The Atlantic Ocean Has Its First National Marine Monument
"President Obama announced the creation of the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean," according to Tovia Smuth.Publication Date: Thu, 09/15/2016
View ArticleClean Power Plan Showdown in U.S. Appeals Court on Tuesday
Last February, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of 29 states and state agencies who had requested a stay of the president's Publication Date: Tue, 09/27/2016
View ArticlePlanetizen Week in Review: September 30, 2016
The headline for this edition of the Planetizen Week in Review could read in double bold type: President Obama's a YIMBY. But it's unclear if it even matters.Publication Date: Thu, 09/29/2016
View ArticleParis Climate Accord Will Take Effect November 4
"Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Malta - European Union nations which have completed domestic ratification and account for about four percent of emissions - formally signed up on...
View ArticleIs Texas Ready for the Clean Energy Rule?
Tom Benning provides feature length coverage of the complicated role of Texas "in the ongoing debate over President Barack Obama’s signature proposal to cut power plants’ carbon dioxide...
View ArticlePresident Obama Enacts Permanent Drilling Ban Along Arctic and Atlantic Coasts
"Tuesday’s announcement would ban drilling in about 98 percent of federally owned Arctic waters, or about 115 million acres, a pristine region home to endangered species including polar bears and...
View ArticleGrading Obama's Urban Policy Legacy
"In 2008, Barack Obama ran for the presidency on a message of hope. And urban America felt it," according to an article by Tanvi Misra.Publication Date: Mon, 12/26/2016
View ArticleEPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Could Weaken California's Efforts to Fight Climate...
California air quality regulators have relied on "a waiver of the preemption which prohibits states from enacting emission standards for new motor vehicles,"permitPublication Date: Wed, 01/18/2017
View ArticleTrump Reverses Obama's Rejections of Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines
At a signing ceremony on Tuesday, President Trump reversed former President Obama's rejection of the controversial Publication Date: Tue, 01/24/2017
View ArticleRevoking a National Monument Not Easy, Even with Republican Congress
Former President Barack Obama designated the 1.35 million-acre Publication Date: Sun, 02/05/2017
View ArticleThe Environmental Regulation Overturned by the New Interior Secretary on Day One
For the equestrians who follow Planetizen, as reported by Juliet Eilperin for The Washington Post:Publication Date: Thu, 03/02/2017
View ArticleTrump Open to Hiking Gas Tax to Fund Infrastructure Package
When the issue of raising gas taxes arose at the start of the previous administration, President Obama made it clear that he would oppose raising the 18.4 cent per gallon federal gas tax, not increased...
View ArticleRebuilding Houston After Harvey: 'Bigger and Better'
Houston may be rebuilt bigger, but Trump himself made the job of rebuilding better much more difficult due to his rush to rollback all those 'bPublication Date: Tue, 08/29/2017
View ArticleHomeland Security Advisor Recognizes Effects of Climate Change, Ignores Causes
Thanks to a reporter who asked the obvious but rare question of how climate change relates to two devastating Category 4 hurricanes in less than two weeks, we Publication Date: Tue, 09/12/2017
View ArticleFormer President Barack Obama Addresses Gentrification
The Obama Administration often failed to live up to the hopes of those who hoped a president from Chicago would prioritize the needs of cities at an unprecedented level, and since he left office,...
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