By Dina Cappiello Associated Press June 23, 2014 Top environmental regulators for four Republican presidents told Congress on Wednesday what many Republican lawmakers won’t: Action is needed on global warming. [...]
By Jean Chemnick E&E News June 18, 2014 Four former Republican U.S. EPA administrators praised the agency's climate change rule for existing power plants today in a Senate hearing room packed with coal miners expressing fear that the proposal would strangle their industry. [...]
By Jason Plautz National Journal June 18, 2014 Cabinet members from four Republican administrations Wednesday made a plea for federal action to address climate change, citing new evidence that public opinion is shifting in favor of it. [...]
By Andrew Restuccia Politico June 18, 2014 Four Republican former EPA chiefs called on Congress on Wednesday to combat climate change, challenging GOP lawmakers’ hostility to measures that would rein in carbon pollution. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Politico May 14, 2014 This week, two teams of scientists announced that the West Antarctic ice sheet has begun collapsing, beginning what they call an “unstoppable” process that could raise sea levels by as much as 15 feet over time. “This is really happening,” Thomas P. Wagner, one of the researchers, told the New York Times. “There’s nothing to stop it now.” [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman and Ron Kirk The Hill April 25, 2014 As we recognize Earth Day this week, we are reminded that it is more than a day on the calendar, it is a turning point when Americans came together and said, “We can do better.” [...]
By Brendan T. Byrne, Thomas H. Kean, James J. Florio and Christine Todd Whitman The New York Times March 24, 2014 [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman Politico Magazine February 23, 2014 The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to address climate change. That shouldn't be a controversial statement, but in some quarters, it is. Indeed, it’s at the heart of a set of legal challenges that will be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman USA Today February 20, 2014 U.S. can reduce dangers by requiring use of safer technology and chemicals. [...]
By Michael A. Memoli LA Times January 28, 2014 WASHINGTON -- Republicans accused of waging a "war on women" attempted to send a message to the nation with the selection of Washington state Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the top woman in GOP leadership and a mother of three, to deliver the party's response Tuesday night to President Obama's State of the Union address. [...]