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Obama's Climate Challenge | ARTICLE

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. After promising in 2008 that his presidency...
January 17, 2013 7:00 AM ET
Forecasting Denial: Why Are TV Weathercasters Ignoring Climate Change? | ARTICLE

It's been a busy year for TV weathercasters: July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, unprecedented wildfires scorched the West, the worst drought in 50 years parched two-thirds of the...
December 5, 2012 4:30 PM ET
Next Steps: What Obama Must Do Now for the Environment | ARTICLE

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical. Yes, in his first term, he increased fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, boosted wind and solar power and finalized rules to limit...
November 28, 2012 4:20 PM ET
What President Obama Should Have Said About High Gas Prices | ARTICLE

It's somehow fitting that the only question about energy in the presidential debates so far this year came from a 52-year-old registered Republican and owner of a Long Island strip club. About 20 minutes into...
October 19, 2012 11:00 AM ET
How Big Coal Keeps America Stupid | BLOG ENTRY

The New York Times has a good piece today about the $153 million ad blitz the fossil fuel industry is running to oust President Obama. The Times points out that this is a big change from...
September 14, 2012 2:08 PM ET
Mitt Romney's Disastrous Energy Plan | ARTICLE

The smirk appeared on Mitt Romney's face near the end of his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. President Obama, he said, had "promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans" and to "heal...
September 14, 2012 10:15 AM ET
Keystone Moves North, Where Big Oil Is Losing | ARTICLE

When president Obama halted the Keystone XL pipeline last January, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper revved up an alternative scheme to deliver oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta to the international market: Sell the oil...
August 2, 2012 8:00 AM ET
James Howard Kunstler on Why Technology Won't Save Us | BLOG ENTRY

James Howard Kunstler is a novelist and critic who made his name trashing suburbia. The Geography of Nowhere, published in 1994, is a wildly entertaining rant against strip malls, fast food, and America’s "happy motoring utopia." ...
July 12, 2012 1:50 PM ET
Rep. Fred Upton Republican, Michigan | LIST ENTRY

When Upton was named chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee in December, climate activists breathed a sigh of relief. At least the two other frontrunners — Joe Barton, a longtime shill for the oil...
July 5, 2012 3:23 PM ET
Rupert Murdoch CEO, News Corporation | LIST ENTRY

No one does more to spread dangerous disinformation about global warming than Murdoch. In a year of record heat waves in Africa, freak snowstorms in America and epic flooding in Pakistan, the Fox network continued to dismiss...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Charles and David Koch CEO and Executive VP, Koch Industries | LIST ENTRY

With a combined worth of $43 billion, these two aging, archconservative brothers are America's leading funders of the climate-disinformation machine. By perpetuating the use of fossil fuels, they in turn fuel their sprawling empire of oil refineries...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Sarah Palin Retired half-term governor, Alaska | LIST ENTRY

No state suffers more from global warming than Alaska, where glaciers are already melting, methane is bubbling up through the permafrost, and animals are being forced to alter their migration patterns. Yet Palin, the host of Sarah...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Gregory Boyce CEO, Peabody Energy | LIST ENTRY

There's no better example of how capitalism profits from overheating the planet than Boyce. As head of the world's largest publicly held coal company, Boyce is the darling of Wall Street, beloved for his crisp management style,...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Tom Donahue President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce | LIST ENTRY

Donahue likes to call his organization "the voice of business." But under his leadership, the Chamber has become the voice of big polluters like ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute. "The main purpose of the Chamber," says...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Rex Tillerson CEO, ExxonMobil | LIST ENTRY

As the world's biggest carbon polluter — its oil spews an estimated 1 trillion pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere each year — ExxonMobil has the most at stake in the battle over climate legislation. In a sharp...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Ken Cuccinelli Attorney general, Virginia | LIST ENTRY

Here's a novel strategy to make sure nobody thinks too hard about the risks of global warming: Criminalize climate science. Cuccinelli, Virginia's ultraright attorney general, is using his prosecutorial power to harass and intimidate those who are...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Sen. Jay Rockefeller Democrat, West Virginia | LIST ENTRY

The senior senator from the ancestral home of Big Coal talks a good game when it comes to global warming. "I'm concerned that powerful voices continue to argue that climate change is a myth," Rockefeller declared last...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Rep. Darrell Issa Republican, California | LIST ENTRY

The new chairman of the House Oversight Committee has vowed to use his subpoena powers to "investigate" climate scientists, denouncing federal funding of their work as part of a "tsunami of opacity, waste, fraud and abuse." Insisting...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
Bjørn Lomborg Author, "Cool It" | LIST ENTRY

The Danish statistician, a self-proclaimed "skeptical environmentalist" who has spent the past decade downplaying the risks of global warming, has long been the darling of do-nothing politicians who cite his bogus numbers to justify their inaction on...
July 5, 2012 1:12 PM ET
New Anti-Fracking Film by Gasland's Josh Fox Targets Cuomo: 'Governor, What Color Will the Sky Be Over New York?' | BLOG ENTRY

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of the great state of New York, I’d like you to meet Josh Fox. As you may know, Josh, who is 39, wrote and directed a film called Gasland, which I’m sure is...
June 20, 2012 11:30 AM ET