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Feds Close Massey Mine for 'Egregious' Safety Lapses | BLOG ENTRY

Notorious coal baron Don Blankenship was supposed to be long gone now, partying with his pals on the French Riviera or, according to a lawyer friend of mine in West Virginia, making himself comfortable in a new...
May 4, 2011 2:49 PM ET
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Answer to Climate Change: Start Prayin' | BLOG ENTRY

Wild weather is once again upon us. Tornadoes have ravaged the midwest and the south (nearly 200 people have been killed in five states as of this morning). Meanwhile, Texas is suffering from the state's worst drought...
April 28, 2011 10:43 AM ET
America’s Nuclear Nightmare | ARTICLE

Five days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, triggering the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, America's leading nuclear regulator came before Congress bearing good news: Don't worry, it can't happen here. In the...
April 27, 2011 9:00 AM ET
The Gulf Oil Spill: One Year Later, 'Nothing Fundamentally Has Changed' | BLOG ENTRY

A year ago, when I visited the Gulf to report on the Deepwater Horizon blowout, it seemed like the catastrophe America needed to wake up to the ongoing insanity of our addiction to oil and the...
April 19, 2011 11:55 AM ET
The Ethanol Scam | ARTICLE

The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn't that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after "solutions" that will make...
March 23, 2011 4:32 PM ET
Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview | ARTICLE

January 17, 2011 3:35 PM ET
Q&A: Bill Gates on How to Stop Global Warming | ARTICLE

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a...
December 9, 2010 11:05 AM ET
The Dark Lord of Coal Country | ARTICLE

On Friday, December 3rd, a week after this article was published in Rolling Stone, Massey Energy announced that Don Blankenship will be retiring as CEO and chairman. “After almost three decades at Massey, it’s time for me...
November 29, 2010 12:00 PM ET
The Poisoning | ARTICLE

On July 15th, just as this article was going to press, BP lowered a 75-ton cap over the damaged wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico and closed — at least temporarily — the gushing hellmouth...
July 21, 2010 8:00 AM ET
Coal's Toxic Sludge | ARTICLE

Big Coal has spent millions of dollars over the past year touting the virtues of what the industry calls "clean coal," but it's no secret that coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel. When you burn...
March 17, 2010 4:28 PM ET
As the World Burns | ARTICLE

This was supposed to be the transformative moment on global warming, the tipping point when America proved to the world that capitalism has a conscience, that we take the fate of the planet seriously. According to...
January 6, 2010 10:14 PM ET