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Why twenty-first century oil will break the bank—and the planet.

Costly technologies have opened up new sources in the Western Hemisphere—but they pose immense environmental dangers.

The Keystone fight showed ordinary Nebraskans their power. Will their unlikely alliance stick?

COLLEGE FINALIST: The range of options that my generation has to choose from has been whittled to a handful of bad ones. I am coming of age not in the land of the free, but in the land of the dependent.

Climate change might be more important to voters than most politicians think.

America and oil. It’s like bacon and eggs, Batman and Robin. Now, it’s a guarantee of a trip to hell in a handbasket.

Obama doesn’t have much time left to convince environmental activists that he’s worth their sweat and sacrifices in the next election.

Hundreds of people continue their nonviolent protest outside the White House, urging the president to say no to the potentially environmentally disastrous Keystone XL pipeline. 

George Zornik on the Keystone XL pipeline, Natasja Sheriff on the link between climate change and conflict and John Nichols on Dick Cheney’s new memoir

Dan Choi got arrested for protesting Keystone XL, even though climate change isn't "his" issue. This is what solidarity looks like.