Environmental Issues

Can Washington Stand Up to the Energy Industry? Can Washington Stand Up to the Energy Industry?

Mopping up BP's current crisis and guarding against future environmental incidents will take more momentum than a speech, a meeting or a few hearings can deliver.

Jun 18, 2010 / Sarah Laskow

Onshore Drilling Disasters Waiting to Happen: An Interview With ‘Gasland’ Director Josh Fox

Onshore Drilling Disasters Waiting to Happen: An Interview With ‘Gasland’ Director Josh Fox Onshore Drilling Disasters Waiting to Happen: An Interview With ‘Gasland’ Director Josh Fox

In 2008, a gas company offered Josh Fox $100,000 to lease his family's land for natural gas extraction. His new documentary Gasland explores the environmental devastation "hyd...

Jun 17, 2010 / Nora Eisenberg

The Power of the Presidency The Power of the Presidency

Since the president had no legal basis to demand the set aside, on what basis did he extract $20 billion from BP?

Jun 17, 2010 / Laura Flanders

We Need to Build a Cleaner Economy, So Let’s Do It We Need to Build a Cleaner Economy, So Let’s Do It

On Morning Joe, Katrina vanden Heuvel defends President Obama by saying that his White House speech Tuesday night was humane, but "we need deeds."

Jun 17, 2010 / MSNBC

Kick Ass or Buy Gas?

Kick Ass or Buy Gas? Kick Ass or Buy Gas?

How taxpayers are subsidizing BP's disaster through the Pentagon.

Jun 17, 2010 / Nick Turse

Retreat to Subsistence Retreat to Subsistence

Could the introduction of genetically modified genes into Mexico's landrace corns lead to their extinction?

Jun 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby

Shill, Baby, Shill

Shill, Baby, Shill Shill, Baby, Shill

How BP’s disarmingly charming ten-year-long ad campaign helped get us into this mess.

Jun 14, 2010 / Leslie Savan

Learning from Roosevelt(s) Learning from Roosevelt(s)

Obama could don the mantle of two Roosevelts at once.

Jun 8, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Hot Plate: An Interview With Anna Lappé

Hot Plate: An Interview With Anna Lappé Hot Plate: An Interview With Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé, author of Diet for a Hot Planet, dishes on connections between what we eat and our warming planet.

Jun 8, 2010 / Tom Philpott

Gambling With Global Warming Gambling With Global Warming

Noam Chomsky and environmentalist Bill McKibben discuss the numbers game the mainstream media is playing with climate change science.

Jun 4, 2010 / On The Earth Productions

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