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On Keystone XL permit approval, though, he punts.
Cities like Oakland, Calif., are learning galleries and high-end coffee shops can't solve violence, poverty, and other inner-city problems. And when climate change hits hard, they may hurt more than help.
With a key tax credit for the wind industry due to expire on Dec. 31, the main wind advocacy group says a phaseout of the credit would be OK.
In his State of the State address, Cuomo calls for $1 billion in green-economy funds, an electric-car charging network, and a tighter CO2 cap.
The president has proposed adding more than 2,700 square miles to a marine sanctuary off the coast of Northern California. Otters rejoice.
By doubling its local-food purchasing in 2012, Bozeman's Community Food Co-op joins the growing ranks of institutions around the country successfully connecting eaters with local farms.
In the energy world, centralized technologies and institutions are giving way to dispersed, networked, small-scale solutions. It's exciting.
The president spent his first four years lining up a promising urban policy agenda. Now it’s time for a full-court press for smart growth.
A reader wonders if it’s unethical to hang on to Big Oil stocks, and if shareholder activism does any good. Umbra offers some centsible advice.
