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I'm not going to argue with Sarah Palin about the need for US energy independence, but clearly one doesn't have to sing a James Taylor song to know that we can't continue burning fossil fuels forever.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
The Hill reports that environmentalists are expressing unease that Democrats will permit more offshore drilling in the Senate's climate change bill. ...
David Roberts | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
If the Democrats are going to compromise on the climate change bill, they should secure real commitments in return. And they should compromise with money, not architecture.
Paul McRandle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
"Ocean sprawl" is a combination of offshore oil rigs, shipping lanes, wind farms and ever more ocean uses--and it puts increased pressure on ocean and coastal resources already under enormous strain.
Commonwealth Secretariat | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green
The Cook Islands has lodged a submission with the United Nations to secure access to additional areas of seabed for the benefit of present and future ...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.10.2009 | Green
NEW ORLEANS — As the Obama administration formulates its energy policy, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he would take a broad look...
AP | BY NOAKI SCHWARTZ | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Months after making national headlines for supporting offshore oil drilling, the county famous for spawning the modern env...
Politico | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Republicans are searching for a new catchphrase to define this year's offshore drilling debate after concluding the memorable "drill, baby, drill" lin...
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...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has rejected a Bush administration plan to open vast waters off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to o...
thehill.com | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green
Actor Ted Danson, a longtime ocean advocate and Oceana board member, is set to testify Wednesday morning about what he believes are the "chief threats...
AP | NOAKI SCHWARTZ | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green
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...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday the expansion of offshore oil drilling should be worked out with Congress as part of a ...
Sarah Chasis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
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.
James M. Gentile | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green
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 01.04.2009 | 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.
Grist | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green
Seventy-eight percent of voters believe that investing in clean energy is important to revitalizing the economy, according to a new Zogby Internationa...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green
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 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.
Mark Meier | Posted 11.21.2008 | 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 11.20.2008 | 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 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.
Brian Oxman | Posted 11.13.2008 | 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 11.06.2008 | 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.
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
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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Mark Axelrod | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green