The Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases are a pollutant that it can regulate under the existing Clean Air Act. And the timing of the announcement was no accident.

Before the President travels to the Copenhagen climate summit, the EPA and the White House are effectively sending...

Last week I took a look at China's offer for Copenhagen, and a few days later India laid down its own proposal. How bold is the Manmohan Singh government being?

India's basic offer is to reduce the energy intensity of its economy by 20 to 25 percent by 2020. If...

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...

Cross-posted from Truthdig.com

In Copenhagen, a major binding agreement at the global warming summit is not to be. Not this year. In Washington, the Senate is so divided that it became clear months ago that climate legislation will be pushed off until 2010 at the earliest.

Still,...

This is part of a series of brief posts on 'clean energy jobs' opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me.

Clean Energy Jobs Go Swimming: $300 million per year for 10,000 jobs

Legislation is,...

Editor's note: This guest post was written by former Vice President Al Gore for the Hopenhagen movement. 

The world has arrived at a moment of decision.

As long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 90 million tons...

World leaders will discuss global warming and environment during the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Some countries have already made headlines by highlighting their sufferings and climatic degradation. Maldives cabinet held a meeting under the waters of the Indian Ocean and Nepal's cabinet flew to the base camp of Mount...

The most vocal organizations around the University of East Anglia hacked email story (aka. "climategate") have been involved in a decade-plus campaign to delay action on climate change.

The goal of this campaign, which began around the time of the first Kyoto Protocol negotiations, was to assemble a group...

Note: As Google Earth takes world leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Summit on a virtual flyover of Coal River Mountain today, besieged residents and citizens groups from Coal River Mountain and across West Virginia and the Appalachian coalfields, along with their national allies, will hold a 2pm EST...

As we draw closer to passing a clean energy and climate law that will create millions of jobs and curb global warming, people are debating how to achieve those goals most effectively. NRDC believes the cap and trade approach is the best way to get the job done, and...

Roland Emmerich is on to something. The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, and if we don't do something BIG to really start reducing greenhouse gas emissions after that, we are screwed in a big, Emmerich-movie-like way. The UN climate conference in Copenhagen starts on December 7th. The so-called "leaders" of...

In these tough economic times many people are looking for ways to shave expenses off their budgets. One tried-and-true method is to rent instead of buy. Environmentalists have long pointed out that we can also significantly reduce our impact on the planet if we borrow the things we...

Drop the Twinkie, junkie. Just in time for the holidays come these findings from your pals at Scripps Research Institute: Junk food is addictive. Really addictive -- as addictive as heroin.

The paper, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, details what happened when lab...

I was very sad to see Paul Krugman hocking the cap and trade system in his column today. Krugs is very popular among liberals right now, namely because he has stopped screaming about the virtues of Hillary Clinton, and isn't being a total moron when it comes to...

Next week, on December 10, 2009
UNIVERSAL ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS
In Honor of the 2009 UN Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change
© Diane Perlman, PhD

As thousands from around the world gather this week in Copenhagen for the UN 2009 Climate Change Conference, we also mark the...

President Obama's commitment to reduce carbon emissions in the U.S. with China's immediate response to at least maintain or begin reduction shows signs of hope for new guidelines. The Copenhagen COP15 UN Foundation Conference on Climate Change may truly provide a foundation.

Just a few months ago, many thought...

How are these buffalo not like the others?

Unlike most buffalo that you've ever seen in your life, in roadside pens and on farms and ranches (or on your plate if you've ever ordered a bison burger), these are real bison -- genetically...

From December 7th to 18th the world's attention will focus on Copenhagen where a global warming treaty will be debated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. But attention should also be focused on less-noticed places around the world, where real cuts in greenhouse gas are taking shape, because one...

Secretly, I could live on chocolate and coffee. But don't tell anyone, since I make my living writing about vegetables. And my darkest secret is this: My favorite thing in the whole world is (or was) chicken pan drippings. This is the stuff the French call fond, though growing up...