Life Cycle: Look into the Light
People give you this whole rap about how easy saving the planet is. Change a light bulb and save the world. Yes and no. How about we consider it a start rather than an end destination?
People give you this whole rap about how easy saving the planet is. Change a light bulb and save the world. Yes and no. How about we consider it a start rather than an end destination?
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain's campaign has worked hard to burnish his "maverick" credentials, with attempts to distance the candidate from unpopular Bush adminis...
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 01.05.2008 | Politics
As the presidential primary season heats up, an "anti-nuclear renaissance" against loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants will escalate, with the future of American energy policy and global warming hanging in the balance.
Van Jones | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics
Tucked into the new Energy bill were at least two provisions that should give everyone something to cheer about: the Green Jobs Act and its new (green) Pathways Out Of Poverty program.
Judy Dugan | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
Oil companies don't have to pay a penny or change any of their ways, but at least we consumers will do our part, being required to switch to low-energy lightbulbs by 2012.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.19.2007 | Business
That the government would not use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a symbolic gesture to counter OPEC's and the oil industry's rapaciousness borders on the incredulous, or perhaps more accurately, the malign.
NY Times | John Broder | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
Legislation that will slowly but fundamentally change the cars Americans drive, the fuel they burn, the way they light their homes and the price they ...
Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
During my time in Congress, I've learned to run marathons, not sprints. While getting 35 mpg over the finish line is a victory to celebrate, we must run renewable initiatives onto a new legislative track immediately.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
As much as I respect Dodd, he is not likely to win the nomination. So, the person who works with him can soak up all the credit for his FISA fight.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 12.14.2007 | Business
Those who voted against the stronger version of the energy bill have received an average of $109,000 from the oil and gas companies.
David Roberts | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
The Democrats can't just filibuster; it would likely spiral into a major budget crisis and a government shutdown. It's a huge gamble, and if they lost it could imperil their chances in 2008.
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill t...
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
Every passing moment renders nuke power significantly less competitive with advancing green technologies. Despite all the "nuclear renaissance" hype, no new reactors will be built without taxpayers footing the bill.
Carl Pope | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
I doubt Bali will be the beginning of the end in our struggle to find solutions to climate change. But, to paraphrase Churchill, it must be the end of the beginning.
David Roberts | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
On July 15 1979, President Jimmy Carter delivered his politically inopportune "malaise speech", remembered for its downcast assessment of t...
Washington Post | Steven Mufson and Jonathan Weisman | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes this morning to close debate on the energy bill passed by the House yesterday, setting the scene for a ...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
The House approved the first increase in federal automobile fuel efficiency requirements in three decades Thursday as part of an energy bill that also...
David Roberts | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
There's remarkable stuff going on up on the Hill today: thanks to the persistence of Pelosi (and others), the energy bill has been almost entirely restored to its original strength.
Bill Scher | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics
With prices this high, you don't need to give an oil company executive much financial incentive to drill for more fossil fuel.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.10.2007 | Politics
The oil lobby has the administration in its claws is a given. With a new Congress we were hoping for a new dawn. Fuhghetaboutit America!
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Simran Sethi | Posted 07.20.2008 | Green