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By Susan Smith

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 14:15:36

UNGA Adopts Climate Change-Related Resolutions

Posted on December 22, 2008
Last week, among 34 development-related actions put forward by its Second Committee (Economic and Financial), the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a number of resolutions including consideration of the economic ramifications of climate change. Among the climate change-related resolutions, the...

The Plight of the South Pacific Islands -- visit Kiribati with PBS

Posted on December 22, 2008
In the Poland climate change meeting just concluded, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by increasingly severe storms and floods caused by...

Crude falls below $40

Posted on December 22, 2008
Supply cuts can't keep up with the precipitous decline in demand in US and Asia. So OPEC considers cutting production more than last week's 2.2 million barrel cut -- which was already a greater cut than expected. MarketWatch reports: Crude-oil...

Call for Papers: World Water Week Sessions on the Right to Water

Posted on December 21, 2008
Here is a call for contributions on the World Water Week sessions in Istanbul, August 2009, on the right to water. This posting is in both French and English (English below). French Thème 4.1 : le Droit à l?eau ?...

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Science's New Science Policy Blog

Posted on December 21, 2008
Here's the roundup from Science's new policy blog, ScienceInsider: Obama, Obama, Obama. The president-elect keeps making waves in the scientific community even before he has entered office. Yesterday, we were the first news outlet to report that Barack Obama has...

Findlaw Environmental Case Summaries

Posted on December 21, 2008
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CASES Town of Marshfield v. Fed. Aviation Admin. Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC N. Carolina Fisheries Ass'n, Inc. v. Gutierrez Salmon Spawning & Recovery Alliance v. US Customs & Border Prot. Club Members for an Honest Election v....

EPA Overreaches Again on "Interpreting" the Clean Air Act

Posted on December 21, 2008
EPA lost again in the D.C. Circuit on its interpretation of the Clean Air Act in Sierra Club v. EPA, challenging EPA's exemption of facilities from MACT standards during startup, shutdown, or malfunction (SSM). Opinion The damage done in cases...

Not the last word on PSD

Posted on December 21, 2008
According to Trish McCubbin (HT comments on Envlawprofessors), EPA Administrator Steve Johnson issued a memo Thursday finding that CO2 is not a "regulated" pollutant for purposes of the PSD program, meaning that new or modified power plants do not have...

Forecast: Cloudy and Rainy

Posted on December 21, 2008
The art and science of climate modeling has improved enormously over the years with both an increasing sophisticated understanding of climatic feedback effects and the empirical knowledge that can set the parameters or values used in the models. A 2005...

Haiti's Resurrection

Posted on December 18, 2008
Dear Readers and Friends: It is so difficult this time of year to decide how to spend one's limited resources in a way consistent with our duty to reduce human suffering and make the world a better place. It is...

OMB's attack on risk assessment

Posted on December 17, 2008
Those of you who remember OMB's ill-fated revision of risk assessment methods (torpedoed by the NRC) may want to consider OMB's recent adventure into the scientific findings underlying risk assessments. One of the axioms of proper risk assessment/management has been...

The Interior IG Doesn't Pull Punches

Posted on December 17, 2008
I can't do the Interior IG's most recent report on Julie McDonald justice, so I thought I'd just quote it: As you know, in previous investigations we determined that MacDonald injected herself personally and profoundly in a number of ESA...

IEA touts price floors and ceilings

Posted on December 17, 2008
IEA released a new paper IEA paper link on price caps and price floors in climate policy, assessing long-term economic and environmental effects of introducing price caps and price floors in hypothetical climate change mitigation architecture, which aims to reduce...

The Trouble with Rapanos: Bush Administration covered up the collapse of the CWA enforcement program wrought by Rapanos

Posted on December 17, 2008
A Congressional investigation by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar, detailed the collapse of the Clean Water Act enforcement program in the wake of Rapanos...

Deflation Paranoia strikes deep...

Posted on December 17, 2008
Into your heart it may creep Starts when you're always afraid Step out of line The man come and take you away Apologies to Buffalo Springfield I've been avoiding many posts about the economy, to avoid depressing me and my...

World Water Week: Transboundary Waters and other flowing things

Posted on December 17, 2008
The World Water Week in Stockholm, the leading annual global meeting place for the planet?s water issues, now invites workshop abstracts and proposals for seminars and side events to be submited for the 2009 World Water Week, August 16-22. The...

Arctic Ice Melt

Posted on December 17, 2008
Last week, the Sumpter Elementary 5th graders and I did two ice melt experiments. The first experiment compared land-based ice melt with sea-based ice melt. The latter takes about a third as long as the land-based ice melt. With that...

27th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference

Posted on December 17, 2008
DON?T FORGET TO MARK PIELC IN YOUR 2009 CALENDARS! The 27th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference Solidarity! United Action for the Greener Good February 26th ? March 1st University of Oregon School of Law Eugene, Oregon www.pielc.org Read on...

ExxonMobil strikes again!

Posted on December 17, 2008
DOJ just released the news that ExxonMobil has agreed to pay nearly $6.1 million in civil penalties for violating the terms of a 2005 court-approved Clean Air Act agreement. HT Walter James, Environmental Crimes Blog. The 2005 settlement already required...

Case Law from Westlaw

Posted on December 10, 2008
Van Valin v. Gutierrez, (D.D.C.) December 8, 2008: Game - Rescission of final rule limiting halibut harvest and promulgation of new regulations rendered challenge to rule moot. The Secretary of Commerce's rescission of a final rule, limiting the harvest of...

One Reason Why I'm Skeptical of Carbon Markets: UN Suspends CDM Carbon-Offset Verification Firm

Posted on December 10, 2008
Quirin Schiermeier of Nature News reported today Nature link that the UN has suspended the main company that validates carbon-offset projects in developing countries, "sending shockwaves through the emissions-trading business." Certified emission-reduction credits from verified projects are traded and sold...

The Wave of the Future: Grays Harbor files another wave energy application

Posted on December 10, 2008
E & E reported yesterday that Grays Harbor Ocean Energy filed an application with FERC to build 100 structures similar to offshore oil platforms 12 to 25 miles south of Block Island transmitting the electricity to Block Island and to...

Tibetan snows melting faster than expected

Posted on December 10, 2008
During the last week, Sumpter Elementary 5th graders and I have been conducting global warming experiments. Because two of our experiments involve ice melt, I went back to the 4AR to look at estimated contribution to sea level. To my...

New Rapanos Memo

Posted on December 09, 2008
EPA and the Corps in a guidance memo issued December 2 took a somewhat conservative position on what constitutes waters of the United States after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Rapanos. CWA_Jurisdiction_Following_Rapanos 12 02 08.pdf Rather than keep "either...

Bush Administration strikes again

Posted on December 09, 2008
The Bush Administration eliminated protection of rivers in coal mining regions by changing the mountaintop mining rule last week. Pro Publica reported: Ignoring its own scientific study, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that dumping debris from coal mining...

World Council of Churches Central Committee Minute on Global Warming

Posted on December 04, 2008
I am beginning to collect faith-based statements on global warming. I'd appreciate comments and the forwarding of such statements by e-mail. The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, which governs the WCC during the seven years between assemblies,...

Wonder when we'll be able to buy these???

Posted on December 04, 2008
The irony is I've heard they'll be available in India next year for $4000: by Jim Ostroff, Kiplinger.com Thursday, October 30, 2008 Courtesy of MDI A new carmaker has a plan for cheap, environmentally friendly cars to be built all...

Dow Data

Posted on December 02, 2008
I am looking at the long-term trend on the DJIA. It seems to me that between the recovery from the 1987 drop and the beginning of 2008 that the Dow stayed pretty close to 11,000, with the exception of the...

CGD Contribution to Development Index - Environment

Posted on December 02, 2008
Go check out the Center for Global Development's 2007 Commitment to Development Index page. Its got some great graphics that you have to see to appreciate. Unsurprisingly, EU countries lead the way on the Center for Global Development's index of...

The Public Wants Wind and Solar Even Though Initial Costs are Higher

Posted on November 20, 2008
WPO Questionnaire/Methodology (PDF) WPO Full report on poll (PDF) WPO Press Release (PDF) A poll conducted of over 20,000 people in 21 nations by WorldPublicOpinion.org found that the public strongly supports requiring businesses to be energy efficient and utilities to...

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