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 at right to narrow the list.

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Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down, op-ed by Sandra Zellmer

Type: Op-Eds (July 2, 2006)
PDF: Turtles All the Way Down
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Author(s): Sandra Zellmer
Categories: Energy & Environment Energy & Environment

Exxon should just pay its penance

Exxon should just pay its penance. It wants to wriggle out of punitive damages, but those are the ones that make a difference

Type: Op-Eds (Feb. 29, 2008)
PDF: Exxon should just pay its penance: It wants to wriggle out of punitive damages, but those are the ones that make a difference
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Author(s): Alexandra Klass, Sandra Zellmer
Categories: Energy & Environment Energy & Environment

Robert R.M. Verchick's testimony on what went wrong before, during and immediately after Hurricane Katrina.

Robert R.M. Verchick's September 29, 2005, testimony before the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce on what went wrong before, during and immediately after Hurricane Katrina.

Type: Legislative Testimony (Sept. 29, 2005)
PDF: Robert R.M. Verchick's September 29, 2005 testimony before the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce on what went wrong before, during and immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
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Author(s): Robert Verchick
Tags: Katrina
Categories: Energy & Environment Energy & Environment

Robert R.M. Verchick's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on lessons from the failure of New Orleans' levees during Katrina

Robert R.M. Verchick's November 17, 2005, testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on how preliminary findings on the failure of New Orleans' levees should be incorporated into future plans for hurricane protection.

Type: Legislative Testimony (Nov. 17, 2005)
PDF: Robert R.M. Verchick's November 17, 2005 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on how preliminary findings on the failure of New Orleans' levees should be incorporated into future plans for hurricane protection.
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Author(s): Robert Verchick
Tags: Katrina
Categories: Energy & Environment Energy & Environment

Closing Agency libraries deals serious blow

Closing Agency libraries deals serious blow, op-ed by Joel Mintz

Type: Op-Eds (Dec. 11, 2006)
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Author(s): Joel Mintz, Rebecca Bratspies
Tags: clean science
Categories: Energy & Environment Energy & Environment Regulatory Policy Regulatory Policy

Unnatural Disaster: Executive Summary

Unnatural Disaster: Executive Summary, by more than a dozen Member Scholars of the Center for Progressive Reform, White Paper 513, September 2005.

Type: Reports (Sept. 4, 2005)
PDF: Unnatural Disaster: Executive Summary, by Member Scholars of the Center for Progressive Reform, White Paper 513, September 2005.
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Tags: Katrina
Categories: Energy & Environment Energy & Environment