Boxer Avoids The Baucus Trap
There's no way her bill will become law without further changes, but Boxer did exactly what needed to be done to get any bill passed.
There's no way her bill will become law without further changes, but Boxer did exactly what needed to be done to get any bill passed.
Larry Coben | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
There is no nuclear renaissance -- at most a faint glimmer of hope for the end of a long nuclear dark age. Initial drafts of climate change and energy legislation do little to promote nuclear development.
Bill Scher | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Sen. Graham may be a conservative, but he is not a moron. He knew full well the right-wing lunacy that would be unleashed by his willingness to compromise to pass carbon cap legislation.
treehugger.com | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green
Google Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth's atmosphere....
Melissa Bradley | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
What has stood out for me about Ted Kennedy was his ability to balance his vision with the most pragmatic of details, across the wide breadth of issues.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
We are stardust We are golden We are billion year-old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden Woodstock, Joni Mitchell What sounded...
theage.com.au | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
A fully costed map for how Australia could reduce greenhouse gas emissions "at emergency speed" will be developed with the backing of former US vice-p...
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green
Many people have a hard time accepting that one can emit CO2 from a power plant in Ohio and offset those emissions by capturing methane on a North Carolina hog farm.
Henry Henderson | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
D.C. should take notice that the Midwest is opening the road to a reinvigorated economy and clean energy future.
Richard Seireeni | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green
An African brand driven by sustainability can establish new rules for participation in African growth, one that extends its rewards to those at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Ginna Kelly | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green
A cap-and-trade program is an example of free market environmentalism. It harnesses a company's creative forces to find effective ways to reduce emissions.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green
PepsiCo learned that it wasn't running the Tropicana factory or transporting juice containers, but the nitrogen fertilizers they used that were the primary carbon emissions culprit.
James Glave | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green
Do you know how much carbon that quick Google search just kicked up? Or the atmospheric price of that orange juice? Me neither. In fact, I don't care.
Seth Bauer | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
PepsiCo made a big, vitamin-C-filled p.r. splash this week when it released its calculations for the carbon footprint of a half-gallon of orange juice.
Paige Donner | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
Walker agreed to this interview while attending the Opportunity Green Conference held this past weekend on UCLA's campus. Media coordination provided by eConnectGroup.
environment360 | Bill Mckibben | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green
And so our eight-year interlude from reality draws to a close, and the job of cleaning up begins. The trouble is, we're not just cleaning up after a f...
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Most candles are made from paraffin wax, which is derived from crude oil. Demand for these products plays into our reliance on fossil fuels.
Al Eisele | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green
It's here, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, that could be the home of one of the cutting edge technologies of the 21st century. It's called single-wall carbon nanotubes.
Michael Conniff | Posted 09.14.2008 | Green
Well, my friends, if John McCain calls his audience "my friends" one more time I will never say the words "missing in action" again. If he refers to "...
Patrick Pfeiffer | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green
The recent ramping up in production of biodiesel and ethanol has brought forth some bad rap to the alternative fuels world. The negative side to increased biodiesel and ethanol production includes . . .
J.S. McDougall | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the average U.S. household will pay $1,161 a year in higher energy prices when carbon emissions are reduced 15 percent.
Richard Stuebi | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
Everyone wants to know the number of new jobs that will result from a move to an advanced energy economy. My pat answer is, "It's likely to be a very big number, but no one can possibly quantify it."
Dr. James Hansen | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
Yesterday, I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after I first alerted the public that warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.
Paul Abrams | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green
Current debates about energy independence are future-oriented, and will do nothing in the short term to ease economic woes. Let's use the internet to stop the bleeding: take up the following challenge.
Bill Scher | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green