Can Permitting Barriers Be Overcome to Accelerate Clean Energy?
Clean energy projects can take several years to be approved in the United States. What solutions can permitting reform present?
Environmental Policy
Why Is Environmental Policy So Hard to Implement?
Why is it so difficult to achieve effective environmental policy in the United States? Is it just a lack of willpower, or is there a little more to it? On this episode of The Sweaty Penguin, we explore some of…
UNEP: The Future of the World’s Leading Climate Authority
Despite being the world’s most powerful international body on the environment, the United Nations Environment Programme is anything but powerful: monetary contributions from member countries are voluntary and enforcement of environmental treaties is non-existent. With climate change looming and UNEP…
Is New Jersey ready for climate conscious transportation policies?
What is the transportation and climate initiative, and where do states like New Jersey and New York stand on joining?
Obama’s EPA Chief on Trump, climate action, and the current EPA
Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy on inequality, corruption, and the young Americans who have had enough.
What we can do to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases
"The Federal Gov't has scaled back environmental rules and regulations that would decrease greenhouse gasses we emit into our atmosphere. What can we do to reduce energy use and greenhouse gasses? Michael Voltz, Director of Energy Efficiency and Renewables at…
Community Solutions to Climate Change
In San Antonio, Texas climate change has made summers hotter and thunderstorms stronger. City and cultural leaders are taking a progressive stance in addressing the issue. This segment is part of an ongoing public media reporting initiative called Peril and…