Council on Environmental Quality

In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a mining dumper truck hauls coal at Cloud Peak Energy's Spring Creek strip mine near Decker, Montana.

‘They Knew’: A new book chronicles 50 years of US govt’s failure to address the climate crisis

Climate Change

For the past 50 years, the US government has known about the problem of climate change but has continued to promote fossil fuel development and done little to avert a crisis. Lawyer James Gustave Speth chronicles this failure in his new book, “They Knew: The US Federal Government’s 50-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis.”

President Obama’s green report card

Environment
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Clinton Shuffels Environmental Council

The White House & the Sea

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