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Gore's 10-Point Plan

David Roberts, over at Gristmill, is liveblogging the Gore hearings, and has a colorful summation of Gore's 10-point plan to stop global warming. No. 1: immediate carbon freeze! Then a program of reductions -- 90% reductions by 2050! Wow, that's ballsy. Second: reduce...

516,000 Signatures To Stop Global Warming

Al Gore's congressional testimony has just begun, and he announced he's delivering 516,000 petition signatures calling for immediate action to stop global warming. More than 200,000 of those have come in since Thursday. A forceful beginning to historic...

Distorting The Discourse

The preview to tomorrow's congressional testimony from Al Gore happened yesterday, a House committee hearing spotlighting the Bush Administration's attempts to prevent our government climate scientists from telling the truth about global warming. As Environment &...

Edwards' 'Aggressive' Energy Plan

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards today is putting forth what he is calling an “aggressive but achievable” energy plan, elements of which mirror the kind of bold energy initiative that the Apollo Alliance has been urging presidential...

Gore's Global Warming Petition Overflows

While the political lowlight of the week looks to be the ongoing fallout of the Prosecutor Purge, the political highlight is sure to come tomorrow with Al Gore's historic testimony to the House and Senate on climate change. Leading up to the hearing, Gore has been...

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