13 major companies call on Congress to accelerate climate legislation. Here's why
5 years ago
Individual corporate action, no matter how big, won’t solve this great climate crisis. We need companies to lead, not follow, Congress. That’s why it’s big news that 13 major companies have now joined four nonprofit organizations, including Environmental Defense Fund, to form the core of a new effort to push for climate policy.
Source: Forbes
Reimagining Puerto Rico’s energy future
5 years 2 months ago
The business, investor and nonprofit sectors can support local communities’ resolve by sharing their experience in other parts of the world to reimagine Puerto Rico’s energy future.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
Less than zero: can carbon-removal technologies curb climate change?
5 years 2 months ago
The window of opportunity to combat climate change has not closed. A decade of extraordinary innovation has made the greening of the global economy not only feasible but also likely. But we’re going to need negative emission technologies, or NETs, to make it happen.
Source: Foreign Affairs (subscription)
CEOs need to fill the leadership void on climate policy
5 years 3 months ago
Business leaders know it’s no longer enough to simply post their company values online. CEOs need to publicly and visibly put those values to work because investors, employees, and customers now demand it.
Source: Fortune
George H. W. Bush, environmental hero: He exemplified the real art of the deal
5 years 5 months ago
Now, when we must find ways to reduce climate pollution dramatically and without needlessly burdensome costs, we would be wise to look to Bush’s prudent approach: choose flexible, performance-based policies that trigger a hunt for the lowest-cost solutions, both low-tech and high-tech.
Source: New York Daily News
Help wanted: a climate champion for the 2020 election
5 years 5 months ago
With the midterm elections over, the 2020 presidential race now begins in earnest. In what no doubt will be a crowded field, aspiring standard-bearers will start looking for ways to distinguish themselves.
Source: Des Moines Register
McCain Was a Warrior for the Climate
5 years 8 months ago
Tributes to the American hero, who died Saturday at 81, must not overlook the political bravery—and, yes, patriotism—he showed in the fight to meet the threat of climate change.
Source: The Wall Street Journal (subscription)
Capitalism will solve the climate problem
5 years 10 months ago
Climate change is a byproduct of the prosperity created by the market economy, but the market similarly can be an engine to generate cost-effective solutions.
Source: The Wall Street Journal (subscription)
Cummins CEO says innovation, sustainability, and regulations are good for business
6 years 1 month ago
Fred Krupp’s interview with Tom Linebarger, chairman and CEO of Cummins, Inc, explores the formation of Cummins’ sustainability goals and the importance of long-term protective standards in the trucking industry.
Source: Forbes
What if we tracked methane from space and hit the brakes on climate change?
6 years 1 month ago
Fred Krupp share’s EDF’s plan to track global methane emissions with incredible precision using a satellite called MethaneSAT, which will give governments, corporations and the public the data to act. This ambitious plan is one of the first ideas of The Audacious Project, TED’s new initiative to inspire global change.
Source: TED
Fourth Wave environmentalism fully embraces business
6 years 2 months ago
The Fourth Wave will empower people and fundamentally transform how we solve environmental problems. Fred Krupp explains in The Wall Street Journal.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
EPA cuts could risk a public health emergency
6 years 5 months ago
Without full funding for the agency, the health of our children, our seniors and our communities are at risk.
Source: CNN
10 Minutes with Fred Krupp
6 years 5 months ago
“I still think environmental problems are solvable, and taking care of people and air and water pollution should be a common ground. But we absolutely have to get on with getting down to the business of finding those solutions.”
Source: GreenBiz
How Local Utilities Gamed the Natural-Gas Market
6 years 6 months ago
In New England, local utilities placed large orders and then canceled at the last minute, which pushed electric prices up by 20%.
Source: Wall Street Journal
How Local Utilities Gamed the Natural-Gas Market
6 years 6 months ago
In New England, local utilities placed large orders and then canceled at the last minute, which pushed electric prices up by 20%.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Trump team gutting EPA when we need it most
6 years 8 months ago
EPA plays a critical role when natural disasters strike. Congress should oppose dangerous Trump’s budget cuts.
Source: The Hill
Cap and trade for our health, economy and future
6 years 10 months ago
California’s elected leaders showed that even with deep partisan divides fissuring Washington, D.C., Democrats and Republicans can still come together
Source: The Orange County Register
California’s cap-and-trade program: Extend it now
6 years 10 months ago
The program is helping the state cut carbon pollution and injecting billions of dollars into new and innovative clean energy and green technology projects that create good-paying jobs
Source: The Orange County Register
President Trump's Paris decision will live in infamy
6 years 11 months ago
It will hurt the U.S. far more than it hurts the rest of the world. And that's saying a lot, because the global damage will indeed be considerable.
Source: New York Daily News
Trump and the environment: What his plans would do
6 years 11 months ago
Although the President has moved swiftly and aggressively to assault the environment and public health in a short amount of time, public opposition to his dangerous agenda has been equally
Source: Foreign Affairs
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