If we fail to adapt intelligently to the post-CO2 era, the next few decades will see even higher energy costs -- leaving us with a ruined environment and a shattered economy, unable to face a future without fossil fuels.
Jonathan Lash | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green
As we compete on the playing fields, China and the U.S. should not lose sight of where our interests coincide -- climate change.
Jeremy Haft | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green
The Chinese authorities have made energy efficiency a top priority. And U.S. and Chinese officials recently agreed to work together to help lower China's energy intensity.
Peter Hoffmann | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green
We must stop putting carbon into the air in the first place -- not take it out afterwards -- and we must start moving towards a carbon-free chemical fuel -- hydrogen -- now to begin veering away from catastrophe.
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
A number of people I've spoken with were surprised that such interim targets matter. "What difference does it make," they've asked, "how we get to the reduction, as long as we get there?" Well, it makes a big difference. Here's why.
Walden Bello | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
The G8's endorsement of a 50% reduction in emissions by 2050 is a giant step backward and may have effectively undermined the prospects for an effective global climate strategy for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
J.S. McDougall | Posted 07.14.2008 | 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.
Starre Vartan | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green
For whatever reason, you can't quite give that fossil fuel fiend sitting in the garage up completely.
Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green
Let's drop any pretenses that Bush may embrace serious climate change legislation. His recognition of the crisis would come years too late, and his actions continue to speak volumes.
CNN | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green
Ted Koppel talks about the future of oil prices -- and of China's massive automotive growth -- on Reliable Sources. Watch below: ...
AP | TOM RAUM and JOSEPH COLEMAN | Posted 07.08.2008 | Home
TOYAKO, Japan — World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in ha...
Reuters | Joan Gralla | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will spend $2.3 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions from municipal buildings and operations by 30 percent in 30...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
While American politicians mull a carbon cap-and-trade system for industry, our British cousins are already contemplating the next step: personal CO2 ...
Kate Sheppard | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
EPA officials concluded that the benefits of new, tougher standards "far outweigh their costs." If gas prices stay around $3.50 a gallon, "the net benefit to society could be in excess of $2 trillion."
Huffington Post | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, on a recent appearance on Fox Business, said that as fuel costs rise, the most major costs are the hidden ones. He ...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green
Virginia decided that what the world really needs is another coal-fired power plant with no controls on release of carbon dioxide, and so gave the Dominion Company the go-ahead to build one.
Tom Schey | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
I must have missed the appointments of Larry, Moe, and Curly as CEOs of our sad sack U.S. automobile companies.
Los Angeles Times | Margot Roosevelt | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
California air regulators today announced a bold plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions that would alter the way utilities generate electricity, autom...
Graham Hill | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green
It seems that Europeans can live with smaller homes, less space, fewer and smaller cars, and less waste, yet still face the world grinning.
David Victor | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green
Serious global warming policies require careful political engineering because they imply a radical reorganization of the energy system. Last week's vote is a reminder that those policies could be years away.
ENN.com | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green
Gasoline-powered cars are perhaps the most inefficient devices that many of us use daily. The internal combustion engine is inefficient in term of pol...
The Guardian | Karen McVeigh | Posted 05.29.2008 | Green
It's the ultimate dilemma for the seriously rich with a conscience - how to enjoy private jet travel without the guilt about carbon footprints. But no...
Dan Worth | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living
Summer of '68 In the summer of 1968, the US was experiencing post-war growing pains that sparked the birth of a social and political movement that wou...
Carl Pope | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
Environmental Protection Agency staff are as upset at what administrator Stephen Johnson has instructed them to do as they are at what he has failed to do.
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Debbie Cook | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green