Generations from now, long after the last Twitter follower has unfriended the last Facebook user, this decade will be remembered and felt for its impact on Nature: the species that were saved and those that were lost; the heating of the planet; the forests cut down and those that continue...

Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks’s article this morning presents himself as Obama’s wannabe political consigliere, dispensing advice on how he can emerge from the malaise and growing unpopularity that has beset his administration.

Brooks’s advice now is basically the same that it’s always been: if you...

The New York Times' Andy Revkin has a blockbuster story showing that the Global Climate Coalition, the main industry group that spent much of the 1990's seeking to sow doubt in journalists' and politicians' minds about the reality of climate change, knew all along that it...

60 Minutes had an extraordinary piece by Bob Simon last night on how U.S. poison manufacturer FMC is exporting Furadan (banned in Europe and strictly controlled in the United States) to Kenya, where it's being used to poison lions - leading to an 85 percent drop in their population:

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank, has announced it is holding a counter-protest to the Capitol Climate Action, the biggest civil disobedience on climate issues in U.S. history. They're calling it the "Celebrate Coal! and Keep Energy Affordable" rally.

A better name might be the "Celebrate 24,000...

Washington needs to get ready for Meg Imholt.

According to Glenn Beck, she's part of a modern day "Hitler Youth" of young climate activists. According to Luke Popovich, the chief spokesman for the National Mining Association, as a clean energy advocate, she's one of the...

It was not so long ago that the coal industry could just issue propaganda without reference to coal's problems. Coal was "reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean" and it powered green, useful things like Washington, DC's Metro system.

So imagine my glee when I woke up this morning and pulled...

Last week, I wrote here about how the State of Virginia could be poised to take significant action to bolster the economy and help the climate by passing an energy efficiency bill...

We're finally starting to move beyond the era of fossil fuels. According to a new study that my colleagues and I at Greenpeace commissioned from the prestigious consulting firm ICF International, the energy portions of the economic recovery package proposed by President Obama could reduce U.S. carbon...

While the Senate is debating whether or not to give people cash in exchange for buying a Hummer, the State of Virginia could be poised to take significant action to bolster the economy and help the climate by passing an energy efficiency bill introduced by State Senator...

Even as it begs for a big taxpayer bailout, GM is still spending billions on marketing, peddling its giant gas-guzzlers to Americans who want them less and less.

It's even got the cash to try and enlist college students in its efforts to greenwash. My intern, Meg Imholt, is...

For a generation, Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign was cited as an example of how not to run for the White House as a Democrat: not only did Mondale run on a liberal platform, he even went so far as to promise to raise Americans' taxes, a promise that was...

In an article in today's New York Times, unnamed Obama advisers float a Tom Daschle trial balloon for Chief of Staff in an Obama administration; he's already been widely mentioned for other senior policy positions.

Appointing Daschle, who pulls in around a million dollars a year as...

The fundamental reason Obama had a hard time looking tough, passionate, and principled during the presidential debate, is that too often, this was a debate fought on conservative frames: who was more for oil drilling, more for coal, more for nuclear; who's for lower taxes; who's for a bigger military....

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As if the Wall Street bailout couldn't get more obscene, Wall Street executives are now lobbying for huge fees from the government to manage some of the assets they're selling to the government; in other words, the taxpayer will take the...

You've got to hand it to Joe Lieberman. He has totally absorbed the "How to Be a Republican" training. For one thing, he seems to have learned a core GOP insight of which most Democrats remain ignorant: that for the overwhelming majority of voters, a candidate's character is far more...

Of course, Sarah Palin's no animal lover. She's put extraordinary effort into undoing federal wildlife protections for polar bears, beluga whales, and pretty much any other animal that gets in the way of the oil industry's plans.

But her wolf bounty really takes the cake for animal cruelty....

Tuesday night, we heard how great Hillary was, how much she's struggled for women, we heard how important health care is and how important breaking barriers is. But we didn't hear anything about what kind of person Barack Obama is and what kind of president (or Commander in Chief) he...

Virginia governor Tim Kaine had a tough task at his town hall meeting in Manassas in the Washington, DC, exurbs this weekend, where he was, in part, trying to prove to Obama that he could be an effective vice presidential candidate. Not only had he just said he favored so-called...

I have the reputation of being something of a Hillary-hater. It's understandable: the PAC I founded, Democratic Courage, ran the first anti-Hillary ad of the primaries. But for all my very public opposition to Hillary's presidential candidacy, the vice presidential picks being floated...