As ‘Frankenstorm’ Barrels Towards East Coast, Newspaper Coverage Ignores Connection To Climate Change

As ‘Frankenstorm’ Barrels Towards East Coast, Newspaper Coverage Ignores Connection To Climate Change: Media have dubbed the hurricane barreling toward the mid-Atlantic and northeast a “Frankenstorm.” But despite the hysteria surrounding Hurricane Sandy, not one major newspaper has reported the scientifically established link that carbon pollution fuels more extreme weather. In the last week, Sandy has been mentioned in at least 94 stories in major newspapers. Yet a [...]/p

How Richard Mourdock Endangers Children

How Richard Mourdock Endangers Children:  Richard Mourdock, the Mitt Romney-endorsed Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Indiana, is standing by his comments that pregnancy after rape is “something that God intended to happen” and a “gift from God.” While these comments are supposedly “pro-life,” his support for global climate destruction undercuts any notion that he [...]/p

Prop 37: California's Fight for GM Labeling Should Matter to All of US | Common Dreams

Prop 37: California's Fight for GM Labeling Should Matter to All of US | Common Dreams
"California produces much of this country’s food. The Golden State’s labeling law just might set the gold standard for food safety for us all."

Fukushima Operators Struggle to Contain 'Outrageous Amount' of Radioactive Water | Common Dreams

Fukushima Operators Struggle to Contain 'Outrageous Amount' of Radioactive Water | Common Dreams
"Operators of Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant are having trouble storing a perpetual accumulation of radioactive cooling water from the plant's broken reactors, the plant's water-treatment manager, Yuichi Okamura, told the Associated Press in an interview this week."

Why the Right to Know What's in Our Food Has Become One of the Biggest Fights of the Election | Alternet

Why the Right to Know What's in Our Food Has Become One of the Biggest Fights of the Election | Alternet
"The opposition to California's Proposition 37 (which would lable genetically modified foods) has, again, sunk to a new low, according to the measure’s supporters at California Right to Know."

Study: Sustainable Farming Proven to Increase Yield at Zero Cost | Common Dreams

Study: Sustainable Farming Proven to Increase Yield at Zero Cost | Common Dreams
"In potentially "the most important agricultural study this year," researchers find that sustainable farming methods can help conventional agriculture "shed much of its chemical use," according to New York Times writer and food author Mark Bittman."

Wake Up! Our World Is Dying and We're All in Denial | Alternet

Wake Up! Our World Is Dying and We're All in Denial | Alternet
Had we been in a trance? I wanted to shout, "Wake up! Please wake up! Our old future is gone. Matters are urgent. We have to do something now."

Fracking Poisoning Families at Alarming Rate: Report | Common Dreams

Fracking Poisoning Families at Alarming Rate: Report | Common Dreams
"Residents living near gas fracking sites suffer an increasingly high rate of health problems now linked to pollutants used in the gas extraction process, according to a new reportreleased Thursday."

An Answer To ‘Drill, Baby Drill’: Countering The American Petroleum Institute’s Plan For Climate Disaster

An Answer To ‘Drill, Baby Drill’: Countering The American Petroleum Institute’s Plan For Climate Disaster: If you’ve turned on the television, walked by a bus stop, or visited a social networking site in the last 10 months, there’s a very good chance you’ve been targeted by the American Petroleum Institute’s “Vote 4 Energy” campaign. It’s one of the most prominent and consistent ad buys amongst the tidal wave of spending [...]/p

Koch-Affiliated Group Campaigns To Make Wind Tax Credit ‘So Toxic’ Republicans Won’t Back It

Koch-Affiliated Group Campaigns To Make Wind Tax Credit ‘So Toxic’ Republicans Won’t Back It: The wind energy industry faces a lame duck fight in the House of Representatives over extending the expiring production tax credit. The tax credit has broad bipartisan support, and considering that 81 percent of U.S. wind projects are installed in Republican districts, GOP lawmakers have a good reason to support it. But with Koch Industries [...]/p

International Uproar: American Businessman Dumps Tons of Iron into the Ocean in World's Biggest Geoengineering Experiment | Alternet

International Uproar: American Businessman Dumps Tons of Iron into the Ocean in World's Biggest Geoengineering Experiment | Alternet
"A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of  Canada in July, a Guardian investigation can reveal."

How George W. Bush Is Still Killing Environmental Protection Four Years Later

How George W. Bush Is Still Killing Environmental Protection Four Years Later: George W. Bush is not the president. His last EPA Administrator is warming two seats on corporate boards. Yet the dead hand of the Bush Administration continues to choke environmental protection in its grave: [A] divided three-judge panel threw out rules requiring states to control the air pollution that wafts over their borders into other [...]/p

Over Half of All Wetlands on Earth 'Destroyed' in Last 100 Years | Common Dreams

Over Half of All Wetlands on Earth 'Destroyed' in Last 100 Years | Common Dreams
"Over half of all wetlands in the world have been destroyed in the last 100 years due to residential and industrial development, water waste and over-consumption, and pollution,according to a new report released by the United Nations Environment Program."

Why I'm Standing Up to TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas | Common Dreams

Why I'm Standing Up to TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas | Common Dreams
"Make no mistake, we are going through fire. If we just stand there doing nothing, we are going to get burned. But if we accept our ethical responsibility to stand up for each other, and for our life support systems, and if we focus on and work tirelessly for a better future, then that just may be within our reach."

UN Warns of Looming Worldwide Food Crisis in 2013 | Common Dreams

UN Warns of Looming Worldwide Food Crisis in 2013 | Common Dreams
"World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food-exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned."

Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline | Common Dreams

Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline | Common Dreams
"The next great battle of the Occupy movement may not take place in city parks and plazas, where the security and surveillance state is blocking protesters from setting up urban encampments. Instead it could arise in the nation’s heartland, where some ranchers, farmers and enraged citizens, often after seeing their land seized by eminent domain and their water supplies placed under mortal threat, have united with Occupiers and activists to oppose the building of the Keystone XL tar sand pipeline."

'Recipe for Disaster': Group Says No Financialization of Nature! | Common Dreams

'Recipe for Disaster': Group Says No Financialization of Nature! | Common Dreams
"The "financialization of nature" is a flawed approach to saving biodiversity, an environmental groups warns as representatives from over 170 countries meet at a United Nations biodiversity conference."

Todd Akin: No ‘Science’ Behind Evolution

Todd Akin: No ‘Science’ Behind Evolution: Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has had trouble with facts about reproduction. He said in August that women cannot get pregnant from “legitimate rape” because “the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down.” And in 2008, Akin claimed that it is “common practice” for women “who are not actually pregnant” to get abortions. [...]/p

Groups: New England Tar Sands Pipeline Plotted 'Behind Closed Doors' | Common Dreams

Groups: New England Tar Sands Pipeline Plotted 'Behind Closed Doors' | Common Dreams
"A new analysis released today by national and regional environmental groups shows that US oil giant Exxon Mobile and Canada's Suncor hold a majority stake in a pipeline system that local residents along its route fear could soon be used to transport tar sands from western Canada to the New England coast."

Big Coal Wins Latest Battle to Blast Historic Blair Mountain | Common Dreams

Big Coal Wins Latest Battle to Blast Historic Blair Mountain | Common Dreams
"Is nothing sacred to coal companies in Appalachia?"

Supreme Court Upholds $18.2 Billion Judgement Against Chevron For Ecuadoran Pollution | Common Dreams

Supreme Court Upholds $18.2 Billion Judgement Against Chevron For Ecuadoran Pollution | Common Dreams
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a $18.2 billion judgement against Chevron Corp., in which the second-largest U.S. oil company was found to have polluted parts ofthe Amazonian jungle for nearly 30 years."

Counting up to green: Assessing the green economy and its implications for growth and equity | Economic Policy Institute

Counting up to green: Assessing the green economy and its implications for growth and equity | Economic Policy Institute
"What is a green job? We tend to think of a green job as one that benefits the environment, but illustrations tend to be limited to fossil fuels vs. renewable energy. In fact, whether to categorize a specific occupation as a green job is not always straightforward: what about bus drivers, or software engineers who help design smart-grid technologies, or commercial construction workers? The economy is made up of more than coal miners and solar panel installers, and many occupations have significant roles to play along the spectrum between the fossil fuel economy and a “clean” economy. Without a definition of what green jobs are it is difficult to count them, much less determine what role green jobs and industries play in the economy today and going forward."

Documenting Votes From ‘The Most Anti-Clean Energy, Do-Nothing, Pro-Pollution Congress In History’

Documenting Votes From ‘The Most Anti-Clean Energy, Do-Nothing, Pro-Pollution Congress In History’: by Luke Morgan A new report released this week breaks down 223 of the 315 votes the House of Representatives has made against clean energy and in favor of the fossil fuel industry over the last two years. The report, released by the Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee, details 127 votes to [...]/p

Only a Revolution in Our Thinking Can Save Us From a Water Crisis | Alternet

Only a Revolution in Our Thinking Can Save Us From a Water Crisis | Alternet
"As we head into the fall nearly half of U.S. states are experiencing extreme or exceptional drought . Lack of rainfall is the easy culprit, but the truth is we don't manage our water resources well enough to deal with times of shortage. Just ask Atlanta, which went nearly bone-dry in 2007 or Las Vegas, which is working on an engineering a pricy $15 billionwater pipeline to supplement its dwindling stocks. We can't blame it all on our flushing frenzy though; power plants and agriculture suck up the vast majority of our water. Not to mention the fact that industry often gets a free pass to pollute, our city managers fail to account for water when green-lighting new development, and we turn the other way when asked to consider the impacts of climate change."

Sick: Government Sprayed Radioactive Chemicals on Poor People in Science Experiment, Study Claims | Alternet

Sick: Government Sprayed Radioactive Chemicals on Poor People in Science Experiment, Study Claims | Alternet
"The U.S. government may have used a densely-populated swath of low-income housing projects in St. Louis as its radioactive chemical testing ground through the 1950s and 1960s, according to a new study."

October 5 News: ‘Once Again We Are Decades Ahead Of Schedule,’ Says Michael Mann About Looming Sea Level Rise

October 5 News: ‘Once Again We Are Decades Ahead Of Schedule,’ Says Michael Mann About Looming Sea Level Rise: One of the world’s foremost climate scientists has warned that vulnerable island states may need to consider evacuating their populations within a decade due to a much faster than anticipated melting of the world’s ice sheets. [Guardian] “We know Arctic sea ice is declining faster than the models predict,” Mann told the Guardian at the [...]/p

If America Only Knew How Much Arsenic Ends Up on the Average Dinner Plate | Alternet

If America Only Knew How Much Arsenic Ends Up on the Average Dinner Plate | Alternet
"The American right wing loves to hate Big Government, but does size matter? Perhaps the problem is not Big Government, but Dumb Government, Inefficient Government or even Corrupt, Sold-Out, or Inept Government. The recent bombshell Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports , dropped – that rice contains dangerous levels of arsenic – illustrates how good, effective government can save lives by keeping deadly toxins out of the food supply whereas our federal bureaucracy (aided, abetted and cajoled by industry) has instead let us down."

California Gasoline Crisis Shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars | Common Dreams

California Gasoline Crisis Shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars | Common Dreams
"The Big Oil lobby is always talking about how unreliable wind and solar energy are. They say the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and the sun doesn’t shine at night. But actually, there are ways, such as hydropumps, to store renewable energy for use later. And increasingly sophisticated computer programs are getting good at being able to feed more wind energy into the grid when that source is strong, and switching to other sources when there is a lull."

Climate Deniers and Skeptics Get Taken Seriously in American Newspapers... Not So Much by the Rest of the World | Alternet

Climate Deniers and Skeptics Get Taken Seriously in American Newspapers... Not So Much by the Rest of the World | Alternet
"America is unique when it comes to giving a platform to climate deniers and skeptics."

American Newspapers Give Far More Coverage To Climate Deniers And Skeptics Than Other Countries

American Newspapers Give Far More Coverage To Climate Deniers And Skeptics Than Other Countries: America is unique when it comes to giving a platform to climate deniers and skeptics. According to a new analysis of data released last year, American newspapers are far more likely to publish uncontested claims from climate deniers, many of whom challenge whether the planet is warming at all and are “almost exclusively found” in [...]/p

Arctic Ice Melt is 'Decades Ahead' of Previous Models | Common Dreams

Arctic Ice Melt is 'Decades Ahead' of Previous Models | Common Dreams
"Arctic sea ice is "declining faster than the models predict," Mann, who is the director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, told the Guardian this week."

New Findings on Methane Highlight Urgency of Climate Action | Common Dreams

New Findings on Methane Highlight Urgency of Climate Action | Common Dreams
"Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane began well before the Industrial Age, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, raising questions over the benchmark used to calculate global warming and adding urgency to addressing climate change."

Superweeds Lead To Heavier Pesticide Use On Crops

Superweeds Lead To Heavier Pesticide Use On Crops: When Congress finally gets around to passing the Farm Bill after the election, they are likely to overlook a small provision tucked into the House version, which would eliminate all substantive regulation of genetically modified foods. A new study published in Environmental Sciences Europe adds to the mounting evidence that GMOs need more, not less, [...]/p

Sh*tstorm: Arizona's Bizarre New Use for Human Waste | Alternet

Sh*tstorm: Arizona's Bizarre New Use for Human Waste | Alternet
"This year, the Arizona ski resort, located near Flagstaff, will become the first ever to charge humans to glide about in their own waste: 100% pure sewage effluent. How’d you like to face-plant in that?"

Studies Confirm Climate Change Causes Further Destruction to Marine Life | Common Dreams

Studies Confirm Climate Change Causes Further Destruction to Marine Life | Common Dreams
"Two recent studies contribute damning evidence that climate change is contributing to the decline of marine life around the world."

'Intimidation, Threats, and Lawyers': The Great American Gas Fracking 'Land Grab' | Common Dreams

'Intimidation, Threats, and Lawyers': The Great American Gas Fracking 'Land Grab' | Common Dreams
"Introducing a couple from Texas who, despite their objection, had the natural gas sucked out from beneath their property by the Chesapeake Energy Corporation without paying a dime in compesation, an investigative report by Reuters recounts how the gas giant has embarked on an aggressive nationwide "landgrab" with a series of legal maneuvers and industrial fracking equipment in tow."

Barry Commoner: The Greatest Environmentalist of the 20th Century | Common Dreams

Barry Commoner: The Greatest Environmentalist of the 20th Century | Common Dreams
"Barry Commoner (1917-2012) had a deep influence on Greenpeace back in the 1980s and 1990s, and was often way ahead of us on particular fronts."

5 Strange Diseases Making a Comeback Thanks to Humanity's Stupidity | Alternet

5 Strange Diseases Making a Comeback Thanks to Humanity's Stupidity | Alternet
"In 2012, none of America's top killers are contagious. You don't get cancer, diabetes, or heart disease at the swimming pool or just because someone sneezed on you. But a hundred years ago, you probably  died from something you caught . While hygiene and modern medicine have thankfully eliminated the deadliest of those bugs, there's still plenty of parasites, bacteria, and viruses hoping to reproduce in the warm, cozy environment of your body. Like it or not, we and these microbes are intimately intertwined.

Climate change is expanding the geographic reach of some diseases, possibly including  hantavirus, brain eating amoebas , and at least  seven others ."

$34.4 Million Can’t Seem To Buy Prop 37 Opponents Their Own Facts | Common Dreams

$34.4 Million Can’t Seem To Buy Prop 37 Opponents Their Own Facts | Common Dreams
"Apparently $34.4 million in pesticide and junk food money can’t buy the opponents of Proposition 37 their own set of facts."

Study Linking GM Maize to Cancer Must Be Taken Seriously by Regulators | Common Dreams

Study Linking GM Maize to Cancer Must Be Taken Seriously by Regulators | Common Dreams
"But last week, Seralini brought the whole scientific and corporate establishment crashing down on his head. In a peer-reviewed US journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, he reported the results of a €3.2m study. Fed a diet of Monsanto's Roundup-tolerant GM maize NK603 for two years, or exposed to Roundup over the same period, rats developed higher levels of cancers and died earlier than controls. Séralini suggested that the results could be explained by the endocrine-disrupting effects of Roundup, and overexpression of the transgene in the GMO.

This was scientific dynamite. It was the first time that maize containing these specific genes had been tested on rats over two years - nearly their full lifespan - as opposed to the 90-day trials demanded by regulators. Around a dozen long-term studies of different GM crops have failed to find similar effects. Séralini's study also looked at the toxicity of the Roundup herbicide when fed directly to rats.

If the study stood up, then the consistent arguments of the industry that its GM maize is safe might be fatally undermined, with immense political, financial and social consequences."

Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food Supply | Common Dreams

Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food Supply | Common Dreams
"Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans."

Oxfam Warns Climate Change And Extreme Weather Will Cause Food Prices To Soar

Oxfam Warns Climate Change And Extreme Weather Will Cause Food Prices To Soar: A report from Oxfam warns that global warming and extreme weather will combine to create devastating food price shocks in the coming decades. Oxfam had previously warned that corn or maize would see a 177% rise in price by 2030 due to climate change and other factors (see Oxfam: Extreme Weather Has Helped Push Tens of Millions [...]/p

Police Accused of Using Torture Tactics Against Nonviolent Keystone XL Pipeline Protesters | Alternet

Police Accused of Using Torture Tactics Against Nonviolent Keystone XL Pipeline Protesters | Alternet
"A tree-sit continues in Texas despite an unprecedented escalation in police and industry violence toward peaceful blockaders working to prevent construction of the Keystone XL pipeline."

As Sea Levels Rise, Pacific Island Nations Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change | Common Dreams

As Sea Levels Rise, Pacific Island Nations Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change | Common Dreams
"Two small Pacific Island nations called on the United Nations this week to facilitate immediate action and a legally binding agreement to curb global warming, which has caused steadily rising ocean levels, immediately threatening the soon to be submerged states."

ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair with Fracking | Common Dreams

ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair with Fracking | Common Dreams
"Through ALEC, corporate lobbyists have an equal vote with state legislators on ALEC “model” bills, that are pushed in states across the nation. Often the bills were drafted by the corporate lobbyists before being approved by ALEC "task forces." ALEC's legislative agenda includes efforts to bar taxes on windfall profits of energy companies and numerous bills that would make it harder to regulate carbon or address global climate changes, as well as bills that would make it harder to hold these and other companies accountable when Americans are killed or injured as a result of a corporation's product or practices in regulated industries."

Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis | Common Dreams

Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis | Common Dreams
"But what does Nestlé know about delivering water and sanitation services? Nothing! It is involved with this partnership to gain credibility and to have the Swiss government open doors to new private water markets in the developing world. It is the same reason the company is deeply involved with the funding arm of the World Bank. In fact, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe chairs a new advisory board called the 2030 Water Resources Group that helps set policy models and priorities for water and sanitation programs around the world.

This is a disaster in a world where demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. As Wenonah Hauter from Food and Water Watch says, Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water. And of course, it is about capitalizing on the global water crisis.

It is time to call out Nestlé and the governments that partner with them. I will return to Nestlé’s home base again soon where we will shout out against this malevolent water hunter."

California's Prop 37: Monsanto, GMO Labelling and the Public Interest | Common Dreams

California's Prop 37: Monsanto, GMO Labelling and the Public Interest | Common Dreams
"While the initiative merely seeks to add a few words to nutrition labels, it has incurred the wrath and moneyed opposition of biotech and food giants - no doubt because they fear the initiative might herald actual regulations on an industry that has long been allowed to experiment willy-nilly with the food people consume in the United States."

100 Million Could Die Due To Climate Change By 2030

100 Million Could Die Due To Climate Change By 2030: 100 million people could die as a result of climate change by 2030, a new report from DARA, a nonprofit institute based in Spain, concludes. Climate change already contributes to “400,000 deaths on average each year,” mainly due to “hunger and communicable diseases that affect above all children in developing countries,” while “an estimated 4.5 [...]/p

Food System Failure: Cows Eating... Gummy Worms? | Common Dreams

Food System Failure: Cows Eating... Gummy Worms? | Common Dreams
"A recent article from Reuters paints a frightening picture of the U.S. industrial agriculture system that has cows eating cookies and gummy worms, and farmers unable to afford the corn they have become dependent on for feeding the animals."

Fighting Keystone XL in the Heart of Texas | Common Dreams

Fighting Keystone XL in the Heart of Texas | Common Dreams
"Now in the tradition of forest defenders in the Northwest and mountain defenders in Appalachia, the Texas campaign has embraced escalated direct action as a tool to delay and stop the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. It’s good to remember as climate movements move forward using these tactics, the more we escalate, the more we will sacrifice."

$20 Dollar Per Ton Carbon Tax Could Reduce Deficit By $1.2 Trillion In 10 Years

$20 Dollar Per Ton Carbon Tax Could Reduce Deficit By $1.2 Trillion In 10 Years: Over the last year, there’s been increasing talk in Washington political circles — including conservative ones — about how to use a carbon tax as a deficit reduction tool. However, with an election season in full swing and a large number of Congressional Republicans campaigning against climate action, the current likelihood of getting a price [...]/p

The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Shockingly Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants Into the Earth | Alternet

The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Shockingly Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants Into the Earth | Alternet
"The waste – the byproduct of oil and gas drilling – was described in regulatory documents  as a benign mixture of salt and water. But as the liquid rushed from the trucks, it released a billowing vapor of far more volatile materials, including benzene and other flammable hydrocarbons."

Top 10 Ways Corporate Food Is Making Us Fat and Threatening Our Food Supplies | Alternet

Top 10 Ways Corporate Food Is Making Us Fat and Threatening Our Food Supplies | Alternet
"Large corporations account for half of the national economy and pay more for lobbyists to write and pass laws in Congress favorable to themselves than they do in Federal taxes. The way in which the Congressional committees that are supposed to watch certain industries actually become beholden to them is called ‘legislative capture.’

For this reason, I don’t entirely trust the US government any more to look out for our health. We are increasingly exposed to thousands of chemicals that haven’t really been tested (plastics are full of them). We’re not even given the courtesy of knowing which foods are genetically modified so we can make a market choice for the natural ones.

Here are the top ten disturbing news stories about our food that have come across my screen in recent days, and which inspire a certain amount of alarm in me."

Romney Energy Plan: Hot Cow Manure on Climate Change's Open Wounds

Romney Energy Plan: Hot Cow Manure on Climate Change's Open Wounds
"Facing the greatest threat in human history - catastrophic climate change - Mitt Romney, mixing arrogance, ignorance and the denial of science, would have us practice the modern-day equivalent of putting hot cow manure on open wounds."

Analysis: 93 Percent Of Fox News Climate Coverage Is ‘Misleading’

Analysis: 93 Percent Of Fox News Climate Coverage Is ‘Misleading’: There’s a new report out today analyzing climate coverage from Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and Wall Street Journal. The results likely won’t shock anyone who reads this blog. According to a review of recent climate coverage at these two outlets, 93 percent stories from Fox News on climate were misleading and 81 percent of stories [...]/p

Tipping into New Climate Territory as Scientists Put Fears on Ice | Common Dreams

Tipping into New Climate Territory as Scientists Put Fears on Ice | Common Dreams
"AS ARCTIC sea ice hits a record low, focus is turning to climate ''tipping points'' - a threshold that, once crossed, cannot be reversed and will create fundamental changes to other areas."

The 50th Anniversary Of ‘Silent Spring’ Reminds Us Of The Importance Of Environmental Regulations

The 50th Anniversary Of ‘Silent Spring’ Reminds Us Of The Importance Of Environmental Regulations: by Arpita Bhattacharyya This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the release of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a book often credited with launching the modern environmental movement. As we celebrate recent vital regulations, from new fuel economy standards to carbon pollution standard, it’s important to look back on how one book moved the American public [...]/p