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News One brief shining moment for clean energy

Passage of the first climate bill in the House is a big first step to cut global warming. But it's not enough
  • Blowing jobs to China

    How screwed up is U.S. energy policy? A wind farm in Texas might get stimulus money to buy Chinese technology
  • Auto safety for dummies

    Critics who whine Obama is outlawing big cars for dangerous compacts are riding shotgun with empty barrels.
  • Obama is just blowing smoke

    The White House says it's serious about climate change. But its plan to regulate carbon emissions is doomed to fail.
  • Don't believe the fossil-fuel lies

    Joining oil companies and conservatives, the Breakthrough Institute says we can reduce emissions without raising the cost of carbon pollution. It's a fantasy.
  • The dirty green line

    Erecting new transmission lines for solar and wind power is a boon to coal-burning utilities and a drain on our wallets. What's an environmentalist to do?
  • Blowing away King Coal

    Can a scrawny young wind-power activist topple the biggest, dirtiest industry in West Virginia?
  • Real science comes to Washington

    Myopic conservatives and the media still don't get global warming. But if anybody can preserve a livable climate, Obama's amazing energy team can.
  • The problem with cheap oil

    The price may fall still farther in 2009. Be careful what you wish for.
  • Sarah Palin's stiletto

    Put away the Quayle and Eagleton comparisons. Palin's for real, and on the key issue of energy policy, she has to be reckoned with
  • Ain't no wind in T. Boone Pickens' sails

    The oil tycoon's support of John McCain for president demonstrates that his heavily advertised plan for wind power is only hot air.
  • Anti-science conservatives must be stopped

    Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake.
  • Nuclear bomb

    Nuclear energy, the sequel, is opening to raves by everybody from John McCain to a Greenpeace co-founder. Don't be fooled. It's the "Ishtar" of power generation.
  • Why gas is so expensive

    It's not runaway greed or overregulation. It's the world we live in. It's a price that can be seen in a single gallon of California gas.
  • Winds of change

    The U.S. can greatly boost clean wind power for 2 cents a day. Now all we need is a president who won't blow the chance.
  • Turn down that thermostat, permanently

    In the new world order, energy scarcity will dominate our lives -- determining when we drive, if we travel, and what we eat.
  • So long, John -- gas is $4 a gallon

    When gas prices rise, incumbent parties hit the skids. If only it were that simple.
  • Ask the pilot

    One airline is taking climate change very seriously. Will others follow suit? Plus: What to do with all that on-board trash?
  • The car of the future is here

    The Prius? Nope. Hydrogen? Forget about it. Plug-in hybrids are the only way to drive.
  • How to politicize gas prices

    Press conference kung fu -- Republicans: We need more gas! Democrats: We need to use less!
  • Oil companies: High gas prices are Bush's fault

    The president's ethanol push is discouraging the industry from investing in new refinery capacity, executives say. What does the White House think of that?
  • Black gas-price Monday?

    The cost of a gallon of gas hits an all-time high, which makes Sen. Chuck Schumer gloomy. He should cheer up
  • Eliot Spitzer takes a swing at Dick Cheney

    The governor of New York says there are some simple things that the vice president doesn't understand about energy policy.
  • Gone with the wind

    The rich may be moaning about wind turbines ruining their coastal views on Cape Cod, but in Delaware, citizens are ardently battling politicians -- and the coal industry -- to build the nation's largest offshore wind park.
  • Let's call the coal thing off

    Coal supplies nearly half the electricity in the U.S. and is responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than any other electricity source. Is it too late to kick the habit?
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