Latest Articles

New Jersey officials call temporary halt to new work on vital rail links

About 45 million New Jerseyans rode N.J. Transit trains last year. Does N.J. Gov. Chris Christie care about the future of the system that serves them?

Fish kill whodunnit in Gulf: Is Big Ag or Big Oil the perp?

A sickening massacre of fish has nearly paved a Louisiana waterway with dead bodies. There are two likely suspects, and probably neither will be brought to justice.

This green doesn't want McCain back, thanks

In Politico, Darren Samuelsohn says "greens want their McCain back." I don't know if I qualify as a "green," but I can say with great vigor and certainty that I do not want my McCain back, or anyone's McCain for that matter. It's not clear how many greens are supposed to feel this way beyond Republicans for Environmental Protection (the only entity more desperate for a conservative date to the dance than John Kerry), but for those that do, listen carefully: he's just not that into you.

Welcome to the real climate war: Big Oil versus the Terminator

The big news is the upset victory of Tea Partier Christine O'Donnell in Delaware. But the real war over climate change is being waged in the states.

Ezra Klein makes lame case for industrial food

Are industrial farms the way forward? Washington Post pundit Ezra Klein thinks so. Shockingly, Tom Philpott disagrees.

Now all GOP Senate candidates deny global warming

The one GOP Senate candidate who supported climate action was knocked out in Delaware's primary on Tuesday by Christine O'Donnell, a Tea Partier and "cap-and-tax" critic.

Where do library books go when they die?

A creative way to recycle books that are ready to checkout for good.

Feds target energy efficiency scofflaws

The Department of Energy is enforcing its own energy efficiency and water standards for products from light bulbs to shower heads, siting 27 companies

Death by McDonald's [VIDEO]

A group of U.S. doctors has a morbid new ad aimed at taking a bite out of Americans' fatal attraction to fast food. Watch the short ad.

Texas and three other states threaten to sue California over AB 32

Texas and three other states with attorneys general beholden to Dirty Oil have vowed to sue California as a last-ditch effort to kill AB 32.