Beyond Recovery: Moving the Gulf Coast Toward a Sustainable Future

Center for American Progress | OxFam America / by Kate Gordon, Jeffrey Buchanan, and Phillip Singerman with Jorge Madrid and Sarah Busch http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/02/beyond_recovery.html Direct 80 percent of any fines administered through the Clean Water Act from the Deepwater Horizon disaster toward a Gulf Coast Recovery Fund Ensure economic and environmental recovery are not separated Create an … Continue reading »

Effects of Development of a Natural Gas Well and Associated Pipeline on the Natural and Scientific Resources of the Fernow Experimental Forest

USDA, Forest Service / by Mary Beth Adams, Pamela J. Edwards, W. Mark Ford, Joshua B. Johnson, Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, and Frederica Wood http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/gtr/gtr_nrs76.pdf [NRDC Switchboard posting by Amy Mall] A new report by scientists with the U.S. Forest Service documents the effects of development of a natural gas well and associated … Continue reading »

Recent Lessons from the Stimulus: Transportation Funding and Job Creation

Smart Growth America http://tinyurl.com/46yycgw [From Website] A new report from Smart Growth America analyzes states’ investments in infrastructure to determine whether they made the best use of their spending based on job creation numbers. Recent Lessons from the Stimulus: Transportation Funding and Job Creation evaluates how successful states have been in creating jobs with their … Continue reading »

Special Issue of British Royal Society Journal on Coping in a World with a Global Temperature Increase of Four Degrees+ Above Preindustrial Levels

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A : Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, Jan. 13, 2011 (vol. 369 no. 1934) http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934.toc Seven of the eleven articles (plus the preface and introduction) are free in this theme issue on adapting to a world with a global temperature increase of four degrees above preindustrial levels (2 degrees+ … Continue reading »