Harry Reid spoke bluntly on energy issues the other day.

Looking the Faux and Balanced cameras square on, he spoke truth:

Coal makes us sick ...

This is an important statement.

Reid is speaking truth to an audience that isn't used to hearing it.

Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies. Fascinating... exciting... even hope inspiring at times. And, as well, as the passion builds, so many of these are truly Energy COOL.

This is a somewhat different...

Across the world, people are passing around with great excitement the news that there might be a bug that will create oil. And, not just bio-derived oil, but carbon-negative oil. One little bug, too small for the naked eye to see, and all our problems are solved!

Worried about...

Last month, to far (FAR) less attention than it merited, the House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act with $20 billion for greening public schools across the nation.

Taking aggressive action to green schools is about one of the...

It was just back in February when an intrepid reporter, Peter Maer of CBS Radio, asked George W. Bush about the potential for $4/gallon gasoline.

Response:

Near blank stare ...with seeming confusion.

Maer of CBS News Radio asked: "What's your advice to the...

Truth be told, the title isn't an exact quote, but it isn't far off.

Yesterday on Fox News, anchor Shep Smith was recounting the story of a man in Pennsylvania who was stuck in a port-a-potty. According to the York Daily Record (PA), the man was "drunk,...

It had seemed that ABEC had bit the dust, having been transformed into ACCCE. But, it seems that obituary might have been a bit too soon as my in-box just was filled with truthiness and deception from the astroturfing Americans for Balanced Energy Choices. Let's take a brief...

Now it is quite clear why the We campaign so enthusiastically embraced Newt Gingrich for an advertisement sitting next to Nancy Pelosi. Yes, Newt Gingrich is working for "American Solutions for Winning the Future." We would think that might actually include thinking seriously about moving forward on Global...

Every Progressive should recognize and incorporate, deep in their soul, the plain fact: Peak and Global Warming are the most serious threats to Progressive ideals, concepts, policies, and aspirations through the 21st century ... AND today.

These are not just let's...

Not everything is the Bush White House's fault.

Not everything.

In this case, not fully their fault, but this contrast is too striking to go without comment.

Laura Bush on Cyclone Nagris and ...

Last week, the White House sent Laura...

The latest news suggests that the Lieberman-Warner Coal Subsidy Act (also known as the Climate InSecurity Act, CISA) has moved from critical condition to the morgue. As it will require 60 votes to get past any threatened filibuster (not that the Senate Democratic Party leadership could...

Montgomery County, Maryland, is moving toward a stronger building code, with requirements for new homes to meet the Energy Star home building parameters. This is the type of measure rapidly implementable across the country to help foster the move toward a more sensible building infrastructure such as envisioned...

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton directly challenged Congressional members to go on the record either for her idiocy of a gas tax moratorium or against it (supposedly, therefore, for oil companies). Coloradan Senate candidate Mark Udall responded forcefully.

Senator Clinton claimed yesterday that I either stand with her on this...

How should environmental organizations and prominent "environmental" politicians speak to supporters when it comes to environmental issues and when it comes to the Lieberman-Warner Climate (In)Security Act? This is a serious issue that can get some blood boiling. Privately, some have sent complaints that Plumbing Lieberman-Warner's Shortfalls Doesn't...

There is a debate, subdued at times, between various approaches toward changing the planet to the better. In many ways, my viewpoint (on the optimist side) tends toward the 'enviro-capitalist', thinking that we can work to structure the economy to make the right choice, the easy (and preferred) choice....

The McCain campaign realizes that they are in trouble, that it is critical for McSame McCain to blur the realities of McFlip, McFlop, McSame McCain to try to create appearance of quite substantive differences between himself and George W. Bush, to blur the reality that across issue after...

The Washington Post featured a local high school's green renovation in Titans of Ecology, which began

At the brand-new T.C. Williams High in Alexandria, a modern "green" school, students say the environmentally friendly design has led to a serious lifestyle change: They can't doze in class anymore because...

Joe Lockhart posted A Climate of Opportunity earlier today. In it, he praises the Lieberman-Warner American Climate Security Act (more accurately known as the Coal Subsidy Act) and calls on Democratic Party politicians to unify behind it, asserting that: "Lieberman-Warner presents a smart and effective means to fight...