop genetically-modified seeds to help farmers in the developing world grow more grain in the face of a changing climatic conditions and increased demand.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prominent environmental leaders, including the head of the Sierra Club, were arrested Wednesday after tying themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prominent environmental leaders, including the head of the Sierra Club and the organizer of a public campaign to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, are planning to risk arrest Wednesday at a protest outside the White House.
A Chamber of Commerce study reported more than 100 new EPA rules have been forced by "sue and settle" tactics from environmental groups, The Hill reports.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Charlotte-area residents that a crack at a reactor at Duke Energy's Shearon Harris Plant did not pose a threat to safety, WSOC-TV reports.
An international group of solar trade groups issued a statement calling on the European Union and the U.S. to avoid a trade war over solar panels with China, The Washington Post reports.
The European Union has sent information requests to several commodity-trading firms as part of its investigation into potential energy-price manipulation, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser said a European Union investigation into possible price fixing has not found anything that could damage the company, The Wall Street Journal reports.
ExxonMobil Corp. said it would refocus its research on algae-derived biofuels after it invested $100 million over the last four years with few solid results, Bloomberg reports.
The U.S. Geological Survey said water levels in aquifers declined from 2000 to 2008 at a rate nearly three times greater than any point in the last century, Reuters reports.
