Campaigning in Craig, Colorado yesterday, Mitt Romney’s campaign claimed that no clean energy jobs exist in the state — even though the Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are more than...
by Jessica Goad A new study released today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finds that in three regions, homes sited close to national wildlife refuges have a higher value than those that are fu...
I’m drawn to “boring” ways to change energy use: things like daylighting, reducing packaging, and making company supply-chains more efficient. Without these methods to help reduce o...
Photo by Walter Disney The International Energy Agency has a new report out, Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas. Unfortunately, the IEA buried the lede — the Golden Age of Gas scenario destro...
by Tom Perriello and Richard Caperton Yesterday, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney revealed that underneath his tough talk on China, he is ready to concede the clean energy race and futur...
A crowded encampment on Everest. Mount Everest has become a microcosm for the rest of the planet. Once an isolated place for adventurers, the mountain is now extremely crowded, polluted, and facing d...
by Jane Dale Owen Although few people will even know about it, one of the most powerful corporations in the world is meeting in Dallas today. How shareholders vote on resolutions in that meeting is c...
A round-up of the top climate and energy news. Please post other links below. Toyota’s Prius, a niche oddity when it went on sale 15 years ago, was the world’s third best-selling car line in the firs...
by Brad Johnson, campaign manager of Forecast the Facts LKQ, an auto-parts company that had been a major contributor to the Heartland Institute, has decided to end their association with climate deni...
by Jessica Goad Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney campaigned in Craig, Colorado this morning, where he slammed the Obama administration for its energy policies. Romney implied i...
Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is entrusted with maintaining the balance between business interests and the delicate ecology of Florida’s precious wetlands. But in the last se...
The Romney campaign released yet another ad today on Solyndra and the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program. Romney’s ad repeats the same half-truths and lies about stimulus fundi...
The U.S. is being pummeled by a climate system on steroids. For the year to date, new heat records continue to beat cold records by a staggering 14.7 to 1, which trumps the pace of the last decade by...
Gas prices may have dipped in the weeks leading up to the Memorial Day weekend, but consumers are still responding to high gas prices. According to a new poll from Consumer Reports, 37 percent of Ame...
by Adam James As concerns mount over the accessibility and quality of meals in cities, urban agriculture is becoming a practical solution to give communities more choice — all while helping add...
by Robert Stavins, via An Economic View of the Environment Debate continues in the United States, Europe, and throughout the world about whether the forces of the marketplace can be harnessed in the ...
A round-up of the top climate and energy news. Please post other links below. German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at ful...
Even though people keep using the famous simile — “the fatally slow human response to climate change makes us like a slowly boiling frog” — it is not quite right. As Wikipedia puts it, German physiol...
The worst direct impacts to humans from our unsustainable use of energy — over the next few decades — will, I think, be Dust-Bowlification and extreme weather and food insecurity: Hell an...
by Ned L. Harvey, via Rocky Mountain Institute Over the weekend I read a blog post by author Nicholas Carr describing what he calls the hierarchy of innovation. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about ...
by Daniel J. Weiss, Jackie Weidman and Celine Ramstein Memorial Day weekend is an opportunity to remember and honor the countless sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform in order to protect t...
Last month, the White House edited climate change from Obama’s Earth Day 2012 proclamation. That was after the President omitted any discussion of climate change from his State of the Union add...
by Dan Lashof, via NRDC’s Switchboard NRDC released a report [this week] projecting that more than 150,000 additional Americans could die by the end of this century due to excessive heat caused...
by KC Golden, via Getting a Grip Coal export proponents like to argue that, climate-wise, it doesn’t matter: Asia will burn the same amount of coal regardless of whether we ship it from the Northwest...
by Molly Rauch, via Moms Clean Air Force Yesterday I pulled a red wagon through the streets of Washington, DC, my hometown. Inside the wagon were more than 8,000 comments from Moms Clean Air Force me...
JR: I’m a big fan of narratives and their rhetorical cousins, extended metaphors, as I discuss in my forthcoming book. This video is a must-see for those who want to be better communicators. by...
by Michael Conathan Earlier this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual “Status of Stocks” report to Congress outlining the overall health of our nation’s fish...
Last month, President Obama edited climate change from his Earth Day 2012 proclamation. That was after omitting any discussion of climate change from his State of the Union address. But then, in a Ro...
A penny for your cyber-thoughts. NOTE: How about crowd-sourcing some real pennies for cartoonist, Stephanie McMillan, who has given me permission to reprint her cartoons. Here’s the link to Paypal: C...
API President Jack Gerard by Lee Fang, via the Republic Report When oil companies need help in Washington, they call Jack Gerard. But in January of next year, assuming he wins the presidency, Mitt Ro...
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