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Why Doesn’t the United States Have an Energy Policy To Create Jobs and Protect the Environment?
By Larry J. Schweiger I hope you will join me at National Wildlife Federation’s 75th Anniversary Gala on April 13 in Washington D.C. We’ll honor Robert Redford and the many other conservation heroes who have helped protect wildlife. Here is… Read more >
What Should Congress Do with EPA’s Carbon Rules?
I posted this on the National Journal blog in response to the question of what Congress should do in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules to regulate carbon under the Clean Air Act. Read more >
A Family for the Future of Wildlife
“For the nature of tomorrow, we must be the change that the world desperately needs today” Also posted on National Wildlife magazine: I HAVE LONG THOUGHT of the National Wildlife Federation as part of my family. After all, the organization… Read more >
Sustaining Life: How Our Health Depends on Biodiversity
My friend Dr. Eric Chivian, and Dr. Aaron Bernstein, both with Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, have published an excellent summary of the many diverse and vital ways that the natural world sustains our health… Read more >
An Earth Ethic—Revisited
(Cross-posted from National Wildlife magazine) HAVE YOU NOTICED that wild strawberries picked from tendrils growing in the most impoverished, barren soils have the sweetest fruits? In their struggle for moisture and nutrients, these small, cone-shaped berries enrich and sweeten far… Read more >
Americans Want More Clean Energy & Climate Action, Not Less
Saying things that are boring but true won’t get you invited on all the Sunday talk shows. You’ll get a lot more attention for saying things that are interesting but unjustified. Just look at the media’s analysis of Tuesday’s elections… Read more >
Delaware Nature Society – Putting Skin in the Game
Throughout my life, I’ve been continually inspired by those who put real skin in the game when it comes to protecting what they care most about. That’s why I’m so looking forward to spending time with National Wildlife Federation’s Delaware… Read more >
Fracturing for Frankenfuels
by Larry J. Schweiger I posted this response on National Journal’s blog in response to the question: Should the federal government seek to regulate a controversial extraction method for natural gas known as hydraulic fracturing? Today’s methods make gas drilling… Read more >
Walruses Hauling Out to Alaska Shoreline
By Larry J. Schweiger Thousands of walruses, many of them mothers and calves, have left the shrinking and thinning Chukchi Sea ice for the Alaska shoreline. The packed beaches can lead to tramplings and deaths for the walruses. Read more >
