Sep 02 Obama Drops Proposed Clean Air Rules President Obama has reversed course on proposed smog standards, a victory for business interests that had decried the smog restrictions on the grounds that they should be postponed -- until at least 2013 -- due to the recession. The… Continue reading
Sep 01 Watch If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT is the remarkable story of the group's rise and fall, told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Continue watching
Sep 01 Watch Arsonists or Terrorists? Film Details Rise, Fall of Earth Liberation Front Cell Film Chronicles Rise and Fall of Eco-Terrorist Cell… Continue watching
Sep 01 Film Chronicles Rise and Fall of Eco-Terrorist Cell Through The Eyes of a Former Member Photo by T. J. Watt On Thursday's NewsHour, we will feature an excerpt of the film "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," which looks at the radical environmental group through the transformation of… Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch Tar Sands Pipeline Plan Renews Energy vs. Environment Debate A proposed pipeline would carry oil from Canadian tar sands fields to Texas refineries, but the project has sparked high-profile protests. Jeffrey Brown discusses the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's Robert Bryce and… Continue watching
Aug 29 Proposed Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Elicits Protests Demonstrators sit down in front of the White House while protesting against a proposed pipeline that would bring tar sands oil to the U.S. from Canada on August 22, 2011. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. The proposed Keystone XL… Continue reading
Aug 26 Environment vs. Economy in 2012 Smokestacks belch out smoke at a factory; file photo In every election there are a few issues that shape the look and feel of the campaign, and even in the earliest stages of the 2012 race, one issue has… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Heat Wave, Drought Create 'Grim' Crop Yields for Farmers in Plains, South New research by the National Drought Mitigation Center shows 12 percent of U.S. land is in the midst of an exceptional drought, which is the largest contiguous area to suffer such difficult conditions in 12 years. Ray Suarez discusses how… Continue watching
Aug 01 New Widget Tracks Record-Breaking High Temperatures EMBED THIS: » View All High Temperature Records On July 22, thermometers in Newark, N.J., peaked at a staggering 108 degrees,… Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch 5 Years Later, Scientists Still Puzzled by Honeybee Decline Five years ago, honeybees began dying in large numbers and hives were becoming defunct. Spencer Michels reports on the scientists who are still trying to figure out why this is happening and what can be done to help the problem. Continue watching