Christian Parenti: Congo Diary

• Scientific Integrity Lost on America's Parks

  Environment

  Tess Elliott: Though Ken Salazar has vowed to clean up the mess at the Interior Department, his selection for director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, only compounds it.

• EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal

  Environment

  Jeff Biggers: An important announcement suggests that environmental justice may be coming to the Appalachian coalfields.

• Shades of Green

  Environment

  Mark Hertsgaard: Washington and Beijing should launch an efficiency revolution, the quickest path to large emissions cuts.

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• Zombie Nuke Plants

  Radioactive Waste/Contamination

  Christian Parenti: Our crumbling atomic power stations and the government agency that loves them.

• Can China Catch a Cool Breeze?

  Environment

  Christian Parenti: The planet's future depends largely on the fate of China's nascent wind sector.

• Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama

  Energy

  Christian Parenti: Thirty years after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear power threat is the relicensing of old plants.