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

After the demise of climate legislation, environment groups are going local—and confrontational.

The BP disaster could be the catalyst for an invigorated environmental movement.

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

As carbon emissions raise the planetary temperature, environmental activists are asking Nobel laureate Al Gore to engage in civil disobedience protesting construction of coal-fired power plants. He hasn't said no.

Oakland, Calif.

In the Bush era, the green movement has become a paper tiger. It must
regroup, reframe and reach out across the lines of race and class that
have kept environmental issues at the political fringe.

Our reporter visits a "a magickal, psychedelic & multi-cultural"
forest outing and asks, Are New Age, Old Religion believers an
endangered species in Born Again America?

Absent George W. Bush's undergoing a conversion like St. Paul's on the road to Damascus, there probably won't be much good environmental news out of Washington in Bush's second term.