What company could ignore the reputational risks associated with drilling in the Arctic Refuge? Read more via the Dallas News.
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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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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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Op Ed in the Washington Post.
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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.
Read MoreWilliam K. Reilly speaks to a seminar on sustainable agriculture at the Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit.
Read MorePublic 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.
Read MoreSecond Annual Adrian Fernando Memorial Lecture, Oxford University
Read MoreWilliam 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.
Read MoreWilliam 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.
Read MoreSpeaking to Stanford University on Setting the Climate Agenda for the Next President.
Read MoreWilliam K. Reilly speaks to the American University School of Public Affairs.
Read MoreRemarks by William K. Reilly to the Harvard Law School 50th Reunion - Class of 1965.
Read MoreRemarks by William K. Reilly to the Environmental Council of the States.
Read MoreBill Reilly, Senior Advisor at TPG, discusses the Pope's message in his environmental encyclical with Climate One and Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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