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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse delivered his 200th speech on climate change on March 13, 2018. (Screengrab from video.)
Northwestern University
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Every week the Senate has been in session since April 2012, Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has delivered a speech about climate change. He just marked his 200th "Time to Wake Up" speech.
Tags: Whitehouse, Sheldon, Senate, congress, climate change, advocacy
Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Sunrise co-founder and Executive Director Varshini Prakash on Feb. 5, 2019. (Medill)
Northwestern University
Tuesday, February 05, 2019
At the State of the Union on Feb. 5, President Donald Trump never mentioned environmental issues and climate change, Medill's Kietryn Zychal reports.
Tags: state of the union, Green New Deal, Edward Markey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Varshini Prakash, Sunrise movement
George Washington University
Monday, December 04, 2017
Self-repairing wind turbines could forever alter the economy of energy, but it needs the funding to get there.
Tags: Dr. Stephen Hsu, wind, energy, microtechnology, innovation, Senate, House of Representatives, wind energy, turbine, Wind turbines
Second Nature
Monday, May 23, 2011
Question: Who do university presidents turn to for thoughts on sustainability? Frank Sesno of course. Our host will headline the upcoming Climate Leadership Summit, organized by Planet Forward member Second Nature.
Tags: climate change, education
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The last couple of weeks of climate change news and legislation offers no better metaphor than from a 15-minute slice of time from this past Sunday's (April 25th) Climate Rally down on the National Mall.
Tags: climate change, Climate Rally
George Washington University
Monday, March 17, 2014
Amit Ronen of the GW Solar Institute talks about what it will take to make solar a viable option at scale, technologically and economically.
Tags: Solar Panels, photovoltaic, tax credits, photovoltaic panels, concentrated solar power
Hay grows under the shade of solar panels at Jack's Solar Garden in Longmont, CO. (Tyler Hickman)
University of Colorado Boulder
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Scientists, drought-stricken farmers, and politicians on both sides of the aisle are expressing increasing interest in solar agriculture.
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Northwestern University
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Cristobella Durrette reports that data released last week shows that the U.S. is not on track to meet Biden's climate change goals, at the start of a year when his climate agenda will face multiple challenges.
Tags: biden, climate policy, global temperature, greenhouse emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency has been running under Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, formerly the deputy administrator, since Scott Pruitt resigned in July 2018. (Flickr/Creative Commons)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | Middlebury College
Monday, October 29, 2018
Meet Andrew Wheeler, the quieter, more potent follow-up to Scott Pruitt's tumultuous EPA reign. But at more than 100 days out, the agency has not confirmed the acting administrator.
Tags: epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Lobbying, politics, environmental policy, storyfest2019
Friday, May 07, 2010
Over the last few weeks since the "Next Steps to A Climate Bill" presentation at George Washington University, the initial diagnosis of collective ADD (Attention-Deficit Disorder) on environmental action I proposed has...well, oscillated maddening