Energy and Environment
December 14, 2009 -
Exxon Mobil has spent millions of dollars to sow confusion over the reality and urgency of global warming -- but that didn't stop the U.S. government from giving the Texas-based oil giant a $3 billion taxpayer-financed subsidy on the cusp of international climate talks.
December 11, 2009 -
The nuclear power industry's efforts to promote new reactors as a solution to climate change is inspiring creative protests by environmentalists.
December 9, 2009 -
Attendees of the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen will get a chance to watch a new Google video about the effort to stop mountaintop removal mining on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia and to build a wind farm there instead. The environmental advocates at iLoveMountains.org are asking people to watch the video -- which uses innovative new Google Earth technology -- and send it along to friends and family.
December 8, 2009 -
In yesterday's televised announcement of the landmark Environmental Protection Agency ruling that greenhouse gases threaten health and the environment and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Administrator Lisa Jackson remarked that more has been done to tackle the problem of global warming in the past 11 months than was done over the last eight years.
December 7, 2009 -
An Associated Press story from yesterday gives props to the grassroots movement against mountaintop removal, a particularly destructive form of mining that involves blowing up Appalachian peaks to get to the coal below.
December 4, 2009 -
The public does not have access to information about more than 70 coal ash