Robert S. Eshelman | The Nation

Will direct action against big polluters prove more successful than Capitol Hill–based attempts to fight climate change?

Is the nation's best public park system poised to become an enormous gas field?

Environmentalists chalk up wins on the ground, putting coal companies on the defensive.

As Copenhagen kicks off, pressing questions about emissions cuts and financing for poor countries to deal with climate change are already on the table.

The most important international summit in history? Given what latest scientific reports tell us about the quickening pace of global warming, the sense of urgency driving attention to the Copenhagen summit is warranted.

Promising local initiatives are pointing the way forward for national policy.

In heavily fortified Pittsburgh, protesters are kept isolated from local residents and from conference attendees.

Climate change groups occupy a central place among G-20 protests in Pittsburgh.

Even permitted demonstrators are subjected to unconstitutional search and seizure at the gathering of world leaders.

The mayor's budget plan would close libraries. The people say, Think again.