"Clunker Cash" That Makes Sense For New York
For the 77% of Manhattan households who do not have a car, the picture is clear: By limiting the clunkers program to automobiles, urban consumers have been left out of the recovery picture.
For the 77% of Manhattan households who do not have a car, the picture is clear: By limiting the clunkers program to automobiles, urban consumers have been left out of the recovery picture.
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
We are all singing from the same songbook. America has more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil. But we've got to put it to work for us.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
In today's audio report: China & the U.S., together again
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: How 'green' is Sotomayor?; Bush and the baby bottles; PLUS: White is the new green! For roofs, that is .... All that and mor...
John Kerry | Posted 03.30.2009 | Green
This has to stop. A highly organized, well-funded movement to deny the reality of global climate change has been up and running for a long time, but it doesn't change the verdict: the problem is real, it's accelerating, and we have to act.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.18.2009 | Chicago
As the nation comes to grips with the need to shift our focus to non-fossil fuel sources of energy, it is disappointing to see Sen. Durbin turn into a cheerleader for the "Dirtiest Wing" of the coal industry.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green
The mechanization of above-ground mountaintop removal has prevented a diverse economy and led to a decrease in coal mining jobs in some of the highest poverty stricken strip-mining areas.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green
There's a new detail on this "clean coal" money: $2 billion are no longer slated for zero emissions plants, but "near-zero emissions" plants -- so much for all of those ads about zero emissions.
Ben Carmichael | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green
This is the problem of narrating climate change: it lacks the natural elements that make for a gripping story. Our earth's climate is a reality unfit for reality TV.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.23.2009 | Green
Coal ash contains mercury, lead, and arsenic. Nearly 800 Olympic-size swimming pools of that toxic mix are flowing into the waterways of Tennessee right now.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green
The incoming Secretary of Energy will have the choice of committing billions of dollars to relaunch the shipwrecked FutureGen coal-fired plant, or allocating that amount of funding to launch a sustainable wind or solar clean jobs project in the same Illinois area.
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics
Science Insider reports on the major shift that will occur at the Department of Energy when Steven Chu takes over: Steve Chu could be a groundbreaki...
Josh Nelson | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green
For the past eight years our energy and environmental policies have been run by children. All of that is set to change with the welcome news of Obama's apparent new Energy Secretary, Steven Chu.
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
Physicist Steven Chu will reportedly be named President-elect Barack Obama's Energy Secretary: Democratic officials close to the transition team say...
Scott Stringer | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York