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The Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference addresses unparalleled environmental crisis and the need to transform our relationship with nature. Many p...
The Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference addresses unparalleled environmental crisis and the need to transform our relationship with nature. Many p...
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver
Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall Wednesday took his boldest step yet on the road to a national nuclear renaissance as part of a program designed to comba...
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home
Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall Wednesday took his boldest step yet on the road to a national nuclear renaissance as part of a program designed to comba...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
T. Boone Pickens has garnered much renown over the past two years with his "Pickens Plan" for energy independence, which basically reads: "America sho...
coloradoindependent.com | David O. Williams | Posted 11.30.2009 | Denver
MONTROSE -- It began with the audience turning, facing the flag and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Just over an hour later, a special Montrose Cou...
Bob Dinneen | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green
So when are we going to wake up to the fact that our dependence on imported oil is worse than in the days of Carter's "malaise"? And what are we going to do about it?
Robert Creamer | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
The critical battles being fought in 2009 are not about "policies" -- they are about the distribution of wealth and power.
Larry Coben | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
Tomorrow in Washington, the Gigaton Throwdown releases its long awaited report on how to remove a gigaton of CO2 from our atmosphere while building an...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — An advisory group of retired generals and admirals said in a report issued Monday that reducing America's reliance on oil and addre...
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 05.10.2009 | Green
With three or four million people on my side, I'm a hell of a lot more important in Washington than I am in Texas. And you know what that means? America is finally going to get an energy plan.
Newsweek | Fareed Zakaria | Posted 05.05.2009 | Green
Energy independence sounds like such a great idea. If only we could be free ... of what, exactly? The single biggest energy exporter to the U.S. is Ca...
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green
The rest of the world is wondering why no one in Washington appears to be the least bit concerned about the astonishing risks we continue to run by doing nothing about our dependence on foreign oil.
Francine Hardaway | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics
It's possible that no economic stimulus will work. Each one will prop up the economy for a while, but the underlying structure has to melt down completely before it can grow back correctly.
Clusterstock | Jay Yarow | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green
More than half the world's supply of lithium--73 million tons--is in Bolivia, a nation run by populist Evo Morales. In anticipation of a growing need ...
Grist | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
Salazar pledged to "clean up the mess" at the Department of Interior, which has seen controversies over non-collection of oil royalties and an embarra...
AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is adding a new wrinkle to his push for U.S. energy independence: monthly updates to remind Americans...
Bob Dinneen | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green
Given the higher cost for building new cellulosic plants, changes in tax provisions will help with financing. But more is needed if we are to sustain the growth of this vital home grown industry.
Paige Donner | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business
What's interesting about the governor's climate conference is that you normally would think that international negotiations or solutions are all about Heads of State talking to each another.
Grist | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green
One reason some Democrats are saying they want to keep Lieberman happily among their ranks is his work on climate and energy issues. He cosponsored la...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
Corn-based ethanol saves little oil and contributes even less to minimizing carbon dioxide emissions, drives up the cost of food, and requires almost as much energy from fossil fuels.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green
The fact that we hold only 3% of the world's oil reserves, and yet consume 25% of it, makes it clear that we cannot drill our way out of our current energy dependence.
Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
As our presidential nominees discuss bailouts and economic plans they have largely ignored one particular issue that underpins them all: Saudi Arabia.
Michael Moynihan | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green
Whether or not a stimulus package is accomplished, government needs to create the machinery to retire our energy inefficient infrastructure and replace it with low-carbon infrastructure.
Josh Nelson | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green
It is starting to look like Pickens has a bad habit of telling a few whoppers in every public appearance. Lie #1: Democratic candidates don't know how reducing CO2 emissions by 60-80% is possible.
Josh Nelson | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
OPEC is acting to immediately stabilize prices in the neighborhood of $70-$90 per barrel. Just eight years ago OPEC tried to keep prices in the $22-$28 range.
Jared Braiterman | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green