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WASHINGTON -- Last Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final research plan to study the effects of hydraulic fracturing on dr...

While Obama's jobs speech is being framed as a turning point for his tenure as president, there is another job I would respectively suggest he concentrate on: protecting the lives of America's children.

This week, President Obama will find hundreds more people in front of the White House -- us included -- willing to go to jail for peacefully protesting the President's short-sighted decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

As Congress debates how to protect Americans from dangerous chemical facilities, Koch is once again opposing legislation that would make America safer, despite the enormous risk its facilities pose to communities, workers, and our environment.

Michael Silberman, the brain behind the "Meetup" grassroots organizing strategy used by Howard Dean's presidential campaign, and co-founder of digital...

Germany, Switzerland and Italy are all abandoning nuclear in favor of clean and safe renewable energy that don't threaten our homes and communities with meltdowns and radioactive fallout

Top decision makers in Washington seem to have forgotten that "natural" gas is a fossil fuel, with some of the same damning negatives as coal and oil.

Mattel's paper purchasing polices are weaker than Ken's plastic handshake. On Tuesday Greenpeace released a dossier of new evidence showing how Mattel is wrapping the world's most famous toy in rainforest destruction.

Right now, 'the world in which we live and play' is in trouble. For companies like Mattel, cute phrases aren't enough. They need strict rules to prevent rainforest destruction from contaminating their toys.

Yesterday eight peaceful protesters on Chicago's Fisk Coal Plant painted the message "Quit Coal" on the 450-foot smokestack looming over the city's So...

Peter King appears more interested in political posturing and appeasing chemical industry lobbyists than tackling real terrorist threats like the risk of a poison gas disaster in New York.

The Arctic has won a reprieve from offshore oil drilling this year. Oil giant Shell just announced they won't pursue offshore oil drilling in the fr...

Yesterday I attended the symposium "Forests at Risk: Climate Change and the Future of the American West," organized by the non-profit For the Forest in Aspen, Colorado. Al Gore was the keynote speaker and concluded the symposium with a call to action.

House Republicans want to pass a continuing resolution that would cut $3 billion from EPA funding, eliminate its top positions, and block its ability to require that wealthy companies reduce carbon pollution.

Tropical rainforests are called the lungs of the earth, because they suck in pollution and breath out clean, healthy air. There is a darker side to this story, though -- without protection, these same forests could actually speed up global warming.

In these challenging times it will not be surprising if President Obama glosses over critical environmental issues in his State of the Union address J...

The White House, for whatever reason, did not want to disclose to the public how bad the oil spill could really be. Who was the White House protecting? Certainly not the American public. And certainly not the Gulf of Mexico.

A clean energy revolution would not only help stop global warming and get our ailing economy back on track, but it is also the only 100 percent fail-safe method for preventing oil spills.

Ms. Carol Browner Director Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 August 16, 20...

Few Americans are engaged in this societal challenge in a way that would generate the necessary political will to act. It is the absence of public pressure that has resulted in the current state of political inaction.