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Winds of change
Joseph Romm
The U.S. can greatly boost clean wind power for 2 cents a day. Now all we need is a president who won't blow the chance.
How will Barack Obama get to 270?
Paul Maslin
This November, a Democratic victory will probably hinge on the Electoral College votes of a handful of swing states. Howard Dean's pollster examines 17 fall battlegrounds, one by one.
Celebrate clean coal, come on!
Diane Silver
The coal industry has turned up the heat on its ad campaign and apparently McCain, Clinton and Obama are buying.
McCain: “Facts of global warming demand our urgent attention”
Alex Koppelman
In a speech, the presumptive Republican nominee laid out his views on global warming and the environment, prompting criticism from left and right.
The peak oil culture wars
Andrew Leonard
Do conservatives oppose conservation because they don't like taking the bus? Or because they're terrified that those dirty hippies were right all along?
Peak oil explains lack of UFOs
Andrew Leonard
Why is there no evidence of alien space-faring civilizations? Maybe it's because the cost of jet-fuel got too high
Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus
Andrew Leonard
But it's not just the dismal scientists she is disavowing with her charges of oil market manipulation.
Poison ice
Elizabeth Grossman
As the sea ice melts, a toxic stew of mercury and synthetic chemicals is seeping into the Arctic food web, harming the area's people. We may be next.
The gas tax battle continues
Alex Koppelman
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sparred Tuesday over Clinton's -- and John McCain's -- support for a summer holiday from federal gas taxes.
Is humanity running out of technological tricks?
Andrew Leonard
Paul Krugman argues that scientific progress may not help us escape our energy dilemma. But maybe we're just not trying hard enough?
Turn down that thermostat, permanently
Michael T. Klare
In the new world order, energy scarcity will dominate our lives -- determining when we drive, if we travel, and what we eat.
Your very own climate change Victory Garden
Andrew Leonard
Michael Pollan urges us all to grow our own veggies. But farming is work -- ask any peasant
FedEx bets on the California sunshine
Andrew Leonard
But what's the company going to do when it absolutely, positively has to offset its humongous carbon footprint?
The oil seesaw
Andrew Leonard
Demand in the U.S. falls for the third straight quarter. But China's thirstier than ever, and it isn't alone.
Let’s dump “Earth Day”
Joseph Romm
Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves.
McCain’s gassy tax relief
Katharine Mieszkowski
An economics and transportation expert evaluates the presidential hopeful's plan to suspend the gas tax: "It's a terrible idea."
How not to prepare for peak oil
Andrew Leonard
Russia, Nigeria, Mexico: Please open your arms to foreign oil companies so we can pump out your black gold even faster
George Bush and the Neanderthals
Andrew Leonard
A German politician says mean things about the president's climate change policies. But why did he have to drag innocent Paleolithic hominids into the mix?
The brighter side of $115 a barrel crude
Andrew Leonard
How can high oil prices, which encourage more burning of a coal, be a good thing? The answer lies in the European Union's Emissions Trading System
Bush’s lame-duck climate change proposal
Andrew Leonard
Pity the poor president: How do you become a leader in fighting greenhouse gas emissions after spending seven years pretending the problem doesn't exist?
Criminals of the world, unite and take over
Laura Miller
In "McMafia," author Misha Glenny takes us on a startling tour of the new international underworld, documenting the hidden costs of an unregulated global free market.
Al Gore, Cabinet minister for climate issues?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Obama says, given the chance, he'd hire the former vice president.
“An inclusive and sustainable globalization”
Andrew Leonard
Robert Zoellick debuts a new World Bank campaign slogan
The sun blotted out from the sky
Elizabeth Svoboda
Global warming demands more than do-gooder actions. It demands "geoengineering" -- like blocking the sun's rays with stratospheric dirt.
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