The US Export-Import Bank has decided not to fund the Thai Binh Two coal-fired power plant in Vietnam. This is a marginally good sign that the Obama Administration's rejection of coal that he set out in his climate change speech will have real life benefits....
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If you haven't read this Rolling Stone piece on the forthcoming erasure of Miami and all of south Florida from the face of the Earth because of rising sea levels,.
I agree with Zoe Carpenter here. If President Obama is serious about fighting climate change through clamping down on coal, he has to deal with the coal industry's plans to.
I'm in Oaxaca, Mexico for the month so I shouldn't care about the crazy weather in the United States so far this summer (the high today here was 75). But I can't help it. The weather is so insane in the U.S. Again. Climate change:...
Kind of an unfortunate day for Obama's climate change speech, not that it is his fault. I'll distract my attention from my outrage at the overturning of a huge part.
Ezra Klein sums up what the future will almost certainly say about the Obama Administration and these so-called scandals Republicans are so desperately clinging to like a piece of driftwood.
Jonathan Chait makes an interesting argument for Obama as "the environmental president," but I think it is the wrong question to ask. Chait's argument is that despite the failure of the 2010 cap and trade bill, the almost certain approval of the Keystone XL pipeline,...
Pierce pretty much sums up my feelings about Obama's clear support for the Keystone XL pipeline and the broader failure of this nation to do anything at all about climate.
The Obama Administration Obama Administration's appointees in the State Department announces its approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline at 4 pm on Sequester Friday. How brave. Disaster for the climate..
On Tuesday, the AFL-CIO gave tacit support for building the Keystone XL Pipeline, a very disappointing development for many involved in the climate movement, as well for some of the federation's constituent unions that had fought the building trades over whether labor should support it....
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times continues his climate trolling, this time complaining about people just being so unreasonable about climate change: But on the Keystone XL pipeline –.
U.S. carbon emissions keep slowly falling, down to levels not seen since 1994, despite a lot more people in this country. I'm probably a bit more skeptical about the long-term.