As the world converges on Copenhagen this week, what would be an appropriate place for the U.S. Congress to meet to discuss global warming? Crammed into a huge stretch SUV?
Jerry Cope | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green
I think that we have passed the level at which you're going to get effects that we do not want or that we want our children to have to bear.
Anne Butterfield | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver
How about a plan to reduce atmospheric CO2 at industrial scale in a safe and economically attractive scheme?
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
Barcelona was supposed to bring hints of what's to come in December at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen. A world seeking sanity.
Jerry Cope | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
The forecast in Coal River, W.V. now calls for heavy boulders and flying debris. Climate scientist James Hansen has declared it "ground zero in the fight against climate change".
Jerry Cope | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green
COP15 may very well be the last chance for the world to reach a consensus on measures to reduce GHG emissions and avoid climate chaos for the next millennium.
Jerry Cope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks spent the past week tree-sitting 80 feet above the ground in an act of civil disobedience protesting Massey Energy's mountaintop removal site there.
Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green
We have the technology to meet the goal. What we lack is the political will and we need that in spades to aggressively pursue all of the clean power technologies we have for efficiency and new power. We should be treating this like a war, but we clearly are not.
Jerry Cope | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green
After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.
Mark Engler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
In 2007, a group of Greenpeace activists in Britain sent tremors through an emerging global movement determined to use direct action to combat the depredations of climate change.
Seth Bauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green
Climate change skeptics were on my mind this week as I read, The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan's book on the Dust Bowl. Now Sen. James Inhofe is helping to write the sequel.
Joseph Romm | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green
Hansen can keep pushing his carbon tax if he wants to. Heck, he can argue the merits of Betamax if he wants. But trashing Waxman-Markey based on recycled myths remains ill-conceived and unhelpful.
Dave Cooper | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green
Irate coal miners disrupted the annual 4th of July community picnic atop Larry Gibson's Kayford Mountain, the only mountain left in the area that has not been decapitated for coal.
Jerry Cope | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green
Coal mining is the Appalachians is the great American tragedy, and every citizen of this country should be ashamed and horrified that we are collectively allowing this to happen.
Carl Pope | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green
The defense of mountaintop-removal mining -- as formerly with strip-mining -- is that the economy of Appalachia depends on it. This canard now has been solidly rebutted.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
Daryl Hannah, NASA's celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, and 94-year-old Ken Hechler, the legendary congressman and coal miner hero were arrested in a non-violent protest in West Virginia.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green
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.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 07.21.2009 | Green
Massey Energy President Don Blankenship challenged one of the world's top climate experts to a debate on global warming this week after learning NASA ...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
Four daring protesters accomplished something today that no high ranking member in the Obama administration has ever bothered to do.
Steve Kirsch | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green
I thought it would be fun to speculate at how Waxman and Markey might have responded if they were required to answer each question directly, without being "politically correct."
David Roberts | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
grist.orgI find it really hard to believe, but the perennial "carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade" debate is still going on. It goes on and on and on and it ...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
Let's hope the next 100 days bring us a real green jobs package for the coalfields.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
This week's "60 Minutes" had a feature on coal which compares the CEO of Duke Energy "a reformed tobacco executive." Sounds like it has potential, rig...
David Roberts | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
Can we phase out coal and maintain a modern economy? It seems that it never occurs to the producers of 60 Minutes to seriously ask the question.
Jerry Cope | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green
How many people in the US realize that the UN panel on climate change said there is 90% chance that the climate change we are seeing at the moment is caused by human activity?
John Feffer | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green