"With climate change, my generation runs the risk of giving to subsequent generations a problem they won't be able to solve."

Today NRDC Founder John Adams will travel to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United St...

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger During the State of the Union address earlier this week, President Barack Obama spoke at length about clea...

Ms. Carol Browner Director Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 August 16, 20...

Even if you accept the government's numbers, that still leaves 100 million gallons of oil still in the Gulf, either on the surface, dispersed, or unaccounted for. That's 10 times more than the Exxon-Valdez spilled.

Record flooding in Pakistan displaces millions; temperatures reach 106.3°F in the Ukraine; and the administration75% of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon blow-out has been taken care of by Mother Nature. Whew.

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Two disasters flared up this week, one environmental, the other political. Off the coast of Louisiana, oil f...

The US Defense Department authorized the deployment of the Louisiana National Guard to help local communities in the cleanup and removal of oil. Whether critical habitats can be protected from contamination is the question of the hour.

There is one, and only one, way to ensure that deep water oil drilling never again leads to catastrophe, and that is to discontinue all deep water oil drilling. Period.

NEW ORLEANS — White House energy czar Carol Browner says BP's next effort to contain the oil spewing from a damaged well in the Gulf could resul...

According to leaked reports on Wednesday, the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman draft of the climate bill would gut the Clean Air Act and over-ride existing state laws that provide critical environmental protections.

My father's joke is, you know when you're in trouble when you hear: 1) The check is in the mail. or 2) I'm from the government, I'm here to help you. ...

Corporations are not just citizens united to make protected speech, but artificial structures entitled to legal and tax advantages different from individual citizens. They exist for the avowed purpose of making money -- not advocating policy.

Using his executive authority, President Barack Obama can instruct power plants to slash emissions and order new efficiency standards to cut the energy used by consumer and commercial appliances.

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.

W.H. Climate Change Policy Director Carol Browner said, "I've been in and out of D.C. for twenty years, and there's sort of that tipping point that happens, where everyone who talks starts saying not 'if' but 'when.'"

Mountaintop removal has ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and depopulated and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin.