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The Big Lie in the Durban U.N. Climate Talks | BLOG ENTRY

The problem with the U.N. climate talks in Durban, now into their third day, is not just that the big polluters like China and the U.S. refuse to make any meaningful commitments to cut carbon pollution. ...
December 1, 2011 10:00 AM ET
Is the Keystone Pipeline Really Dead? | ARTICLE

Not since the days of George W. Bush's "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Forests" initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline. The 1,700-mile-long pipeline,...
November 23, 2011 8:00 AM ET
U.N. Climate Talks Are Dead Before They Begin | BLOG ENTRY

Next week, the nations of the world will meet in Durban, South Africa, to hash out a new treaty to cut carbon pollution. Mid-level officials from nations all over the world will arrive in black SUVs, carrying...
November 22, 2011 4:25 PM ET
Obama Mans Up on the Keystone Pipeline Decision | BLOG ENTRY

Maybe it is the threat of thousands of protestors circling the White House this weekend. Or maybe he’s sick of being pushed around by Big Oil (ha!). Or maybe he just gets it. Whatever his motive, President...
November 3, 2011 10:15 AM ET
Mitt Romney Flip-Flops on Climate Change | BLOG ENTRY

This morning Jon Huntsman hit Mitt Romney as a "perfectly lubricated weathervane," calling him on his flip-flops on Libya, the debt-ceiling, and other issues. It's a great line, and one the Romney richly deserves.Here is...
October 28, 2011 3:10 PM ET
Exxon Profits Soar: Why Big Oil Is Booming | BLOG ENTRY

So the Big Oil juggernaut rolls on. Yesterday Exxon Mobil announced profits of $10 billion, up 41 percent from a year ago. And this is despite a fall in oil production and a decline in prices. ...
October 28, 2011 10:05 AM ET
Exclusive: Interview With Jailed Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher | BLOG ENTRY

Lots of people talk about how committed they are to taking action to solve the climate crisis – but few people have as much skin in the game as Tim DeChristopher. Last July 26,...
October 19, 2011 3:30 PM ET
Australian Carbon Tax Vote: A Very Big Deal | BLOG ENTRY

So maybe there is hope for us yet. After what one Aussie columnist calls "the dirtiest and most dishonest campaign ever waged before the Australian public," with millions of dollars spent on media ads and climate skeptics...
October 13, 2011 2:33 PM ET
Steve Jobs: Rolling Stone's 2003 Interview | ARTICLE

When Steve Jobs cruises into the airy reception area on the Apple Computer campus in Cupertino, California, on a recent morning, nobody pays much attention to him, even though he's the company's CEO. He's wearing shorts, a...
October 6, 2011 2:35 PM ET
Geoengineering Goes Legit | BLOG ENTRY

In 2006, when I wrote a profile of physicist Lowell Wood for Rolling Stone, the notion that we might "geoengineer" the Earth’s climate to reduce the risk of climate change – to build what amounts to...
October 4, 2011 3:25 PM ET
Can Geoengineering Save The World? | ARTICLE

Last summer, an elite group of scientists, economists and government officials gathered at Snowmass ski resort near Aspen, Colorado, to contemplate the end of the world. The weeklong "workshop, held in the shadow of 14,000-foot-high peaks at...
October 4, 2011 2:05 PM ET
Climate Change and the End of Australia | ARTICLE

It's near midnight, and I'm holed up in a rickety hotel in Proserpine, a whistle-stop town on the northeast coast of Australia. Yasi, a Category 5 hurricane with 200-mile-per-hour winds that's already been dubbed "The Mother of...
October 3, 2011 5:43 PM ET
The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal | BLOG ENTRY

AP ran a great story yesterday about the coming decline of the coal industry in Appalachia that I fear is not going to get nearly the attention it deserves. Because if you think about this story...
September 28, 2011 12:47 PM ET
How the GOP Is Using Solyndra to Kill Clean Energy | BLOG ENTRY

Last Friday, House Republicans achieved a much-sought-after goal: to criminalize the pursuit of clean energy in America.Granted, Congress has not yet passed laws to jail entrepreneurs and engineers who dare to develop technology that will...
September 26, 2011 11:21 AM ET
Environment: Ten Things Obama Must Do | ARTICLE

When Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, he declared that future generations would remember it as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."...
September 14, 2011 9:20 AM ET
God on Bachmann's Irene 'Joke': 'I'm Disappointed in You' | BLOG ENTRY

Dear Michele:Just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how deeply disappointed I am in you this morning. Of all the candidates hoping to displace The Rationalist Compromiser from the Oval...
August 31, 2011 5:23 AM ET
NASA Scientist Hansen Arrested at Tar Sands Protest - A Grim Sign of the Times | BLOG ENTRY

In the 1970s, it was a photo of Earth from space taken by Apollo 17 that galvanized the environmental movement. The so-called "Blue Marble" photo showed earth as a lonely sphere adrift in space. To many...
August 31, 2011 5:06 AM ET
Rick Perry and the Environment: Three Things You Need to Know | BLOG ENTRY

You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican...
August 17, 2011 11:19 AM ET
Why Obama's New Fuel Rules for Trucks Are a Huge Deal | BLOG ENTRY

This afternoon, while Wall Street wobbled and England burned, President Obama announced new fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses. Despite the fact that the announcement won't get much play – efficient school buses aren't...
August 9, 2011 4:02 PM ET
An Environmental Upside to the Horrible Debt Deal? | BLOG ENTRY

With the debt-ceiling deal done, the details of who feels the most pain from the next ($1.6 trillion) round of cuts will be left up to a 12-person congressional "supercommittee," to be formed in the coming weeks....
August 5, 2011 9:55 AM ET