View image | gettyimages.com Posted by guest-blogger Amanda Teuscher The past couple weeks have been a bit of a mixed bag in the debate about climate change and environmental policy. On April 1, Governor Jerry Brown imposed water restrictions on California for the first time-a 25 percent usage reduction meant to alleviate the state’s historic […]
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The Inequality of Water
Posted by guest-blogger Sam Ross-Brown. Late last month, the City of Baltimore began notifying thousands of residents that their water may soon be shut off due to lack of payment. As Sarah Lazare reports for Common Dreams, residents owing more than $250 in payments going back at least six months were notified that they had […]
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Brewing Human Rights Crisis in Baltimore as City Threatens Mass Water Shutoffs
Residents warn move is part of global trend towards the ‘commodification of our basic needs.’
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Photo of the Day, Parched California Edition
View image | gettyimages.com This is Lake Oroville in California; the top photo was taken in 2011, and the bottom photo is from a few months ago. Maybe Jim Inhofe could send them one of his snowballs.
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U.S. Pipeline Industry Quietly Building Network That ‘Dwarfs Keystone’
One pipeline is nothing compare to what’s in store.
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Sharing the Wealth
Why can’t we broadly distribute the wealth produced from America’s common resource pool? Conservative Alaska manages to do it.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Markets, States, and the Green Transition
To get renewable energy technologies into broad use, government needs to promote both supply and demand. Markets are too risk-averse.
Posted inAmerica and the World
How to Sabotage Iran Negotiations in the Name of Avoiding War
Israel and AIPAC are using Congress to push their own agenda of increasing sanctions on Iran and reducing presidential authority.
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Why Markets Can’t Price the Priceless
It takes government planning to promote the rational conservation and use of water.
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Christie Blusters His Way Through CPAC Appearance
Posted by guest-blogger Rachel M. Cohen. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wasn’t going to let something like record-low approval ratings get him down as he took the stage Thursday afternoon at CPAC’s annual gathering in National Harbor, Maryland. Exuding that Sopranos-style confidence that’s earned him notoriety, Christie, sitting on the CPAC stage for an interview […]
