Conservation

We’re in Our Best Position Ever for Federal Legislation to Safeguard Wildlife From Climate Change

 |  Oct 27, 2009

Download TESTIMONY OF LARRY SCHWEIGER-10-28-09 Tomorrow I’ll be testifying in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the need to safeguard wildlife and natural resources and the … Read more

An Inconvenient Truth In The Classroom: Free High School Curriculum

 |  Oct 26, 2009

Many Americans have seen the Oscar-winning film documentary, An inconvenient Truth.  It is based on a powerful visual and factual presentation on the realities of global warming that was developed through many years of hard … Read more

Campus Team at VA Power Shift 2009

 |  Oct 26, 2009

The Virginia Power Shift was hosted at George Mason University this weekend. More than 100 students from VA campuses gathered to speak out for climate legislation and participate in workshops including … Read more

Good News for Polar Bears

 |  Oct 23, 2009

The Department of Interior gave the polar bear some relief yesterday by proposing to designate over 200,000 square miles of the polar bear’s melting ice habitat and other habitat as … Read more

Operation FREE Veterans – Heroes, Not Traitors

 |  Oct 22, 2009

Veterans of the U.S. armed forces are doing a bus tour around the country speaking on energy independence and climate change as national security matters. Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe … Read more

Highlight of the Week: Sportsmen and Veterans Air Global Warming Concerns

 |  Oct 22, 2009

The threat of unchecked global warming has brought some nontraditional groups to the table to demand legislation that cuts carbon pollution and stimulates a clean energy economy. Among them: Iraq … Read more

Economic Message of the Week: Report: Vice President Biden Releases Clean Energy Recovery Report

 |  Oct 22, 2009

Vice President Biden joined the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal departments to release a report, Recovery Through Retrofit, detailing efforts to increase clean energy job opportunities and make homes more energy efficient. … Read more

EPA Releases Suppressed Bush-Era Global Warming Findings

 |  Oct 22, 2009

An Environmental Protection Agency document buried by the Bush administration because of its corroboration of global warming science surfaced, casting doubts on White House environmental efforts between 2000 and 2008.   … Read more

Global Warming Migration May Create 'Climate Exiles'

 |  Oct 22, 2009

The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) says the effects of unchecked global warming may create groups of "climate exiles" – migrant communities left homeless by turbulent environmental conditions and unprotected by … Read more

Expert Forecasts Ice-Free Arctic

 |  Oct 22, 2009

A leading polar scientist says global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean virtually devoid of ice within 20 years, posing a severe threat to resident wildlife such as seals and polar bears … Read more