Congressional Republicans spent the day trying to legislate climate change out of existence. Not by actually doing anything to address the problem, you understand, but by overturning EPA’s scientific finding that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases endanger public health and welfare. Now Senator Rockefeller says he has a kinder,...

Before heading off for the holidays it's always a good idea to prepare a strategy to keep the conversation lively at family gatherings and holiday parties. Andrew Freedman at the Capital Weather Gang got me started with his lament that climate change can be a conversation killer. That's true,...

Yesterday was the official end of the summer of 2010. I, for one, say good riddance.

The Earth is telling us something, as illustrated in this video produced by NRDC, but too many politicians in Washington aren’t listening.

The blame game began even before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the official announcement that he would not bring a comprehensive climate and energy bill to the Senate floor. Reid himself placed the blame where it primarily belongs—obstructionism by the...

President Obama hosted a bipartisan group of Senators at the White House last Tuesday to talk about the path forward on comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation. He made a strong case for passing a bill that “makes clean energy...

BP couldn’t stop the oil gusher with a junk shot of golf balls and tire shards, and Congress can’t solve the energy problems that are the root cause of the gusher with a junk shot of unenforceable goals and unfunded subsidies....

Pundits have generally given President Obama bad reviews on last week’s oval office speech, but as he often does, Jon Stewart hit the mark like no one else. Not because he was funnier (which he was) but because he put...

Last week the Senate debated—and defeated—the Murkowski resolution which would have overturned EPA’s science-based finding that global warming pollution endangers public health and the environment. During the debate, many Senators who voted for the resolution, and some who voted against...

I spent most of the day watching the Senate debate on the Murkowski resolution and I’m very happy it went down to defeat 53-47. A victory is a victory, and this one provides real momentum for passing comprehensive clean energy...

Today the National Academy of Sciences released its most comprehensive review of climate science.

Tomorrow the Senate may be asked to ignore all that sciencey stuff and vote to overturn EPA’s determination that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are...

As Senators Kerry and Lieberman prepare to release the discussion draft of their comprehensive energy and climate bill tomorrow, NRDC is launching a powerful new national TV spot, called “Change,” that makes the case for moving to clean...

Obviously an environmental disaster that graphically demonstrates the dangers of our fossil fuel dependence should make it easier to pass a comprehensive clean energy and climate bill. Well, not according to an article yesterday in Politico, which declared...

Not too long ago, BP was best known for its efforts to rebrand itself as Beyond Petroleum. Today BP is notorious because of its inability to stem the toxic tide of crude oil gushing from its ill-fated Deepwater Horizon...

On the fortieth anniversary of the first Earth Day there is much to celebrate: Our air is cleaner and our rivers no longer catch on fire. But we can’t rest on our laurels when millions of Americans still breathe...

Sen. James Inhofe, (R-OK), the Senate’s chief spokesman for climate deniers, says so many outrageous things (see his recent interview on Grist) he’s all but lost his power to surprise.

Last week, though, the Oklahoma Republican crossed a line that I find shocking, attempting to discredit scientists through innuendo and...

After 20 years of working on global warming I’m still naïve. I thought there was a chance that the controversy stirred up by the emails hacked from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit might be a short...

Minority members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) followed through on their threat to boycott the scheduled markup of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S.1733) on November 4, demanding more analysis...

A group of prominent ecologists and climate scientists have an important article coming out in the October 23 issue of Science, in which they call for "fixing a critical climate accounting error." The error is ignoring a significant...

Yesterday Congressmen Henry Waxman and Ed Markey released a "discussion draft" of the American Clean Energy and Security Act -- a comprehensive energy and climate proposal that would create good jobs, protect our security, and save our planet from...

George Will gets one thing right in "Dark Green Doomsayers" published in Sunday's Washington Post. Scientific predictions aren't always right. But ironically his suggestion that scientists systematically overstate the risk of environmental harm in general, and global warming in particular, was undermined by a news article published by...