Tiffany & Co. wants to impact the environment positively, and its marine conservation initiative is the latest example.
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Hurricane Milton drives gas demand in Florida, with 16% of stations out of fuel
Myra P. Saefong of MarketWatch reports on gas demand from Hurricane Milton in Florida. Hurricane Milton is one of the Atlantic Basin’s strongest storms on record and the frenzy of evacuations in Florida, where it’s expected to make landfall Wednesday evening, has led to shortages at nearly 16% of the gasoline stations in Florida, according...
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Princeton reverses ban on fossil fuel companies funding research
Amanda Chu and Andrew Jack of the Financial Times report that Princeton is reversing its ban on fossil fuel-funded research. Princeton University has reversed a policy that had sharply constrained the funding of academic research by fossil fuel companies, after pressure from faculty members and concerns that the rules risked hindering work on environmental challenges....
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Vance – and Viewers – Were the Winners in the VP Debate
It's clear that viewers appreciated a thoughtful policy debate that came through in spite of the moderators.
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Harris-Walz Have a Big Fracking Problem
Voters Looking for More Information Aren’t Playing “Gotcha”
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Why many environmentalists are warming to nuclear power
"With respect to safety, forty years ago we were very focused on the potential for low-probability, high-consequence accidents in which the fuel in a nuclear power plant could melt and release radiation to the environment. In response to this risk, nuclear energy technologies in the United States are carefully designed and operated to avoid accidents and minimize their consequences. Here again, several decades of experience of nuclear industry operations, overseen by the NRC, have demonstrated that accidents are very rare, and when they do occur, the radiation exposure is minimal."
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A Better Way to Talk About Climate
The UN Secretary-General’s Doomsday Message Isn’t Helping Anyone
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How the Private Sector Can Protect American Wetlands
Through private sector intervention, our country could protect and restore wetlands.
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Climate activists have lost sight of their mission
"What too many well-meaning activists don’t seem to understand — or don’t want to admit — is that the clean energy industry is nowhere near ready to replace fossil fuels, which make up 60 percent of all electricity production in the United States. Even if the country were prepared politically to start turning off its carbon spigot, it simply could not do so without generating an energy crisis."
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Multibillion-dollar conglomerate donates $100 million to help conserve North American prairies
"Ducks Unlimited started nearly 90 years ago to conserve, restore, and manage wetlands and other habitats for waterfowl. DU has been involved in a 27,000-acre donation that serves as a home to several endangered species in Florida and a project that partially restored a wetland in Minnesota."
