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U.S. Charged With Stonewalling Climate Negotiations

U.S. Charged With Stonewalling Climate Negotiations

Tom Zeller Jr.  11.30.2011
In a sharply-worded letter sent to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Tuesday, a coalition of environmental and climate-action groups...
Keystone XL: A 'Game of Hot Potato'?

Keystone XL: A 'Game of Hot Potato'?

Tom Zeller Jr.  11.14.2011
When the State Department moved Thursday to postpone a decision on whether the Keystone XL oil pipeline serves the national interests of...
Researcher Navigates The Volatile Line Between Climate Science And Climate Skepticism

Researcher Navigates The Volatile Line Between Climate Science And Climate Skepticism

Tom Zeller Jr.  11. 3.2011
Though by no means a climate change denier, Richard Muller, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose work in nuclear...
Against Climate Skepticism And Energy Policy Paralysis, What's An Environmental Activist To Do?

Against Climate Skepticism And Energy Policy Paralysis, What's An Environmental Activist To Do?

Tom Zeller Jr.  10.29.2011
It's been more than 40 years since the first Earth Day and the founding of the modern environmental movement -- an awakening to the notion...
Republican Environmental Group Seeks To Put Conservation Back On The Conservative Agenda

Republican Environmental Group Seeks To Put Conservation Back On The Conservative Agenda

Tom Zeller Jr.  10.20.2011
Rob Sisson, the president of the group Republicans for Environmental Protection, walks something of a lonely road these days. His group,...
Mark Ruffalo: It's Time To Move On From Fracking And Fossil Fuels

Mark Ruffalo: It's Time To Move On From Fracking And Fossil Fuels

Tom Zeller Jr.  10.11.2011
The debate over natural gas development and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- the process of injecting huge volumes of water, sand and...
Solyndra And Keystone XL: Partisan Politics And Energy In America

Solyndra And Keystone XL: Partisan Politics And Energy In America

Tom Zeller Jr.  10. 7.2011
Something is backwards here. With gleeful relish, Republicans in Congress have seized on the story of Solyndra, the California solar...
The Solyndra Scandal: Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing

The Solyndra Scandal: Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing

Tom Zeller Jr.  09.21.2011
The story of Solyndra, the Silicon Valley solar technology start-up that received half a billion dollars in loan guarantees from the federal...
WATCH: Al Gore Launches 24-Hour Call To Climate Action

WATCH: Al Gore Launches 24-Hour Call To Climate Action

Tom Zeller Jr.  09.15.2011
Al Gore has his work cut out for him -- and a recent Gallup Poll hints at why. For nearly 30 years, when asked by Gallup to prioritize,...
Some Republicans, Gambling The Globe, Peddle Ignorance On Climate

Some Republicans, Gambling The Globe, Peddle Ignorance On Climate

Tom Zeller Jr.  09. 8.2011
CLARKSTOWN, N.Y. -- Just off Exit 14 on the New York State Thruway, in the middle of a tandem truck lot bounded by the box stores of Spring...
Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Disappointments All Around

Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Disappointments All Around

Tom Zeller Jr.  09. 1.2011
Late last month, Rep. Fred Upton, the Michigan Republican who chairs the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, laid out what he...
Does Climate Drive Warfare? A New Study Suggests There's No Question

Does Climate Drive Warfare? A New Study Suggests There's No Question

Tom Zeller Jr.  08.24.2011
At the outset of his new book, "Tropic of Chaos" author Christian Parenti suggests that the violent death of Kenyan farmer Ekaru Loruman...
Tim DeChristopher: Is Civil Disobedience The Key To Climate Change Action?

Tim DeChristopher: Is Civil Disobedience The Key To Climate Change Action?

Tom Zeller Jr.  07.26.2011
On Dec. 19, 2008, a 27-year-old man named Tim DeChristopher, troubled by American energy policy and its contribution to global warming,...
The Keystone Pipeline: When A Landowner Says 'No'

The Keystone Pipeline: When A Landowner Says 'No'

Tom Zeller Jr.  07.20.2011
Sue Kelso, born Sue White, is fiercely attached to a 180-acre slice of southern Oklahoma farmland. The property, about two hours north...
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