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Whenever you feel discouraged about climate change deniers, watch this video.
Patriot Coal has agreed to a deal to stop mountaintop-removal mining, which the company says "will result in a reduction of our environmental footprint."
In the energy world, centralized technologies and institutions are giving way to dispersed, networked, small-scale solutions. It's exciting.
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.
The president has proposed adding more than 2,700 square miles to a marine sanctuary off the coast of Northern California. Otters rejoice.
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.
Last May, the department suggested new regulations by the end of 2012. No longer.
Seeking to drill in a disputed region controlled by Kurds, one battle has already erupted over fuel.
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.