Environmental Issues

People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down People, Let’s Get Our Carbon Down

From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.

Sep 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

Inside the Politics of Climate Change Inside the Politics of Climate Change

The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin discusses the prospect of climate change legislation in 2009: Will the 'ACES' bill, passed in the House, also pass the Senate?

Jul 28, 2009 / The Nation Video

The G-8 Abdicates The G-8 Abdicates

To prevent catastrophic climate change, wealthy nations must pony up on emissions cuts and subsidies to the developing world.

Jul 15, 2009 / The Editors

Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump? Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?

Is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?

Jul 14, 2009 / Feature / Michael T. Klare

Fuel Fuel

A new documentary explores how alternative and sustainable energies can reduce our country's and the world's addictive dependence on fossil fuels.

Jul 14, 2009 / Books & the Arts / YouTube

Shades of Green Shades of Green

Washington and Beijing should launch an efficiency revolution, the quickest path to large emissions cuts.

Jul 1, 2009 / Mark Hertsgaard

The Bagua Movement The Bagua Movement

Indigenous activists in Peru are challenging their government and its partners in the biofuels industry--and winning.

Jun 26, 2009 / Feature / Kelly Hearn

Iran’s Fabulous Oil…and Other Popular Fables Iran’s Fabulous Oil…and Other Popular Fables

The west was easily gulled by the promise of a new era of progress and prosperity under the Shah.

Jun 17, 2009 / Feature / A. Kessel

Tennessee Spill: Regulation Hazards Tennessee Spill: Regulation Hazards

The recent coal ash spill in Tennessee reveals the toxic fallacy that states should regulate industrial waste.

Jun 12, 2009 / Feature / Kelly Hearn

It’s Official–The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over It’s Official–The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over

For the first time, the US Energy Department has conceded that peak oil is the new norm.

Jun 11, 2009 / Feature / Michael T. Klare

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