I went to college at Syracuse University. In November of my freshman year, it snowed 18 days in a row thanks to the vaunted lake effect. Wasn't like we got huge accumulations -- only an...

Is regular coal not dirty enough for you? Meet liquid coal fuel! Destructive to mine, water-intensive to manufacture, devastating to our climate at every step of the way -- liquid coal is one of the world's dirtiest fuels. Liquid coal production emits twice as much global warming pollution as gasoline...

Rep. Joe Barton, best known for his groveling apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward at the height of the Gulf oil disaster, says the rules don't apply to him...

The people who squawk the loudest about "scientific integrity" aand "sound science" often have absolutely no problem with outright scientific fraud, as long as...

Missouri has no oil reserves and just 1.2% of US coal reserves. Meanwhile, it's a leader in clean energy, with a renewable portfolio standard requiring investor-owned utilities to increase their use of renewable sources to 15% by 2021.

An exhibit on evolution & climate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History that doesn't even mention manmade climate pollution or the...

The National Wildlife Federation Climate Capsule team's favorite summer movie was Inception. It got us to thinking, what if you could enter the dreams of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Big Oil's MVP?

(Don't worry if you haven't seen Inception yet, no spoilers. In fact, if you watch...

The National Wildlife Federation has been a leader in pressing the federal government to hold BP & other parties fully accountable for the Gulf disaster. While attention...

Could the sweltering summer of 2010 be considered mild compared to the typical summers of the future? It depends on whether America & nations around the world act now to curb our global warming pollution.

That's the conclusion of...

Since the Gulf oil gusher was capped, observed wildlife impacts have actually gotten significantly worse.

That seems counterintuitive. But it's exactly what wildlife...

With the Senate dropping the ball on climate action & global temperatures continuing to soar, this week's climate news is pretty depressing. So Dirty the Global Warming Denier Sock Puppet & I decided to break out of our studios in National Wildlife Federation headquarters this week and head...

Dr. Doug Inkley, senior scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, just returned from another trip to the Gulf Coast. As NWF has been reporting, the BP oil disaster is hurting the people who rely on healthy oyster populations from the Gulf Coast to the Chesapeake Bay.

Doug spent a...

With the popularity of LeBron James' televised special, The Decision, to announce his choice of a new team, we decided to use the same format to put Dirty the Global Warming Denying Sock Puppet on the spot.

Given that the first half of 2010 was the hottest on...

The front page of Pensacola's newspaper on Saturday proudly proclaimed the beaches of Perdido Key had been declared safe because there was no oil slick within 100 yards of shore. But 20 miles southeast of the Florida city, a National Wildlife Federation-chartered boat found the oil slick devastating wildlife.

Two National Wildlife Federation staffers called the Deepwater Horizon Response hotline yesterday to report oiled wildlife. Neither came away hopeful at getting much of a response.

The call center is located more than 400 miles away from the spill site in Houston, TX -- not coincidentally, where BP America...

Can you believe BP once would have us believe the Gulf oil gusher was only spewing 40,000 gallons a day?

Today, the Obama administration said its latest estimates show the gusher could be pumping as much as 2.4 million gallons a day into the Gulf of Mexico.

Meanwhile, Louisiana...

Remember how marine life off Louisiana appeared to be mistaking oil for habitat? Sounds like the same thing is now happening off Florida:

Ten miles off Pensacola Beach on Sunday afternoon floated what...

Dr. Doug Inkley, senior scientist at the National Wildlife Federation, has compiled startling numbers on dolphin & sea turtle strandings so far. Here's what he's found:

• The 244 endangered & threatened sea...

Chris Pulaski, a staffer with the National Wildlife Federation's Coastal Louisiana program, got the chance to get on board a helicopter on Thursday. The crew wanted to investigate BP's ridiculous claims about how few acres of wetlands have been oiled, repeated yesterday on the Taylor Marsh Show:

Pres. Obama...

Dr. Doug Inkley, certified wildlife biologist & senior scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, called me at 6:30am local time. He was heading down to Venice Marina for another long day on the water viewing the effects of the BP oil disaster, but before motoring out beyond cell service, Doug...