Admittedly, January is an odd time for an article on air conditioning for a publication whose readership is mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. Makes sense though for those in Australia where you have probably become a carbon cinder in the last few days. But this...
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The California Senate has rejected a fracking bill that seems like common sense: Under Pavley's bill, oil companies would be required to give 30 days notice to land owners whose.
Eric Lipton's feature on the decline of coal in Kentucky is interesting, though flawed. He tells a heartbreaking story for these coal miners, helping us understand just how deeply people.
Glenn Hurowitz has an important piece at Think Progress noting that Obama's decision on whether palm oil should be included in the Renewable Fuel Standard will be the most important decision he makes on climate change this year. He's probably right and I absolutely oppose...
I maintain that rising gas prices are the biggest threat to Obama's reelection. New polling by the Washington Post suggests this is probably correct. I do think that, no matter.
A report released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources links earthquakes in the Youngstown area to fracking. Fracking supporters continue to talk of the practice as safe, but the.
Good Washington Post piece on the dilemma Ohio faces over fracking. People really want jobs. Cities like Canton, Youngstown, and Toledo are suffering. Long-term deindustrialization exacerbated by factory closures since 2007 have sent the area into a deep depression, as much psychological as economic. Ohioans...
The Texas Railroad Commission, for reasons that I assume have to do with keeping an antiquated state agency relevant, regulates energy policy for the Lone Star State. The TRC met.
I have a piece out today at Alternet detailing the struggle to protect some of the United States' most beautiful and unique landscapes from the scourge of dirty energy production..
Leo Hickman has a nice little piece of investigative journalism in the Guardian about how a right-wing climate myth gets born and spread. In short, a scientist working on whether wind farms might affect localized weather (within 300 meters), gets published. He suggests it might....
Josh Fox, the maker of the documentary Gasland and whom one might call today's Ida Tarbell, was arrested today at the order of House Republicans during a hearing of the.
If there's one thing more frustrating to environmentalists than the reluctance of the government to subsidize clean energy production, I don't know what it is. Not only is it central.