Bill McKibben pulls it all together today in his Washington Post essay explaining what's at stake if President Obama sticks to his decision to let the coming climate meeting in Cophenhagen fail.

Try to re-imagine World War II in this context. Just before the invasion of Normandy, General Eisenhower...

The announcement by President Obama that the US would not seek a comprehensive climate deal at an upcoming global meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark next month is a gut punch to anyone who cares about the fate of the planet. A reading this past weekend of the elite press on this...

This is Greenpeace's message to President Obama today, while he meets at the G-8 summit, showing him the kind of historical moment he has in his hand, if only he will lead on global warming: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/

Last Laugh of the Financial Elites

Wall Street boomed yesterday, apparently driven by institutional investors who have been given the deal of their lifetimes by Treasury Secretary Geithner. Big investors will be able to buy toxic assets, created by the banks and AIG, with a 93% subsidy from the same...

Some of the biggest polluters in the country sent a promising signal a few months back when they came together as the US Climate Action Partnership with a unified proposal to solve climate change. While it was weaker than scientists say it needs to be, and loose on just how...

This is the story of how a plan to save the climate and jump start the economy will become a massive corporate welfare program if Congressional Democrats oppose their president and align with the likes of Joe Lieberman and the big business lobby.

We know that to avoid catastrophic...

The challenges facing President Obama at the beginning of his term have been compared with challenges President Lincoln faced at the outset of the Civil War. Both were confronted with a nation divided between the desire to continue the ways of the past and the inevitable realities of the modern...