A carbon tax was always going against the grain — against the presumption that the most straightforward and effective approach to carbon emissions pricing couldn’t prevail over America’s special-interest politics and tax aversion — and against the smart money that insisted on hiding the price and buying off the opposition.
IPS staffer Daphne Wysham debates whether a Carbon Cap and Trade Policy is the best economically viable method to achieve a sustainable level of carbon emissions in the United States.
Our environmental radio show survives another recession year. The host, Daphne Wysham, tells its story.
The United Nations is voting on safe drinking water as a human right.
Using a Currency Transaction Levy to Raise Resources to Address Global Health and Climate Change in Developing Countries
Jack Spadaro speaks out on how the Massey mine disaster could have been prevented.
Network media mavens evoke disaster about the Gulf’s fate, while the gulf between reality and rhetoric grows accordingly.
This report estimates that from 1944 to 2009, about 12.7 metric tons of plutonium were discarded at U.S. nuclear weapon production facilities. This is more than three times than the U.S. Department of Energy’s last official estimate of waste losses made in 1996.
We know the power of poetry to demand change and to heal our world. On July 31, at Eatonville restaurant, we will be using that power to throw a benefit for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a grassroots 501(c)3 environmental health and justice organization that has been helping residents living near Louisiana refineries fight air pollution for years, and is now helping them track and respond to the BP Oil Disaster that is ravaging the Gulf.
Clean energy advocates, landowners, indigenous activists unite to say pipeline puts lives, environment and property in peril.
Spills, leaks and deliberate discharges are happening in oilfields all over the world and very few people seem to care.
What IPS says about the world today.
A video that sums up Cochabamba and the environmental crisis as a love story.
There’s not much in the bill that will actually fight climate change.
Unfortunately, it’s far from what we need.