Environment & Climate Change

  • Sandy Recovery: Building Back Better
    By Vanessa DeSantisAs cities and towns repair the catastrophic damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, local officials plan to rebuild to be more resilient to the high winds and flooding likely to come...
  • Sustainability planning progress
    California regional planning organizations have been working for several years now on integrated planning intended to reduce carbon emissions. You can get a good update on the progress of this effort...
  • Environmentalists make final election push
    Climate change deniers and financial lackeys of the fossil fuel business will have to go through two major environmental groups to win seats in Congress on Nov. 6The League of Conservation Voters (...
  • Largest energy retrofit finance program launched
    San Jose and 125 other cities, as well as 14 California counties, have joined forces to launch the nation's largest PACE program, an innovative financing tool to help commercial property owners...
  • California's cap-and-trade program gets started
    One of the biggest tests of the idea of using a free market mechanism to regulate carbon emission is being put to the test as California implements a cap-and-trade program.
  • New fuel efficiency standards finalized
    The Obama administration has announced final rules for cleaner cars. Together with earlier standards, these rules will double average fuel efficiency for new cars to 54.5 mpg by 2025, cutting their...
  • Emissions take toll on parks
    By Andre Shashaty, President, PSC
  • Who's who among carbon lovers in Congress
    If we eventually learn that global warming is not a threat or is not caused by carbon emissions humans generate, hundreds of forward-looking corporations and thousands of cities that are trying to...
  • Cascades Paper - Leadership In Sustainability
    Away from the built environment, there are many ways in which companies and the public alike can inject sustainable behaviors into their daily lives and make a significant impact on the physical...
  • EPA Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations Held Up By Court of Appeals
     In a continuing effort to limit the industrial emissions of greenhouse gasses across the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was recently reaffirmed by a federal appeals court that...
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