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  • Illegal logging funding Taliban attacks on U.S. troops

    In case you didn’t have enough reasons to dislike the Taliban, The Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov looks at how they’re using revenue from illegal logging to finance attacks on U.S. troops (though, via some monumentally twisted logic, the article actually blames the logging ban, rather than the Taliban forces doing the logging and profiting […]

    Glenn Hurowitz Climate & Energy

  • Is Masters champion Phil Mickelson unwittingly helping ExxonMobil greenwash its anti-science record?

    I’m interested in your thoughts on how much greenwashing this is on a scale of 1 to 10. I watch pretty much every major golf tournament. And that means that I saw some great golf played this weekend at the Masters in Augusta, Georgia, especially by the winner, Phil Mickelson. It also means I saw […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • Virginia AG mocks dangers of CO2, telling Tea Partiers to hold their breath and make the EPA happy

      On Saturday, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli attended the Powhatan Taxpayers’ Alliance Tea Party rally to address his beloved base.  Think Progress has the details of his anti-science pandering: Cuccinelli reportedly greeted the crowd by saying that it was “great to be with so many people who appreciate the Constitution” and then talked about his challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • SF keeping PACE

    The built environment is responsible for something like 72% of electricity use and ~36% of greenhouse gas emission in the US.  How to get at that chunk of embedded carbon? On Monday, the City of San Francisco launched Green Finance SF, the country’s largest Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing program.  The bonding capacity is […]

    Adam Browning Climate & Energy

  • The way to carbon neutrality

    My co-presenter at last weekend’s Carbon Neutrality Unconference, smart-guy Pete Erickson of Stockholm Environment Institute, used four slides that are worth sharing again. Taken together, they’re an excellent — if somewhat wonky way — to think about the basic structure of reducing emissions. 1. What are the cheapest reductions? (Click for larger version) This McKinsey […]

    Eric de Place Climate & Energy

  • President Must End 200 Years of Regulated Manslaughter

    At 3:30pm EST today, residents in West Virginia and across the nation will be observing a moment of silence for the fallen coal miners in last week’s Upper Big Branch mine disaster, their families, and the rescue crews. Everyone in the nation–across the 48 states that burn coal for electricity–should take this moment to consider […]

    Jeff Biggers Climate & Energy

  • What are your favorite climate and energy soundbites?

    I will be testifying in front of Congress this week.  And my book, Straight Up, is coming out the following week (click here to buy it). That means I’ll be doing a lot of media and trying to hone a simple, effective message for a far broader audience than Climate Progress readers.  I have my own […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • Sarah 'Four Pinocchios' Palin blames 'Gore-gate' for

      Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has called Palin a conservative leader on energy issues. She has also emerged as a conservative thought leader on climate science. Yesterday, at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SLRC) 2010 — “the most prominent Republican event outside of the Republican National Convention,” Palin launched into another anti-science diatribe.  Here’s the video (via TP): […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • Climate Progress wins TreeHugger's "Best Politics Website"

    “… essential reading for anyone following the politics of the green movement these days….  this is the art of blogging at its best.“ Thanks to everyone who voted for CP for TreeHugger’s Best of Green Awards. Here’s TreeHugger’s full award description of this blog:   The content Joe Romm and crew pump out on Climate Progress is unrelenting […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • Canada's Husky Energy sells 10% ethanol blend as

                Americans may not have heard of Husky Energy.  But thanks to an eagle-eyed reader up north who snapped this picture, we all get to see their uber-greenwashing effort. Here’s how “Mother Nature” makes her fuel, at least on the Bizarro world of Htrae. First, you take some heavy oil or tar […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy