The NY Times has an important editorial up today, arguing for the extension of the Treasury Cash Grants for renewable energy.  Some background: last year, in response to the most significant economic downturn in several decades, the Treasury Grant Program...

          Above is a GIS-coded map of metropolitan Baltimore, a region approximately 70 miles north to south and, at its widest point, about 60 miles east to west.  Below are similar maps of the San Francisco Bay Area and metropolitan Portland, Oregon. ...

  Denver’s Highlands’ Garden Village is justly regarded as one of the country’s best exemplars of smart, green urbanism.  As I wrote in yesterday’s post, it has some of just about everything we look for in a great neighborhood development,...

WASHINGTON (July 29, 2010) -- EPA today denied petitions from a rogues gallery of climate deniers who had asked the agency to reconsider its scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and the environment.

WASHINGTON (July 20, 2010) -- More than 1,100 U.S. counties -- a full one-third of all counties in the lower 48 states -- now face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming, and more than 400 of these counties will be at extremely high risk for water shortages, based on estimates from a new report by Tetra Tech for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

WASHINGTON (June 29, 2010) – Following a meeting between President Obama and a bi-partisan group of Senators to discuss climate and clean energy legislation, Dan Lashof, director of the Climate Center Director at NRDC, made the following statement: “The President and a bi-partisan group of Senators met today for 90 minutes to discuss passing clean energy and climate legislation in the Senate this summer. The President made it clear that legislation should include a limit on carbon pollution. The President’s continued leadership on this issue is essential to making progress....