Charles Koch (above) and his brother David (below) gave $49.8 million to a network of climate contrarian think tanks and advocacy groups from 2002 through 2011.

This six-part series, "Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation," documents...

ExxonMobil Chairman, President and CEO Rex Tillerson may sound more reasonable than his predecessor, but he's still funding climate contrarian think tanks. (Getty Images)

This six-part series, "Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation," documents...

This six-part series, "Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation," documents that the press routinely cites climate contrarian think tanks without reporting their ties to the fossil fuel industry. If you missed part 1, you can find it...

This six-part series, "Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation," documents that the press routinely cites climate contrarian think tanks without reporting their ties to the fossil fuel industry.

Part 1: A Glaring Lapse in Climate and...

Six months after Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast, officials from coastal communities along the Eastern seaboard sat down for the first time to discuss the hurricane's consequences and how to best protect their residents from sea level rise. The meeting, which took place...

Last Friday night, PBS talk show host Charlie Rose devoted his entire hour to ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson. Tillerson, 60, joined the oil and gas giant in 1975 as a production engineer, climbed the corporate ladder, and replaced Lee...

Neil Young, this note's for you.

Your recent Huffington Post blog reminded me of the first and only time I ever wrote about you. That was back in 1970, when I reviewed your third studio album, After the Gold Rush, for...

You can say one thing about the Koch brothers: They don't let the facts get in their way.

Of course I'm talking about Charles G. and David H. Koch (above), the billionaire owners of Koch Industries, the oil, coal and natural gas...

Just one day after the election, the Ohio-based Murray Energy coal company announced it was laying off 163 workers. Why? Company CEO Robert Murray blamed the Obama administration's "war on coal."

"The decision to lay people off was difficult and complicated," a Murray...

American voters' top concern this year, as it has been for some time, is the economy.

That's no surprise.

Climate change, on the other hand, doesn't even crack the electorate's top 10 most important issues.

That's no surprise,...

The Washington Post and New York Times picked an inopportune time to beat up on Al Gore and federal support for renewable energy.

The Post recently ran a story insinuating that Gore used his influence to steer Obama administration stimulus money to clean...

What a difference four years makes.

In 2008, during the second presidential debate--a town hall format similar to what we witnessed a few days ago--an audience member asked the two candidates: "I want to know what you would do within the first two years...

Microgrid Energy workmen install solar panels at Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Last month I wrote about how Major League Baseball is coping with climate change. As I reported, MLB is not only helping its...

On June 30, Washington Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg had his shortest outing of...

Last week I reported on the findings of a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) report linking beef consumption to deforestation and climate change. I noted that most Americans are likely aware that eating beef poses potential health risks, but...

George Will pays a lot of attention to baseball statistics. He's a rabid Cubs fan, and he's written two books on the game, including the 1990 best-seller Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball.

Unfortunately the nationally syndicated columnist doesn't show nearly the same...

The Washington Post published a provocative essay on Sunday that makes the case that hamburgers are the least patriotic food you could eat on the Fourth of July.

"Why your hamburger hates America" looks at the unsavory reality behind the production...

The Browns Ferry nuclear plant near Athens, Alabama, still does not comply with 1980 federal fire regulations that were established in response to a disastrous fire that took place there in 1975. (AP)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is playing with fire--literally....

Some spent fuel pools hold five times the amount they were originally designed to accommodate. (NRC)

Haste makes waste--unless you're talking about nuclear power.

In that case, delay makes waste--tens of thousands of tons of it.

The waste--used, or...

Former ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva testified on Capitol Hill about the "potential long-term risks associated with climate change," but his company has flip-flopped on the issue for years. (AP)

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece revealing that a...