Environment & Energy

Our planet faces unprecedented environmental challenges, threatening ecosystems, species, coastal communities, and all too often, human life itself. Heading the list of threats is climate change, with its promise of drastic environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval. But we also face persistent problems of air and water pollution, toxic wastes, cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and other Great Waters, and protecting natural resources and wildlife.

Central to the environmental health of the nation and the planet is decreasing our dependence on energy derived from burning fossil fuels. Our continued reliance on these sources is literally endangering the planet's ability to sustain life as we know it. Yet many policymakers, with the financial and rhetorical support of energy companies bent on making a profit at the cost of the planet's health, continue to resist desperately needed reforms. Read about CPR’s work protecting the environment in reports, testimony, op-eds and more. Use the search box to narrow the list.

Tough caps would likely curb pollution and cool warming

Tough caps would likely curb pollution and cool warming, by William Buzbee and Victor Flatt

Type: Op-Eds (May 6, 2009)
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Author(s): William Buzbee, Victor Flatt
Climate bill good first step in long and arduous trip

Climate bill good first step in long and arduous trip

Type: Op-Eds (April 24, 2009)
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Author(s): William Buzbee, Victor Flatt
Protecting Public Health and the Environment by the Stroke of a Presidential Pen: Seven Executive Orders for the President's First 100 Days

Protecting Public Health and the Environment by the Stroke of a Presidential Pen: Seven Executive Orders for the President's First 100 Days, By CPR Member Scholars Rebecca M. Bratspies, David M. Driesen, Robert L. Fischman, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert L. Glicksman, Alexandra B. Klass, Catherine A. O’Neill, Sidney Shapiro, Amy Sinden, Rena Steinzor, Robert R.M. Verchick, and Wendy Wagner, and CPR Policy Analyst James Goodwin

Type: Reports (Nov. 13, 2008)
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Conservatives Flip-Flopped on Cap and Trade

Conservatives Flip-Flopped on Cap and Trade, op-ed by Robert Glicksman

Type: Op-Eds (June 28, 2008)
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Author(s): Robert Glicksman
Polar Bear Politics: Listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act won't do much good, but we should do it anyway

Polar Bear Politics: Listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act won't do much good, but we should do it anyway, op-ed by Holly Doremus in Slate

Type: Op-Eds (Jan. 7, 2008)
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Author(s): Holly Doremus
Let California Experiment

Let California Experiment, op-ed by William Buzbee

Type: Op-Eds (July 28, 2007)
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Author(s): William Buzbee
Warming to Houston as a Leader on the Environment

Warming to Houston as a Leader on the Environment, op-ed byVictor Flatt

Type: Op-Eds (April 22, 2006)
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Author(s): Victor Flatt
CPR Perspective: International Environmental Justice and Climate Change

CPR Perspective: International Environmental Justice and Climate Change. CPR's Perspectives Series is a set of monographs by CPR Member Scholars on timely and important health, safety, and environmental topics. Each Perspective provides a thumbnail sketch of the competing arguments concerning a substantive or procedural principle for developing appropriate health, safety and environmental policies, and closes with the Member Scholar-author's proposed approach to the issue.

Type: Reports (March 1, 2003)
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