After Jackson, EPA Faces Big Decisions On U.S. Fracking Boom

December 28, 2012 Subscribe · Forward After Jackson, EPA Faces Big Decisions On U.S. Fracking Boom By Jonathan Leff and Joshua Schneyer NEW YORK, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The past four years of U.S. environmental regulation was marked by a crackdown on emissions that angered coal miners and power companies. Over the next four, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency will have to decide whether to take on an even larger industry: Big Oil.  Continue reading... Boom Turns To Bust For Wind Industry The Worst Natural Disasters Of 2012 Senate Makes Moves On Sandy Aid Art Wolfe's Camouflage Animal Photos Capture Nature's 'Vanishing Act' Worst Natural Disasters Of 2012 (PHOTOS) Shark Tank Breaks In China, Floods Shanghai Mall (VIDEO) ROBERT WALKER 2012: A Farewell to Creatures Great (and Small) The disruption of entire eco-systems is harmful to the people who depend upon them for their economic survival. Poaching in developing countries may temporarily enrich the poachers, but posterity is inevitably impoverished. Continue reading... GABE ELSNER Fossil Fuel Front Groups on the Front Page Fossil fuel-funded front groups, commonly referred to as "think tanks" or "institutes," have been secretly influencing the media and the public on energy issues by moving pro-fossil fuel messaging. Continue reading... KARTHIKA MUTHUKUMARASWAMY Climate Model Coverage: Far From Model Journalism Rather than merely focus on their imprecise nature, the media should take some time to elaborate on the complexity of computer models and shed light on why they are imprecise, describing what we know along with what we don't know. Continue reading... CRAIG K. COMSTOCK The Dirty Secret of Climate Change Amid all the complex data and opinion about climate change, the dirty secret is quite obvious, so simple and awkward that it's rarely discussed. Continue reading... DANIEL T. BLUMSTEIN A Natural Stewardship Amendment A number of state constitutions explicitly gives legislators the responsibility for stewardship of natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Let's make a New Year's pledge to the future. Let's work towards wider adoption of this simple idea. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.