Obama Climate Policy

The big question in Durban is whether an extraordinarily obstructive Obama administration is days away from killing this process and burying its corpse next to the Doha round of trade talks. The stakes really are that high.

In a rather lengthy interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama spilled the beans about how he feels about the US government's current climate and e...

There's no way between now and Copenhagen that Obama can get a strong climate bill through Congress. So here's my suggestion.

It's excruciating for serious envirowonks to see complex and challenging policy questions distilled down to "tips" that, let's be brutally honest here, are not saving the planet.

A cap-and-dividend system would move energy markets toward clean fuels while generating billions of dollars in monthly dividend checks shared equally by all American families, guaranteed.

President-elect Obama has pledged that his administration will mark a "new chapter in America's leadership on climate change." The question is: What will open that first chapter?

As things stand, the single biggest obstacle to effective climate change mitigation is the lack of a comprehensive, international accord.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House on Thursday warned that countries hoping US President George W. Bush's successor will break sharply with his climat...