On the night of his re-election, President Barack Obama described grand ambitions for his second term, including a desire to bequeath to future genera...
What if, back in 2009, Obama had followed in President Kennedy's footsteps and made a moonshot speech about the climate, pledging to make the US the world's first carbon-neutral country within ten years? What if he did that right now?
It was a rich, if abbreviated exchange.
"President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans," declared Mitt Romney, the Republican pres...
Obama calls for federal, state and local authorities to engage in a coordinated adaptive response to global warming. Yet with so many officials dubious of global warming, the necessary degree of cooperation is hard to envision.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore is going where few environmentalists - and fellow Democrats - have gone before: criticizing President...
Sen. John McCain blasted President Barack Obama's global-warming plan Tuesday, saying it would hurt an already battered economy by raising energy cost...
The plan covers a range of issues that merit prompt presidential attention, but it underscores the immediate need to solve the entwined economic, climate, and environmental crises.
It is a relief that we are now discussing how, rather than whether, to address this global crisis. But will Obama's actions be up to the crisis at hand?
Until last month, Jason Burnett was a high-ranking political appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency. But "after concluding there was no more...
As he rolled out his plan to combat global warming this week, Republican John McCain jumped at the opportunity to remind voters that he'd flown nearly...