Tag: <span>disaster</span>

American Forests At Risk: Camille Stevens-Rumann joins the National Climate Seminar

American forests are at risk. Wildfires are becoming more frequent, fire season is lasting later into the year, and fires are burning for longer. And the costs of these fires continues to mount. The Forest Service spent $2 billion fighting forest fires last year. Wildfires in Northern California alone caused $65 …

The SCC: the most important number almost no one has ever heard of.

By Karen Corey Love Canal. Chernobyl. Bhopal. Three Mile Island. Deepwater Horizon. Fukushima. Each of these is a place that has become synonymous with environmental disaster, provoking environmental regulation and concerns about large-scale environmental devastation.  Few people argue with the necessity of investing money to rehabilitate Superfund sites or radiation-contaminated zones.  But long-term, chronic environmental …