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Poseidon Lost

We thought the sea was infinite and inexhaustible. It is not. Calling for a new vision to save our oceans. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Keith Schneider
Growing Pains: Scenes from the North Dakota Drilling Boom
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May 21, 2012: The transition from small town to boomtown is rarely a smooth one, and as the oil and gas business thrives in North Dakota, so do environmental and social problems.
Across America, the Fossil Fuel Industry Digs In for a Massive Expansion
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July 12, 2011: A new energy boom is transforming U.S. communities and landscapes as oil and gas companies spend close to $100 billion in the hunt for dirtier and more dangerous sources of fuel. Economically depressed towns such as Wellsville, Ohio, are happy to let them. First in an occasional series.
Tar Sands Pipelines Pose Serious Risks
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February 16, 2011: A new report highlights the difficulties and dangers associated with transporting dirty tar sands oil via pipeline from Alberta to distant points in the U.S.
Memo to Hu and Obama: Water and Energy Choke Points Merit Time at the China-U.S. Summit
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January 18, 2011: Washington’s foreign policy community is all aflutter anticipating the meaning and outcome of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s three-day summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, which starts today. But while the two heads of... read more >
Cancun Climate Negotiators No Match For New Energy Alliances
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November 22, 2010: On November 29 representatives from 190 countries will be in Cancun, Mexico for the 16th Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Late last week, following a two-day Major... read more >
John Adams Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
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November 19, 2010: Congratulations are in order for John H. Adams, the co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who this week was named one of the 15 recipients this year of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest... read more >
China’s Climate Emissions Are Global Issue, But Water Scarcity Is Greater Domestic Priority
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October 11, 2010: TIANJIN, China—This industrious nation’s allegiance to massive-scale construction projects is as familiar to the world as the 2,500-year-old, 5,500-mile Great Wall of China, and as imposing as the wide moats and towering red... read more >
Talk of Tianjin Climate Conference: China and U.S. Are Electrifying the Car
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October 11, 2010: TIANJIN, China -- Whatever the differences that irked delegates from China and the United States during the six days of climate negotiations that ended here on Saturday, divisions principally defined by how each would... read more >
China, U.S. Cooperate in Race To Deploy Advanced Coal Technology
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October 8, 2010: TIANJIN, China -- Though Chinese workers this week celebrated the 61st anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, a holiday season as significant as July 4 in the United States, a swarm of construction... read more >
In Tianjin, China and the U.S. Similarities Overshadow Differences
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October 6, 2010: Keith Schneider is in Tianjin, China, for the U.N. Conference on Climate Change this week. See all of his dispatches here.On opposite sides of the Pacific, leaders of the world’s two biggest economies and carbon polluters... read more >
China’s First U.N. Climate Conference Explores Urgency, Stirs Fresh Hope For Climate Progress
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October 5, 2010: Keith Schneider is in Tianjin, China, for the U.N. Conference on Climate Change this week. See all of his dispatches here.In a gesture that signaled more urgent engagement to cool the planet, the United Nation’s chief... read more >
Keith Schneider
Keith Schneider, a former national correspondent and regular contributor to the New York Times, is senior editor of Circle of Blue. He contributes to Yale Environment 360, Grist, and the Energy Collective and writes his ModeShift blog about energy, transportation, climate,... More
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