1:37 pm in arctic, barack obama, Business & Politics, oil by TreeHugger

This is bound to be challenged by every single environmental group with a stake here, but it's still really not encouraging:
New York Times reports that the Department of Interior has granted
Shell conditional approval to start drilling oil exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean starting next summer. The proposed drill sites are in the Beaufort Sea just north of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, and east of Prudhoe Bay and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline....
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11:48 am in barack obama, Business & Politics, global climate change by TreeHugger
photo: Utenriksdepartementet UD/Creative Commons
Assessing
President Obama's environmental record so far seems to be the rage in the past few weeks. First
Slate and now
Yale e360 is stock-taking, enlisiting a dozen prominent environmental activists, economists, and pundits to extend their views...
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6:28 pm in barack obama, Business & Politics, united states by TreeHugger

President Obama is getting ready to kick his reelection campaign into high gear. As such, it's an opportune time to take a look back at his achievements in the environmental arena thus far -- and that's precisely what
Slate's Green Lantern has done here, serving the president an environmental report card for his first term. Go
see how he fared. What grade would you give Obama for his work in the green sphere?
...
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12:18 pm in barack obama, Business & Politics, conservation, united states by TreeHugger
Image: james.gordon6108 via flickr
There are a lot of things about environmental policy from the Bush era that we'd like to see reversed, but one thing he may have done better than Obama is preserve, or at least not destroy, national parks, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. We already know these treasured public places,
America's best idea,
are in trouble, but PEER has put together an interesting a...
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