Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybod...
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the m...
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the...
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable...
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to pr...
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.