Today, Senators Max Baucus (Mont.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) renewed the urgent call to protect American communities, lands, and waters from the effects of climate change by introducing Securing America’s Future and Environment (SAFE) Act.
The Wilderness Society welcomes the Administration’s decision to slow down the Keystone XL pipeline juggernaut long enough to address the looming catastrophe of climate change.
This weekend, thousands of citizens locked hands around the White House and called on the President not to approve the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline project. Why?
On July 20th, 2011, EPA published its Final Three-Year Deferral Rule which deferred for three years a requirement for biomass burning facilities to account for their net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
"Keystone" – the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry arch which is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch to bear weight.
This blog post is written by Valerie Shen, a sophomore at Harvard College, who is interning this summer for the Climate Change Policy team at The Wilderness Society.
Conservation programs are a teeny tiny slice of our overall budget. We won’t balance our budget on the back of our environment, but you’d never know that watching the budget fight in Congress.
Just a few months ago, anti-climate zealots in the U.S. House of Representatives attacked the Environmental Protection Agency’s programs to cut pollution in our air.
