Obama’s Climate Regulations: A Step in the Right Direction, but Nowhere Close to What We Need Obama’s Climate Regulations: A Step in the Right Direction, but Nowhere Close to What We Need
How about a 40 percent cut by 2030 based on 1990 levels?
Jun 4, 2014 / Editorial / The Editors
Why Is It Illegal to Export American Oil? Why Is It Illegal to Export American Oil?
Some companies want the ban dropped.
Jun 4, 2014 / Editorial / Simon Davis-Cohen
Here’s What Anyone Who Cares About the Planet Needs to Know About the EPA’s New Regulations Here’s What Anyone Who Cares About the Planet Needs to Know About the EPA’s New Regulations
The Obama administration’s new targets to reduce carbon emissions are a step in the right direction, but we need to demand much more.
Jun 4, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard
Welcome to West Port Arthur, Texas, Ground Zero in the Fight for Climate Justice Welcome to West Port Arthur, Texas, Ground Zero in the Fight for Climate Justice
If you live in a toxic environment like this, surrounded by refineries, you’re probably not thinking about some future apocalypse. You’re living in one.
Jun 3, 2014 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
The GOP Is Freaking Out Over the EPA’s Carbon Rules. Why Aren’t Power Companies? The GOP Is Freaking Out Over the EPA’s Carbon Rules. Why Aren’t Power Companies?
Not all energy interests are apoplectic about the EPA’s plan to limit carbon emissions from existing power plants.
Jun 2, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Renewable Energy Foes Poised to Return Ohio to ‘the Dark Ages’ Renewable Energy Foes Poised to Return Ohio to ‘the Dark Ages’
A bill to block renewable energy standards is the product of an aggressive campaign by conservative groups to undermine laws that encourage the development of clean energy.
May 29, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets the Developing World for Future Profits Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets the Developing World for Future Profits
An increase in carbon sales to non-OECD countries will help create a humanitarian catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions.
May 27, 2014 / Michael T. Klare
Is Climate Change a Crime Against Humanity? Is Climate Change a Crime Against Humanity?
Think of climate change as a WMD on a particularly long fuse, already lit and there for any of us to see.
May 22, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt
Can Big Oil Retake Richmond, California? Can Big Oil Retake Richmond, California?
In 2008, progressives won control of City Hall. Now, as elections loom, Chevron wants to take it back.
May 21, 2014 / Cities Rising / Steve Early
The Two Faces of Climate Change on the ‘Washington Post’ Op-Ed Page The Two Faces of Climate Change on the ‘Washington Post’ Op-Ed Page
Eric with the latest reviews and Reed on the media and climate change.
May 13, 2014 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson