Is what we are seeing in Copenhagen part of a larger breakdown in global diplomacy unless genuine steps are taken to mitigate impacts of climate change?
Rhone Resch | Posted 12.14.2009 | Green
During his briefing today to announce the launch of expanded clean energy in developing countries today, Steven Chu also debunked two major myths about solar energy.
Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green
Using his executive authority, President Barack Obama can instruct power plants to slash emissions and order new efficiency standards to cut the energy used by consumer and commercial appliances.
Alexia Parks | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green
The requirement for the U.S. Congress to sign off on any document produced at Copenhagen for it to legally bind us to those agreements, is another reason why I'm hopeful.
PolitiFact | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck has seized on a claim circulating on the Internet to argue that the Obama administration has little understanding o...
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein/Eve Solomon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
As part of HuffPost's One Year Later series, we're looking back at many of the significant moments since Obama was elected. After 8 years of an admini...
James M. Gentile | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Transformative science is high-risk high-reward inquiry. It's crucial that government take the lead in this regard, especially with the U.S. economy struggling.
Steven Chu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
Long before I learned about the risks of climate change, I was fanatical about energy efficiency because I'm cheap. We want to help millions of families seize the same opportunity to cut their utility bills.
Gene Karpinski | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
As President Obama has said many times: the nation that leads in the creation of a clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.
Mike Signer | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
W.H. Climate Change Policy Director Carol Browner said, "I've been in and out of D.C. for twenty years, and there's sort of that tipping point that happens, where everyone who talks starts saying not 'if' but 'when.'"
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
Energy Secretary Steven Chu likely won't get the network of new biofuel research labs he wanted. That's because Congress has loaded an energy-spendin...
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.
Yahoo! Finance | Steven K. Paulson, Associated Press Writer | Posted 11.30.2009 | Denver
DENVER (AP) -- Colorado will get more than $34 million in federal stimulus money for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, U.S. Energy Secr...
Posted 11.26.2009 | Denver
Colorado's senators and Rep. John Salazar sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu this week urging him to remove a Mesa County storage site fr...
James M. Gentile | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Other nations are producing more scientists than we are, and increasingly their economies are offering better job opportunities. America's future can be great, but it depends on preserving our preeminence in science and technology.
James M. Gentile | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
If the future of our nation is not continually renewed by young Americans well supported in their advanced scientific research, we likely will have a very dim future indeed.
A. Siegel | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green
As with looking toward better sanitation options in Finland, some potentially critical sessions proceed with too little media attention. Right now, Boulder, Colorado, is hosting one such meeting: North American Biochar 2009.
The Denver Post | Lynn Bartels | Posted 08.31.2009 | Denver
The issue of where to store what could be 17,000 tons of hazardous mercury waste has pitted state against state and become an issue in Colorado's gub...
Grist.org | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green
Grist.org images an awesome and hilarious facebook page for Energy Secretary Steven Chu....
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
On Tuesday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart dedicated the program to talking about climate change, and The Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill. He immediately g...
Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green
There's much to love about carbon capture, in theory. But carbon capture continues our dependence on coal-fired power plants, and does little to change the status quo.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Saying global warming poses unprecedented threats to Americans' way of life, four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and...
David Roberts | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green
There is no reason to think that this bill is going to be Obama's only legacy on energy. Already there's been the stimulus bill, the new mileage standards and the big climate impacts report.
AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON and KEN THOMAS | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
DEARBORN, Mich. — Cultivating the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles, the Obama administration said Tuesday it would lend $5.9 billion t...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
A lot of hot air has been emitted on the dangerous oxymoron of "clean coal. The truth is that carbon capture and storage technology is still in its experimental phase
Alexia Parks | Posted 12.14.2009 | Green