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The Progressive Wedge by Bernie Horn, | January 20, 2006
If liberals want to win in 2006, the focus must be on fair economic policies, framed to put conservatives on the defensive. read more »Our Singular Challenge by Bill McKibben, grist.org | January 18, 2006
It's time for enviros to understand that the enormity of global warming means everything else is secondary. read more »The Earth Has A Fever by James Lovelock, comment.independent.co.uk | January 17, 2006
Darwin didn't realize 150 years ago that life and the environment evolved together. Now we're learning the hard way. read more »China And India Change The Game by Patrick Doherty, OurFuture.org | January 13, 2006
What better to shake Washington out of its strategic tunnel vision than a new alliance over oil between the world's two most populous countries? An article that appeared last night in the Financial Times states that, "China and In read more »Oil, Gas And Imperialism by Daniel Litvin, The Guardian | January 4, 2006
In the future, oil and gas will be replaced by renewables. But for now, energy imperialism is the driver of global politics. read more »The Unfriendly Skies by Frank O'Donnell, | December 20, 2005
Today, the EPA unveils regulations that will shield the power industry from air pollution cleanup—again. read more »Warming Globally, Acting Locally by Scott Paul and Samuel Stein, | December 16, 2005
The Bush administration's intransigence on climate change has inspired a mutiny of mayors. read more »Polluter Playtime by Frank O'Donnell, | December 2, 2005
Sure, the Bush administration enforces clear air laws—when they don't trouble big polluters. read more »Appalachia's Beheading by Francis X. Clines, The New York Times | November 7, 2005
In four years, Bush's actions to expedite mountaintop removal coal mining will devastate an area the size of Delaware. read more »Energy Intelligence? by George Monbiot, | September 28, 2005
The debate on the quantity of the world's remaining oil is littered with assumptions and outright fabrications. read more »
The Latest
Dumping Solar: Study Sheds Light on US-China Solar PV Trade Flows, cleantechnica.com | February 14, 2012
Mitsubishi Unveils Solar-Powered Vehicle Charging Station, cleantechnica.com | July 26, 2011
The reality of a standalone fueling station along the highway, not dependent on an energy supply chain reaching over the world into the bowels of a Saudi oilfield is almost here. more »Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium, telegraph.co.uk | June 22, 2011
US technological lead abandoned in the sixties because it didn't produce enough plutonium for nuclear bombs.
A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium. more »
Solar Powered Wheelchair Sets World Records, alternative-energy-news.info | January 26, 2011
In a sometimes cynical world there is something just so inspiring about the journey Haidar Taleb, a 47 year old man from UAE, m more »Huge Solar-Plant Project Approved, The Wall Street Journal | October 26, 2010
A proposal to build the world's biggest solar-thermal power plant in the Southern California desert got the go-ahead Monday from the Obama administration, which used the announcement to bolster its message that renewable energy creates jobs. more »
Climate Regulations Coming for Trucks, Buses, Politico | October 22, 2010
China Plans to Reduce Its Exports of Minerals , The New York Times | October 19, 2010
Time Right to Resume Deepwater Drilling, CNN | October 19, 2010
Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lifted the moratorium on deepwater drilling almost two months before it was set to expire. It was the right decision at the right time, because developments over the last three months, including new rules and regulations, will make deepwater drilling far safer than it was before.
Governors Races: Losing The Western Climate Initiative, wonkroom.thinkprogress.org | October 19, 2010
The Western Climate Initiative — a regional cap-and-trade compact between California, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Montana and four Canadian provinces — was established in 2007 and scheduled to go into effect in 2012. There are governors’ races in all the states except Montana and Washington. more »
In Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy, The New York Times | October 19, 2010
Residents of this deeply conservative city do not put much stock in scientific predictions of climate change. “Don’t mention global warming,” warned Nancy Jackson, chairwoman of the Climate and Energy Project, a small nonprofit group that aims to get people to rein in the fossil fuel emissions that contribute to climate change. “And don’t mention Al Gore. more »
