Today we launch the first day of the Green Gov Conference held at George Washington University in Washington DC. Administration officials Steven Chu, ...
Sarah Chasis | Posted 05.25.2011
Tomorrow evening at the Commonwealth Club of California, the Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley and National Oceanic and Atmos...
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors Initiative to develop a conservation and recreation agenda that would use community-based soluti...
Posted 05.25.2011
A week of activity on the impending Asian carp crisis kicks off Monday with a meeting at the White House. Nancy Sutley, the president's top environme...
Will Byrne | Posted 05.25.2011
In preparing for yesterday's Energy Canvass in honor of the MLK Day of Service, I restored in my mind Dr. King's vision of the attainable "Beloved Com...
Posted 05.25.2011
The official transcript of President Obama's address at The Human Rights Campaign's 13th Annual National Dinner on Saturday, as released by the White ...
Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011
The requirement for the U.S. Congress to sign off on any document produced at Copenhagen for it to legally bind us to those agreements, is another reason why I'm hopeful.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Now is the time for all good greens, rednecks, social entrepreneurs, hellraisers, Repower America and Al Gore to come to the aid of their fellow citizens in the Appalachian coalfields.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
From forged letters to fake rallies, the revelations over Big Coal's public relations machinations continue. Today's candidate for the "bogus coal front of the week" is FACES, the Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
In a stunning blow to mountaintop removal blasting operations in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia this morning, two fearless protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners.
Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011
As a Latina, Sutley is aware of our community's disproportionate suffering from the consequences of environmental degradation.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Are Obama's well-meaning but irresolute environmental administrators abetting the crimes of human rights violations and historicide?
Carlos A. Ball | Posted 05.25.2011
I want to find reasons to still believe that the Obama Administration will do the right thing for LGBT people, and do it relatively soon.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
If we are to be serious about addressing the "inconvenient truth," then banning mountaintop removal is a logical and required first step in capturing carbon and saving our forests.
The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 05.25.2011
Cabinet members: they're more than just bureaucratic figureheads. They will also paint your house, fertilize your lawn and serve you lunch, as reveale...
Julie Packard | Posted 05.25.2011
We're more worried about the economy than about long-term ocean health, and we don't see the connection between the two.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
It is almost beyond belief that President Obama, CEQ chief Nancy Sutley and EPA head Lisa Jackson have made no attempt to visit actual mining sites under their jurisdiction.
David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no reason to think that this bill is going to be Obama's only legacy on energy. Already there's been the stimulus bill, the new mileage standards and the big climate impacts report.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
The human rights and constitutional violations of American citizens besieged by ruthless outside coal companies will be on full display this week to the national media and the nation.
CQ Politics | Posted 05.25.2011
***SEE UPDATES BELOW*** CQPolitics reports that not all of the confirmation hearings have gone smoothly for Obama appointees and that we can add two ...
David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama, while introducing his green team today, made a point that he intends to make "again and again: There is not a contradiction between economic growth and sound environmental practices."
David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011
When Obama promised change, he wasn't talking about plucking amateurs from outside government. He was talking about a change from incompetence and stagnation to competence and progress.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI and DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist...
Frank Sesno | Posted 05.25.2011