How much more rope can Rupert Murdoch afford to give Glenn Beck and his brand of race-baiting demagoguery?

Back in February, when his New York Post published a cartoon widely perceived to be a racist slur on the new president, the media grandmaster himself issued a statement of apology:

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) has been trying for the past year to get Congress to set up an independent corporation dedicated to clean coal development. He introduced the Carbon Capture and Storage Early Deployment Act (HR 6258), which provoked some hearings in 2008, but it went nowhere and died. So...

America's future climate law began working its way through Congress this week, rewritten with new details and changes that were negotiated to give the coal industry generous incentives and the regulatory certainty to compete for a place in the nation's energy future.

Here's how Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia, a...

There is a deal on the table in Washington with the potential to create a truce between two sides that have been at war for many decades. The deal takes the form of the Waxman-Markey bill -- the framework for federal climate law now moving through Congress.

While it is...

A detailed analysis released today by two environmental organizations raises a red flag on the carbon offsetting provisions of the leading climate bill now moving through Congress.

The report from International Rivers and the Rainforest Action Network calls for removing giant carbon pollution loopholes from the Waxman-Markey bill, also known...

It is a shame that the senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore, is not interested in existing economic data. He proved it once again in a opinion piece masquerading as a news story under the headline California Green Jobs Experiment Isn't Going Well.

We can...

An area of pristine boreal forest in Canada -- equivalent in size to Ireland -- has been given over recent decades to oil companies for development of the tar sands deposits there. It will be the priority item up for discussion when Prime Minister Harper meets with Barack Obama on...

There is no escaping the poisonous byproducts of coal combustion. Clean up the smokestack, you end up with solid waste that contaminates the earth; capture CO2 and liquefy it, you still have to pump it into the earth and keep it there. It's like quitting smoking and taking up chewing...

"As a matter of immediate concern, I think the U.S. legislators contemplating this bailout package should demand Bob Lutz's resignation before dribbling a single dollar into GM's leaky pockets."

-- Jim Hoggan, DeSmogBlog, 12-6-08

If everybody in America doesn't know who Bob Lutz is, they should. He's GM's denier-in-chief....

NBC Nightly News recently made media history when Brian Williams uttered these words while looking into the camera:

Coal. While you might have heard the phrase 'clean coal' during the presidential campaign, it's actually an oxymoron. Wishful thinking. Coal does not burn cleanly and it's hugely expensive to make it...

Warren Buffet and George Soros -- two of the world's wealthiest people -- are well known for their embrace of the Democratic party. Buffet endorsed Obama, and Soros bankrolled a failed effort to defeat Bush II in 2004 -- long before W. had earned his dismal approval ratings.

So what...

Last week -- on anything to do with climate and energy -- it was all California, all the time. The state emerged in full view as the nation's leading source of leadership and light on global warming solutions. The best part is that California's ascendancy is both bipartisan and global.

It's been almost a year now since Rupert Murdoch took over the Wall Street Journal, and the paper's newsroom leadership, its reporting style, its size and its look have all had a makeover. Murdoch has left its editorial page alone, however -- it's still spouting green-bashing, extremist free-market opinion --...

History says, Don't hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.

Excerpt from The Cure at Troy, by Seamus Heaney

Barack...

It's amazing what you can pick up sitting up at the right luncheon table in New York. The herb-crusted halibut and fingerling potatoes had just hit our plates and we were waiting for Boone Pickens to give the keynote at Chadbourne & Parke's Green Business Summit II at the Hilton.

Today, Florida is releasing its plan of action to address climate change, and the news is good and big.

Fifty separate policy recommendations pave the way for Florida to realize $28 billion in net economic savings between now and 2025, and to significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The report's...

A long-standing ban on the commercial development of oil shale on federal lands expired on September 30th. That means America is now on the edge of an abyss, about to take the plunge into an endless fossil future. The steady march toward this awful future of extended oil addiction is...

Phil Clapp, 54, deputy managing director of the Pew Environment Group, died yesterday in Amsterdam of complications from pneumonia, which he contracted while on vacation. Obituaries of this gentle, humorous man who was one of the environmental movement's most effective Washington insiders are running today in both the

The Republican Convention chant of "Drill, Baby, Drill!" just acquired an X-rating, with disclosure in a New York Times article that broke today detailing a wide-ranging ethics scandal at the Interior Department.

The investigation also concluded that several of the officials "frequently consumed alcohol at...

Oil Change International is a well known web site for tracking petroleum industry campaign contributions. All you need is a zip code or the name of a Congressperson and the web tool tells you the oily story: how many petroleum industry dollars flowed into your representative's campaign coffers...