“My name is Tom Ridge. I am a recovering politician,” he clucks as he delivers the warm-up for the dozens of speeches he gives each year. Honorable Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania (1995-2001), first assistant to the President, then US Secretary of Homeland Security (2001-20

Much like scores of political hopefuls before him, Presidential candidate Barack Obama rode to power on the campaign promise of bipartisanship.  In office, however, his attempts at finding common ground have often been less than successful.  Although the reasons why vary, both parties

It’s a chilling reality: The Arctic is particularly vulnerable to global warming. Temperatures in the ‘Ocean of Ice’ are rising twice as fast as the rest of the world. As a result, sea ice is rapidly thawing, causing no small concern to science and citizens alike. During the 2013 melt

It didn’t take long for the latest environmental mandate proposed by the Obama administration to start drawing sharply divided responses from within the US.  Amid all the debate, the shale gas industry finds itself in an enviable winner-take-all position. The Environmental Protection

That was a close one. The fracking debate in Colorado nearly moved into dangerous territory this month in the form of two highly restrictive ballot initiatives. If they had moved forward and been approved, they would have resulted in damaging legislation not only at the state level, b