TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica — Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific e...
Grist | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green
Sarah McCoin watched for years as coal fly ash piled up at the coal-fired power plant just a mile down the road from her house in Harriman, Tenn. "We'...
AFP | Thu Feb 19, 10:56 Am ET | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green
Around a dozen members of activist group Greenpeace rallied outside the presidential palace during a meeting between Clinton and President Susilo Bamb...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in both the Senate and House want to take action this year to stem global warming, but the imploding economy and...
Grist | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green
A departure by Sebelius would make her lieutenant governor, Mark Parkinson, the new guv. From his official bio, we learn that Parkinson entered Kansas...
Treehugger | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green
As Obama gets ready to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan, the new head of US intelligence warns that another severe threat to national securit...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green
In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency seemed to be the most blatant tool being used to execute "midnight ...
gas2.org | Written by Gavin Newsom | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
Last November, I joined Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to announce a nine-step policy plan for transforming the Bay Area into...
Think Progress | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
After much clamoring by energy hawks, who knows what it was that finally brought high-speed rail to the stimulus -- perhaps a little nudge from ol' Am...
Videogum | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green
Videogum dug up this little gem -- a pro-CO2 video. Now, I'm not fundamentally against carbon dioxide. And I don't know anyone who is. And that's wha...
AFP | 16 Hours Ago | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green
The United Nations called Monday on rich nations to forge a "Global Green New Deal" that puts the environment, climate change and poverty reduction at...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green
So it's finally passed -- a huge chunk of money will be flowing to infrastructure projects that are supposed to be green in nature and reinvigorate a ...
businessinsider.com | Jay Yarow|Feb. 16, 2009, 10:03 AM| | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green
While the global recession is cutting output, and thus reducing carbon output, their research suggests that carbon pricing policies are responsible fo...
AFP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green
She set a conciliatory tone after eight years of president George W. Bush's administration, who minimized the threat from global warming and rejected ...
AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green
TOKYO — The U.N. climate chief praised President Barack Obama's pledge to tackle global warming and expressed hope Friday that the U.S. policy s...
Grist | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green
Somebody in the capital must have seen those "Reality" ads where the kindly man in the construction helmet offers a tour of a clean coal facility, onl...
New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER and MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green
Dr. Chu said a "revolution" in science and technology would be required if the world is to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and curb the emission...
calgaryherald.com | Jason Fekete | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green
The campaign--which kicked off Tuesday with an ad in Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper--features print ads and a new website, as well as asking Cana...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Environmental advocates urged Congress on Wednesday to reinstate the broad moratorium on offshore oil drilling, but a key congressm...
Sierra Club | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford today became the third governor in a matter of days to renounce coal when he announced his opposition to a coal p...
e360.yale.edu | Fred Pearce | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
What I am talking about here, however, is a growing list of rapidly industrializing countries that don't have targets under the existing Kyoto Protoco...
Grist | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
BELFAST -- Northern Ireland's environment minister came under fire Monday after he banned a climate change ad campaign, saying it was "nonsense" to su...
Grist | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
On Monday Reuters broke the story that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is organizing a summit in New York next month, where he hopes to get heads o...
Grist | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green
NV Energy, Inc. announced that it is postponing plans to build a "clean coal" plant in eastern Nevada, citing "environmental and economic uncertaintie...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green
Grist reports that Senators John Kerry and Dick Lugar made it clear that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would be making the environment a big ...
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green