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Florida's coast and oceans got their report card today. Flanked by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, no state is more dependent on the natur...
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Republicans are searching for a new catchphrase to define this year's offshore drilling debate after concluding the memorable "drill, baby, drill" lin...
Sarah Chasis | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green
I was reminded Tuesday that there's a new administration in Washington. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made some positive announcements about the fut...
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WASHINGTON — Environmental advocates urged Congress on Wednesday to reinstate the broad moratorium on offshore oil drilling, but a key congressm...
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WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has rejected a Bush administration plan to open vast waters off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to o...
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LOS ANGELES — An agreement paving the way for the first oil drilling off the California coast in nearly 40 years has run into unexpected opposit...
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WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday the expansion of offshore oil drilling should be worked out with Congress as part of a ...
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Campaigning in Florida last June as a presidential candidate, then-Senator Barack Obama blasted the proposal of his opponent, Senator John McCain, to ...
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Like a Clean Air Act for our air, and a Clean Water Act for our water - we need a landmark bill to protect the health of our oceans.
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Chu understands that energy policy is not just about oil, and he has a distinguished history of involvement in the kinds of transformational science that could radically alter U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green
As Secretary of Commerce, Bill Richardson can position the US as a leader on international ocean issues. He is a big-picture person, someone who understands the global stage.
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush ad...
Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
As our presidential nominees discuss bailouts and economic plans they have largely ignored one particular issue that underpins them all: Saudi Arabia.
Mark Meier | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home
The presidential race in Virginia is heating up--so is the environment. In the same week that an autumn heat wave brought 80ยบ days to the Commonwealt...
David Roberts | Posted 10.20.2008 | Green
A close look at the language Obama uses reveals that his support for things like nuclear and "clean coal" is framed in conditional terms that, if taken seriously, pose high and possibly insuperable barriers to those technologies becoming market competitive.
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.20.2008 | 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.
Brian Oxman | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
What the gas crisis did was deprive the mortgage, banking, and insurance industries of their fine line of profitability like a gust of wind on a high-wire act.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
The scary thing is that the Republicans want more. Even after it's obvious the realities of "drill, baby, drill" are "spill, baby, spill", they still want more.
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Clean coal is a lie. The catch-all term is used by politicians and coal advocates alike to lull the American public into complacency.
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