President Barack Obama will not go down as the president who saved us from climate change. He won’t even go down as the president who inspired us to national action on climate change. He’s no Al Gore. But Obama has continued to take incremental steps to do what he can about the problem, over the… Keep reading →
The New York Attorney General investigation of Exxon is powerful, but it’s not magical.
Shell loses, but everybody wins.
“First, it must be stated that a true right of the environment does exist, and for two reasons: First, because we human beings are part of the environment, we live in communion with it since the environment itself entails ethical limits which human activity must acknowledge and respect. Man, for all of his remarkable gifts… Keep reading →
The New York State Supreme Court has struck down a City ban of polystyrene containers. The ban was supported by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the Court found that the City didn’t fully look into the market for recycling the “soft foam” containers instead of banning them outright. You can get pretty… Keep reading →
If you haven’t been following “DieselGate” then you haven’t been following the end of an American fuel source. Diesel, clean or otherwise, is not coming back as a thing that is allowed to power our cars. Not in America, not in Europe, not after this. Volkswagen has killed it forever. The scandal is pretty simple:… Keep reading →
Who will save us from our air?
Regulation saves lives.
Sarah Palin wants to run the Department of Energy just to watch it die.
Peabody Energy needs a new PR strategy.
