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Green Concerns Over the Energy Bill
Environmental groups are anxiously watching three votes this week that could significantly water down the energy bill currently before the Senate. The outcome of...
Super Bowl for the Earth
The pigskin may be brown, but game day is going green. When the stadium lights flick on in Miami Feb. 4 for Super Bowl XLI, the world's most ballyhooed kickoff...
28 Have a green wedding
You won't be able to stop global warming on your wedding day, but your choices can lessen the carbon footprint of your event. If your guests are traveling long...
Going Green: How Business Saw the Light
On a cloudless afternoon early last fall, Honda CEO Takeo Fukui stood by his company's test track outside Tokyo and watched a group of journalists take the...
Blackout '03: Getting By Without the Grid
There's nothing like a multistate summertime blackout to get environmentalists and industry groups throwing spitballs at one another. Extreme greens wag...
Solar Crusader
Members of the German parliament don't usually create much of a stir outside Europe. But Hermann Scheer electrified a Washington audience last month with his...
Not in My Back Bay
Windmills make sense. They generate clean, renewable energy without contributing to global warming or our reliance on Middle Eastern oil. They are also big and...
Selling the Sun...and the Wind
There's an old joke in Brazil that it is the nation of the future--and always will be. For decades the same has been said of the renewable-energy industry...
A Sunny Forecast
Arrayed along the pipelines of Enron Oil & Gas in the American Southwest is a series of boxy monitors that transmit data about the flow of the company's precious...
Breezing into The Future
A decade ago, windmills promised to be a clean, reliable source of power that could help wean America from its dependence on dirty fuels and foreign oil. The...
The IEA Says Peak Oil Is Dead. That’s Bad News for Climate Policy
A new report suggests that fresh sources of oil in North America will loosen the global oil market. Will we stay addicted to oil—and will it keep us from...
Obama Nominates a Fighter and an Engineer at the EPA and the Energy Department
President Obama announces new nominees to head the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy—and both candidate will be tested in the years...
Meltdown: Despite the Fear, the Health Risks from the Fukushima Accident Are Minimal
The nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima plant caused the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people and sparked fears of a health catastrophe. But nearly...
President Obama: Person of the Year—and Driller in Chief
President Obama promised to deal with climate change in the White House—and he's helped pump billions into renewable energy and improved energy efficiency. But...
How to End Blackouts Forever
There is a way to make our grid more resilient and blackouts a thing of the past. Here's how:
The New Oil and Gas Boom
In their second debate, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney began with a spirited discussion on energy, during which they both agreed on the goal of making America more...
The First Presidential Debate: A Test of Character, Not Necessarily Substance
We tend to process debates with our reptile brains. We watch for moments of conflict, wit, fallibility. In theory debates are edifying exchanges and arguments...
Must-Reads from Around the World
Pakistan-India Ties — VOA News notes that improving ties between Pakistan and India in recent months are pivotal for Afghanistan’s future. Increased co-operation...
Pro Sports Go Green. Do Fans Care?
The NFL season finally kicked off last night when the Dallas Cowboys came to New York—or actually the New York-adjacent swamplands of New Jersey—to take on the...
A Tough Slog: Obama Asks America to Go on Hope
I’m not on President Obama’s payroll, no matter what Stephen Colbert says, so I can say this without fear of being fired: I didn’t get that speech. It felt...
