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The Keystone Pipeline Just Lost a Top Washington Advocate
Posted by National Journal: None Given on May 7th, 2015
National Journal: The upset election victory by a center-left party in Alberta--the heart of Canada's oil country--may also have eliminated one of the most public faces in the lobbying effort promoting the Keystone XL pipeline.
Former Alberta premiers Alison Redford and Jim Prentice were frequent visitors to Washington to promote the pipeline, and touted it as a necessary project for promoting Canada's oil-sands development. Prentice, who served just eight months, visited D.C. in February, speaking at the U.S....
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Comments Off on The Keystone Pipeline Just Lost a Top Washington AdvocateInside the Complicated Relationship Between Natural Gas and Climate Change
Posted by National Journal: None Given on January 27th, 2014
National Journal: Conventional wisdom tells us natural gas is helping us combat global warming. Like most bits of conventional wisdom, it's not that simple.
First the aforementioned wisdom: Natural gas is unquestionably helping the United States reduce its climate footprint. Our nation's greenhouse-gas emissions have dropped to levels not seen since the 1990s, thanks in part to this cleaner-burning fuel. Natural gas produces half the carbon emissions of coal and about a third fewer than oil. This is why everyone...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Inside the Complicated Relationship Between Natural Gas and Climate ChangeWhy Won’t Obama Visit North Dakota?
Posted by National Journal: None Given on August 25th, 2013
National Journal: North Dakota is like an overachieving child who attracts the attention of everyone--except Dad.
The oil boom taking over western North Dakota and transforming America's energy landscape has prompted visits from people around the world--Germany, Turkey, Japan, Dubai, and elsewhere--to see what they can learn and how they can benefit.
President Obama, however, has not visited the state since moving into the White House (although he did drop in twice during the 2008 presidential campaign).
Sen....
The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change is Costing You
Posted by National Journal: None Given on February 7th, 2013
National Journal: Jimmy Strickland can tell you exactly how much money rising sea levels have cost his business. In 1989, he opened his accounting firm in a one-story brick building near Norfolk’s historic cobblestoned Hague district, which surrounds one of this low-lying city’s many tidal rivers.
Dressed in pinstripes and a large, gold class ring, the white-haired Strickland is a consummate Southern gentleman--and also a consummate small-business owner. In his soft coastal accent, he tells the story of how the...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change is Costing YouIt’s already too late to stop climate change
Posted by National Journal: None Given on December 3rd, 2012
National Journal: Amid the glittering skyscrapers of Doha, capital of the arid, oil-rich Arab emirate of Qatar, 17,000 diplomats, delegates, nongovernmental organizations, and environmentalists are converging this week and next in the conference halls and backrooms of the 18th annual United Nations climate-change summit. Their goal: pave the way toward a world treaty, to be signed in 2015, aimed at slowing global emissions of heat-trapping fossil-fuel pollution enough to keep the planet’s temperature from rising by...
Extreme weather: For once, Al Gore’s excellent timing
Posted by National Journal: None Given on September 16th, 2011
National Journal: Al Gore hasn’t always demonstrated impeccable political instincts, but his timing was right as rain this week when he organized a worldwide extravaganza on climate change.
Gore coordinated a global daylong series of 24 presentations exploring the links between the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the wave of extreme weather buffeting countries across the globe. The presentations began on Wednesday night in Mexico City and proceeded westward, with one occurring each hour...