Brentin Mock

After a marathon week of panels and testimonies on the discussion draft of the 2009 American Clean Energy and Security Act, former Vice President Al Gore spoke this morning in hopes of summarizing all that was debated concerning the climate bill. Speaking before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Gore said the proposed legislation has […]

In following with the Supreme Court decision Massachusetts v. EPA handed down in April of 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed that greenhouse gases are air pollutants, under the Clean Air Act, that instigate climate change and thus endanger health and public welfare. Under this finding, the EPA is poised to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions […]

Survey results from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released yesterday revealed that black Protestants, white evangelicals, and Catholics are more skeptical than the average American on the causes of global warming. While 47 percent of the U.S. population believes there’s strong evidence that warming has mostly anthropogenic causes, just 34 percent of […]

The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal that global warming endangers public health and welfare cleared the White House’s review process earlier this week. Carbon-emitting industries have long feared the day when they’d finally be held accountable for their release of heat-trapping gases, and now they’re especially spooked. Bill Kovacs, vice president of environment, technology and regulatory […]

This past Friday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano was interviewed by Essence.com’s Cynthia Gordy — a member of that curiosity seen among the Washington press corps these days that’s referred to as the “Black News Media” — about progress in New Orleans’ post-Katrina recovery. It was good that Napolitano was able to step away […]

The Environmental Protection Agency released a report today examining whether there has been a fundamental shift away from suburban residential construction to urban residential. Through studying residential building permits in the 50 largest metropolitan areas, the EPA found that there have been significant shifts from the ‘burbs back to the city in over half of […]

No sooner than the minute I filed my story on Van Jones’ new appointment to the White House as advisor on green jobs did I get an e-mail from Van Jones about this very topic. It wasn’t a personal e-mail from Jones but rather an e-mail from the Green for All listserv announcing his new […]