There's a reason that corporations love state regulators and state politicians--they can easily buy them for cheap. Such is the politics of the New Gilded Age, when politicians are as openly for sale as they were in the first Gilded Age. The energy industry is...
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What does Republican control of both houses of Congress mean? Many things of course. But one of them might be yet another push to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage.
In order to save Mary Landrieu's job, which will not work, some Senate Democrats are pushing for a vote to pass the Keystone XL Pipeline. Landrieu is throwing a Hail.
An interesting photographic exhibit of life in Fort McMurray, Alberta, a city completely dedicated to an extraordinarily dirty form of energy. Surprisingly diverse populace, I must say. I have trouble seeing all those Muslims in western North Dakota. See also this sketch comic based upon...
The Bush family legacy is still very much evolving. Denton, Texas, a town I know very well because my brother lived there for 10 years, has developed into something of.
Oh fracking. You are so great with your cheap gas prices and profits for fossil fuel companies. Let's just keep going full bore into this technology without adequate research on.
Plumer has a good rundown of the complexity of dam building around the world. The world's rapidly growing demand for energy means that every way we can turn the natural world into power is going to be considered. Given how many of those methods of...
Last week, I gave a talk at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, titled "Resistance in the Pennsylvania Coal Country: Past and Present," although in reality, I talked more broadly about Appalachia.
When your solar panels burn so hot that the birds flying over them burst into flames, your energy plans have problems. As I've said before, all forms of energy are.
Coal billionaires are the best people: Coal mines owned by billionaire James Justice II have been cited for more than 250 environmental violations in five states with unpaid penalties worth about $2 million, according to sources and records obtained by Greenwire. Violation notices -- including...
Seals have far surpassed Americans in their support for offshore wind energy: The scientists observed eleven harbor seals outfitted with GPS tracking tags in the North Sea frequenting two active.
My dismay toward President Obama's decisions to open the ocean off the east coast to oil drilling cannot be overstated. This is a terrible decision that is in line with.