The Catholic Church Must Challenge Trump on Deportations
Among Donald Trump’s most alarming, repeated and ambitious commitments as a candidate was to arrest and deport up to 12 million undocumented immigrants. Many are Mexican and have been in the United States for more than 10 years.
Now he is laying the groundwork to remove those immigrants from their homes, jobs and communities. It would be a “bloody story,” he said. One voice that has been largely absent in loudly criticizing this extreme and un-Christian plan, I am sorry to say as a Catholic, is the American Catholic Church’s.
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A better solution to climate change (The Hill)
We have a collision of inconvenient truths. The climate crisis demands our immediate action, yet to sustain ambitious policy over multiple election cycles takes some measure of bipartisan support. Read more via The Hill.
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Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is unnecessary and risky
What company could ignore the reputational risks associated with drilling in the Arctic Refuge? Read more via the Dallas News.
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Looking Back, Thinking Ahead: Perspectives on Environmental Law at 50
Speech at George Washington University School of Law that may be streamed on YouTube.
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Asbestos Kills Nearly 40,000 Americans a Year. Ban It.
The United States should follow other countries and protect its citizens from the deadly chemical, write two former E.P.A. administrators. Read more via the New York Times.
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Pa. efforts to curb Chesapeake pollution have stalled, leaving the bay at risk
This summer, the Chesapeake Bay has one of its largest dead zones in the last 30 years. And Pennsylvania pollution is a significant contributor to that problem.
One river, the Susquehanna, flowing mostly through Pennsylvania, is responsible for nearly 50 percent of the flow into the Chesapeake Bay. Frustratingly, pollution that has been entering the Susquehanna continues to flow downstream into the bay at levels that are putting the entire bay recovery at risk. The affected states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can no longer stand by and let that happen. Read more via the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Trump sure likes our clean air and water. I wonder how it got that way.
The Term "Republican Environmentalist" Is Not an Oxymoron
But today's GOP makes it seem that way—which is why George H. W. Bush's EPA director is endorsing a Democrat for Congress. Read more via Scientific American.
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Talk to Yale Sustainability Conference on International Development and Sustainable Agriculture
William K. Reilly speaks to a seminar on sustainable agriculture at the Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit.
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Automakers Shouldn't Fight Emissions Standards (OpEd, New York Times)
Public comments by leaders in the auto industry indicate that they understand the importance of the transportation sector - now the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the United States - getting it right on climate change. But the efforts of the auto industry's lobbyists in Washington tell a different story. Read more via the New York Times.
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Environmental Policy in the Era of Trump
Second Annual Adrian Fernando Memorial Lecture, Oxford University
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Why Obama is Right on Clean Energy (OpEd, New York Times)
William D. Ruckelshaus and William K. Reilly, the two Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency responsible for the Clean Air Act of 1970 and its amendments in 1990, respectively, support the Clean Power Plan.
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Negotiating a Life of Service to the World
William Reilly shares his past experiences as president of the World Wildlife Fund and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency with Stan Christensen, lecturer in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. Reilly recounts inspecting the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the possible ban of French wine in the United States and negotiating with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Organizing the Federal Government for Success
Speaking to Stanford University on Setting the Climate Agenda for the Next President.
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Reflections on the EPA and the Environment
William K. Reilly speaks to the American University School of Public Affairs.
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Turning Points: Life-Altering Choices in a 50-Year Career
Remarks by William K. Reilly to the Harvard Law School 50th Reunion - Class of 1965.
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Climate Policy and State Environmental Officials; Follow the Politics or Respect the Law?