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President Obama spoke to the need for a persistent and committed effort during a speech after the ratification of the agreement, “If we follow through with our commitments this agreement embodies, history will judge it as a turning point for our planet.”

Flying is in no sense easy on the earth’s climate. According to GreenSkies, an alliance of organizations and citizens concerned with aviation’s environmental effects, one flight from Europe to New York generates the same quantity of carbon dioxide emissions as the quantity emitted from heating and providing electricity for an European home for an entire year.

This past Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan’s legality was discussed in oral arguments at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Court. It is up to this court to decide if the plan infringes on the rights of states and industries to emit carbon dioxide.

We need to start recycling what we have already produced, and reuse what we have already wasted. Biofuels can and should be part of the solution.

This could signify a vital step towards advancing a more resilient and modern electric grid.

Although recent events have kept the environment present in politics, it has not become the focus of either Presidential campaign.

Climate change likely has direct role in proliferating natural disasters, making climate change adaption all the more important. By not adapting, we would be hurting ourselves in a two-jab punch, not only by disrupting natural systems, but also by putting ourselves directly in harm’s way.

Less than a year since the Obama administration blocked the Keystone Pipeline, environmentalists are battling what many consider to be Keystone 2.0