Climate Climate & Energy

Republicans: We must protect children from energy efficiency

Republican Rep. Sandy Adams wants to limit funding for Department of Energy websites that educate kids about efficiency. She doesn't know how much money that will save, but by god, we must stop children learning at any cost!

Me, talking about the conservatism of the power industry

David Roberts and his beard sat down to chat with the folks at EnergyNow about a Black & Veatch survey of utility executives.

GOP introduces slash-and-burn budget for the environment

The Tea Party bill includes major funding cuts for climate protection and axes protections for air, water, and land.

Bachmann: Energy is 'the most easy problem for America to solve'

During a campaign event this past weekend, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered up her solution to the energy crisis.

How to solve car emissions, hunger, and overpopulation simultaneously

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has a modest proposal.

Top 10 greenest cities in North America

It seems like we get a new list of greenest, most climate-change-prepared, most bike-friendly etc. cities every week or so. But we never really get tired of looking at these rankings, and checking them against each other to decide where we should fantasize about moving. Today, it's a list of the top greenest cities in North America from Siemens and the Economist Intelligence Unit. This ranking takes into account carbon emissions, land use, transportation, energy usage, buildings, water and air quality, waste, and environmental governance.

Drumroll please for the top 10:

Critical List: Texas drought is a natural disaster; climate change causes extreme weather

After months of drought, the federal government declared 213 counties in Texas natural disasters.

Even if wildfires stay clear of Los Alamos, burning trees and heated soil contaminated with residual radiation from old nuclear tests could be a problem.

Here's the scientific explanation for why extreme weather can be connected to climate change.

Critical List: Global warming — it's happening; Exxon funds climate deniers

In case you hadn’t heard … the world is warming up.

Exxon just can't quit climate deniers.

The Supreme Court thinks that the EPA must regulate carbon under the Clean Air Act; now it will decide if it can regulate wetlands on private property under the Clean Water Act.

Critical List: Wildfire threatens Los Alamos; a sweet electric bike

In Arizona, the wildfire is at the edge of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which has radioactive materials and other nasty stuff on the premises. It’s all safety stored, the government says. We’re also being told that everything’s cool at that nuclear plant in Nebraska that’s knee-deep in the flooded Mississippi.

China's going to run out of water within 30 years at current rates of consumption.

More people want their own personal wind turbine, but it's not a status symbol. Yet.

Prepare for a world energy war

Reliance on fossil fuels could lead to 30 years of bloodshed as world powers fight over limited resources.