Current use valuation programs can encourage landowners to resist development pressures and leave forest as forest.

Despite their benefits to national economies, reefs around the world are at risk, including in the United States.

Offers six principles of smart energy policy for developing countries

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p>In its final report on America’s Climate Choices, the National Research Council asserts that there is a “pressing need for substantial action” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. The report, written at the request of Congress (P.L.

Manish Bapna, current managing director, to serve as acting president beginning July 2011

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2011 edition of The Environmental Forum (www.eli.org), and is reposted with permission.

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p>In two legal challenges filed in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, a number of states and non-governmental organizations sought to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate new and existing power plants under section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

WRI’s response to the Bingaman-Murkowski White Paper on the design of a clean energy standard in the United States.

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p>While the Senate recently defeated four bills or amendments that would restrict EPA’s authority, it remains to be seen if additional anti-EPA bills will be introduced in the U.S. Congress or in state governments.

S.699 authorizes the Department of Energy to conduct a program to demonstrate commercial application of integrated geologic storage projects, and provides a framework for selection criteria for these demonstrations. Importantly, the bill addresses the long term-stewardship challenges associated with demonstration, including site closure requirements and liability protection.