Conservation

Polar Bear Protection Decision Due

 |  May 8, 2009

UPDATE 10:27am: Hearing we may get a decision this morning. I’ll keep you updated. A critical decision is expected any minute now from the Obama administration: A decision involving the … Read more

Rep. Pence’s Five Seconds of Silence

 |  May 6, 2009

Five seconds doesn’t seem like a long time. Heck, it took me that long to type that sentence. But when you’re behind a microphone at a press conference, five seconds … Read more

What Are We Waiting For?

 |  May 6, 2009

There’s nothing like going to a college campus to remind you about what’s really at stake. The University of St. Thomas Students for Sustainability invited me to the campus to … Read more

NWF: GOP Leaders Resurrect Cheney Energy Plan

 |  May 5, 2009

House Republicans are holding a mock climate hearing today in the Capitol Visitors Center. Here’s what Joe Mendelson, the National Wildlife Federation’s global warming policy director has to say about … Read more

Obama to Huddle with House Dems on Clean Energy Bill

 |  May 5, 2009

President Obama is calling all 36 Democrats from the House Energy & Commerce Committee to a meeting at the White House today: A White House aide said Obama plans to … Read more

House GOP Holding “Mock” Climate Hearing

 |  May 1, 2009

Mocking the climate crisis? Mocking the political process? A little of both, I guess. Reports Politico: While Democrats bicker over a sweeping climate change bill, Republicans are going rogue, crafting … Read more

Insomniac Bears

 |  Apr 30, 2009

Last week I met a wildlife biologist from New Hampshire. Each year he sees animals that can’t adapt to the rising temperatures– grizzly bears that won’t hibernate and snowshoe hares … Read more

NRDC Digs Into Newt’s Cement Story

 |  Apr 30, 2009

When I live-blogged Newt Gingrich’s testimony before the House Energy & Commerce Commmittee last week, I left out a yarn Newt spun about a cement factory. The story was allegedly … Read more

Shadowy Group Launches Attack on Clean Energy

 |  Apr 30, 2009

As the National Wildlife Federation predicted last month, big polluters and their allies have launched a major blitz against clean energy & climate legislation. And now CQ reports the latest … Read more

National Wildlife Federation’s Twestoration

 |  Apr 29, 2009

Come join me and many other like-minded conservationists in Pittsburgh on Saturday May 2. As part of National Wildlife Federation’s Annual meeting, we’ll be heading outside to restore wildlife habitat … Read more