SOTU Energy Review: An All-of-the-Above Strategy
1.27.12: NNR’s Ben Pomeroy talks in depth with energy policy blogger and NNR contributor Andrew Schenkel about the election-friendly energy agenda laid down by the President in the State of the Union.
Green Scare Tactics with Eco-Horror Director Larry Fessenden
1.18.12: Film director Larry Fessenden (pictured above) boasts a prolific career scaring people. Of all the horrors he been part of, Larry may be most frightened by what’s happening in real life on planet earth. Many of his films find their terror from present day ecological and resource crises, like climate change or water shortages. When [...]
Our Look Back at 2011
12.28.11: From the debates on federal oil subsidies, the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to the fight over fracking in New York State, environmental news in 2011 mirrored the contentions and unknowns also found in the economy and the world of politics. In our year end retrospective we bring you the varied [...]
Existential Crisis at the UN Climate Change Summit
12.16.11: Climate negotiators from around the world gathered in Durban, South Africa last week to discuss how the international community might beat back global warming. Though the United Nations Framework on Climate Change summit yielded a consensus to renew the Kyoto Protocol and fund mitigation and adaptation measures in developing nations, heavy hitters like India, China [...]
Get to Know a Super Fund Site: The Gowanus Canal
Last year the Gowanus Canal was designated a Super Fund site by the Environmental Protection Agency in order to remove the chemicals, heavy metals and pollutants from what that agency called, “one of the most extensively contaminated waterways in the nation”. Producer Ben Pomeroy visited the Gowanus and the surrounding neighborhood to learn some of [...]
