Rumors are swirling that the Obama transition team may be eyeing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to head up the Environmental Protection Agency. Despite his left-leaning…
Effect Measure has an interesting post highlighting a study that used stable isotope analysis (I totally know what this means but, um, don’t want to…
From the Department of Disgusting Environmental Repercussions:
A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out the sun, fouling the lungs of…
Not that I really thought an underwater creature would triumph over the United States military, but today’s Supreme Court decision is still a bummer. The…
The fight over the House Energy and Commerce Committee took a new turn today, as news came out that John Dingell (D-MI) has hired K-street…
As I said yesterday, I don’t think Larry Summers is the best choice for Treasury Secretary. But some other Summers opponents are launching a deeply…
Today over at Campus Progress, Cameron Cook reviews Van Jones’ new book, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems.…
It looks like the Bush administration is trying to flex its muscles one last time before the White House changes hands:
The White House is…
Our generation knows it: coal is not “clean,” it’s dangerous. Nonetheless, King Coal and Big Oil are not giving up. Realizing that people aren’t buying…
Both Ezra Klein and Kevin Drum are weighing in on a possible high speed rail connecting L.A. to San Francisco. Kevin argues that it wouldn’t…
The US imports more oil from Nigeria than it does from Iraq. Yet Nigeria, and the myriad human rights and environmental abuses associated with oil…
A Boston Globe environmental blog reported yesterday:
In the 1850s, a few years after he had gone to “live deliberately” in a cabin in the…
As I write this I’m watching a mother and her daughter walk into our condominium building. Like me, the building is their home, but unlike…
Just in case you were wondering, coal is still not clean, despite the $40 million dollars spent by King Coal to convince you otherwise.
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Talk about a consensus: 90 percent of young people around the world think global leaders should do “whatever it takes” to tackle climate change, according…
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