Oof. Only 10 percent of people the Labor Department trained for green jobs have found work.

Using solar energy to extract oil must be the ultimate example of greenwashing.

In Afghanistan, networking generators together can relieve 7,900 fuel trucks of their duties and keep soldiers from risking their lives to bring oil into the country.

India's accusing Monsanto of biopiracy for stealing eggplant and creating a GM version without permission.

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America's not the only country guilty of underwriting fossil fuel consumption: In 2010, subsidies lowered fuel prices by $110 billion more than they did in 2009, according to the International Energy Agency.

The Texas drought could last for almost another decade.