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Message to World Bank: Clean does not equal coal
Andrew Leonard
Congress cuts funding for the Bank's Clean Technology Fund. Planet sighs with relief.
Is shaving five minutes off that trip to the airport worth it?
Andrew Leonard
Stimulus money will make it easier for affluent Californians to get to the airport. But everyone else will be stuck in traffic.
Obama’s timid liberalism
Michael Lind
Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?
Breeding ground
Salon Staff
How many kids is too many? Members of Salon's Table Talk community have their say this week.
Obama’s first stab at fighting climate change
Andrew Leonard
Critics are already pointing out that the president's cap-and-trade plan might be aiming too low. But it's a start.
Fission here, fission now
Andrew Leonard
Italy breaks a 20-year ban on new nuclear power. Could a cap-and-trade system encourage the U.S. to also hop on the radioactive bandwagon?
Why a war crimes fact-finding commission could uniquely enable prosecutions
Glenn Greenwald
Senate Democrats insist that the investigations they seek are not intended to spawn prosecutions. But they may not be able to control that.
Whalin’ Palin
Katharine Mieszkowski
She may be off the national stage, but the Republican empress continues to ravage America's great wilderness state. Her latest target? Beluga whales.
Hey buddy, can you spare a nuclear reactor loan guarantee?
Andrew Leonard
The new energy secretary, Steven Chu, wants to spend money, fast. But on what?
Watching Republicans grieve
Mark Schone
Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi journeyed into the heart of the GOP for her new HBO documentary. She discusses what she found there: Denial, depression and a whole lot of anger.
David Brooks reveals the mentality of the Beltway journalist
Glenn Greenwald
The NYT columnist excoriates Obama for criticizing Washington sleaze and, worse, for failing to treat his own campaign commitments as empty, meaningless "blather" designed to pacify the citizenry.
Obama’s EPA fires a warning shot at polluters
Andrew Leonard
It's time for coal-fired power plant operators to clean up their act. There's a new sheriff in town.
The new Great Communicator … isn’t
Joan Walsh
Obama is stumbling in the stimulus debate -- and public support is dropping -- because for 30 years Republicans have lied about the role of government. Now he's got to tell the truth.
Obama’s hopes Daschled
Mike Madden
His ties to the former senator may have blinded him to potential ethics problems -- but in the end, the president takes the blame.
The real fight starts after the stimulus is enacted
Robert Reich
We can't fix the economy in the long term without significant public investment.
Watching Bill Clinton work his magic at Davos
Joe Conason
His rock-star status among world leaders, at a time when America's reputation is in tatters, shows the former president is a major asset to Barack Obama.
Increasing even-handedness in the Middle East
Glenn Greenwald
There are some preliminary signs of positive changes in America's approach to the Middle East, and few things are as important as ensuring that continues.
Blowing away King Coal
Jeff Biggers
Can a scrawny young wind-power activist topple the biggest, dirtiest industry in West Virginia?
The new Republican credo: “No, we can’t”
Andrew Leonard
The stimulus plan won't work, declares a discredited and marginalized GOP. But whether they like it or not, action is on the agenda.
Mexico’s brisk appetite for climate change clunkers
Andrew Leonard
For three years the U.S. sent a torrent of used cars south of the border. Both sides benefited, but the world's atmosphere took a hit
Obama to California: Just do it!
Andrew Leonard
After eight years of obstruction from the White House and Detroit, the fight to restrict greenhouse gas emissions finally gets started, for real
Real science comes to Washington
Joseph Romm
Myopic conservatives and the media still don't get global warming. But if anybody can preserve a livable climate, Obama's amazing energy team can.
Hoping for more than hope
David Sirota
Despite the joy brought by Obama's inauguration, it was only natural to experience a twinge of anxiety while celebrating at the edge of an abyss.
The tortoise and the sun
Katharine Mieszkowski
It's a showdown among environmentalists out West, where proposed solar-energy plants threaten the desert ecosystem.
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