Passage of the first climate bill in the House is a big first step to cut global warming. But it's not enough
By Joseph Romm Jun 27, 2009
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How screwed up is U.S. energy policy? A wind farm in Texas might get stimulus money to buy Chinese technology
By Andrew Leonard
November 2, 2009
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Critics who whine Obama is outlawing big cars for dangerous compacts are riding shotgun with empty barrels.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 16, 2009
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The White House says it's serious about climate change. But its plan to regulate carbon emissions is doomed to fail.
By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
April 22, 2009
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Joining oil companies and conservatives, the Breakthrough Institute says we can reduce emissions without raising the cost of carbon pollution. It's a fantasy.
By Joseph Romm
April 22, 2009
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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?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 23, 2009
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Can a scrawny young wind-power activist topple the biggest, dirtiest industry in West Virginia?
By Jeff Biggers
January 29, 2009
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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.
By Joseph Romm
January 26, 2009
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The price may fall still farther in 2009. Be careful what you wish for.
By Michael Klare
January 9, 2009
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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
By Andrew Leonard
September 4, 2008
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The oil tycoon's support of John McCain for president demonstrates that his heavily advertised plan for wind power is only hot air.
By Joseph Romm
August 28, 2008
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Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake.
By Joseph Romm
June 30, 2008
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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.
By Joseph Romm
June 2, 2008
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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.
By Andrew Leonard
May 29, 2008
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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.
By Joseph Romm
May 17, 2008
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In the new world order, energy scarcity will dominate our lives -- determining when we drive, if we travel, and what we eat.
By Michael T. Klare
April 24, 2008
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When gas prices rise, incumbent parties hit the skids. If only it were that simple.
By Andrew Leonard
March 10, 2008
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One airline is taking climate change very seriously. Will others follow suit? Plus: What to do with all that on-board trash?
By Patrick Smith
February 29, 2008
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The Prius? Nope. Hydrogen? Forget about it. Plug-in hybrids are the only way to drive.
By Joseph Romm
January 22, 2008
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Press conference kung fu -- Republicans: We need more gas! Democrats: We need to use less!
By Andrew Leonard
June 14, 2007
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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?
By Andrew Leonard
May 24, 2007
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The cost of a gallon of gas hits an all-time high, which makes Sen. Chuck Schumer gloomy. He should cheer up
By Andrew Leonard
May 21, 2007
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The governor of New York says there are some simple things that the vice president doesn't understand about energy policy.
By Andrew Leonard
April 20, 2007
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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.
By Katherine Ellison
March 28, 2007
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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?
By Amanda Griscom Little
March 12, 2007
One brief shining moment for clean energy
Blowing jobs to China
Auto safety for dummies
Obama is just blowing smoke
Don't believe the fossil-fuel lies
The dirty green line
Blowing away King Coal
Real science comes to Washington
The problem with cheap oil
Ain't no wind in T. Boone Pickens' sails
Anti-science conservatives must be stopped
Nuclear bomb
Why gas is so expensive
Winds of change
Turn down that thermostat, permanently
So long, John -- gas is $4 a gallon
Ask the pilot
The car of the future is here
Gone with the wind
Let's call the coal thing off
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