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Tadeusz Patzek on America's Energy Future: 'We're Cornering Ourselves' (Renewable Energy, World)

Why is United States in an especially precarious position when it comes to energy?

The Nation and On The Earth Productions
The Great Carbon Bubble (Climate Change)

Why the fossil fuel industry fights so hard.

Bill McKibben
Will the Koch Brothers Profit from Keystone XL? (Environmental Issues, Congress, Sustainable Development)

Why are the Koch Brothers so reluctant to testify before Congress?

Brave New Films
The Nebraska Sandhills
Transpartisan Politics on the Plains (Environmental Issues, Environmental Activism)

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

Madeline Ostrander
Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government (Climate Change, Government)

The coming big storms facing our planet can only be tackled by strong governments.

Christian Parenti
10 comments
Vermont Yankee power plant
Vermont vs. Vermont Yankee (Environmental Issues, Radioactive Waste and Contamination)

Should states or the rubber-stamp NRC decide whether nuclear plants continue to operate?

Michael Blanding
2 comments
Compassion Is Our New Currency (Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street, Activism, World)

Notes on 2011’s preoccupied hearts and minds.

Rebecca Solnit
The Four Occupations of Planet Earth (Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street, World)

How the occupied became the occupiers.

Tom Engelhardt
Climate change protesters
Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Ran the Show (Climate Change)

Thanks to a new and frightening breed of climate denier, our chances of avoiding catastrophe just got worse.

Mark Hertsgaard
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The Greatest Water Crisis in the History of Civilization (Environmental Issues, Environment, Society)

If you live just about anywhere in the American West, you or your children and grandchildren could soon enough be facing the Age of Thirst.

William deBuys
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Blogs

Senate to Investigate Texas Plant Explosion
George Zornick

Why won't the EPA regulate ammonium nitrate? Barbara Boxer wants to know.

April 30, 2013
RISD Students Stage First Fossil Fuel Divestment Sit-In
StudentNation

Student activists are demanding that President Maeda endorse divestment from the coal, gas, and oil industries and commit to presenting the case for divestment to the Board of Trustees at the board’s May 17 meeting.

April 29, 2013
One Movement Against Keystone XL
Peter Rothberg

On April 18, people converged in Nebraska to speak out about the Keystone XL Pipeline at the State Department's only public comment session.

April 24, 2013
How the Climate Reform Effort Was Poisoned From the Inside [EDITORS' NOTE ADDED ON 4/30/13]
Lee Fang

On this Earth Day, it’s worth reflecting on new disclosures that show the anti–global warming campaign was infiltrated by the opposition.

April 22, 2013
The Village Green Preservation Society
Peter Rothberg

Check out this catchy sing-along with a deadly serious goal.

April 22, 2013
Austerity, Deregulation and the Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
Lee Fang

While questions linger about how a fertilizer plant in Texas blew up, documents suggest the facility faced little regulatory oversight.

April 18, 2013
NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice
StudentNation

NYU’s Divest campaign met with senior university administrators, providing a faint glimpse of hope for a movement that’s been spreading quickly at other universities across the nation.

April 18, 2013
An Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust
StudentNation

"It is intellectually inconsistent for Harvard to invest in fossil fuel companies while our faculty publicize the consequences of inaction on climate change and continued fossil fuel use."

April 15, 2013
Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Take Action

Join Bill McKibben in signing The Nation's open letter urging Secretary Kerry to consider his legacy and to find the courage to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.

April 12, 2013
Harvard Vice President Reluctantly Accepts Signatures for Fossil Fuel Divestment
StudentNation

The Divest Harvard campaign achieved a small but not insignificant victory this morning.

April 12, 2013