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Here are some lessons learned from the perspective of someone who spent the last few years trying to push a real bill through the real Congress.
China's growing appetite for meat -- and its rapid conversion to U.S.-style industrial meat production -- may prove just as damaging to the climate as its growing proliferation of cars. The only winners will be U.S. exporters of cheap corn and cheap pork.
Even opponents of birth control are “going green” these days. The uber-right-wing American Life League, founded by Catholic activists in...
The tragic oil spill in the Gulf has led me to look at the Oil Pollution Act, which Congress passed...
Question #1: Who has done more to build the 21st century climate movement, Al Gore or Bill McKibben? ...
Zombie senators will gut your laws and eat your brains!kzamani via Flickr Creative CommonsDoes the Senate climate bill tie the...
Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. Economics is critical to getting decent climate legislation passed, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman...
Are locavores wrong in thinking they're helping to save the planet, as a recent NYT op-ed challenged? Experts James McWilliams, Anna Lappe, and others weigh in.
In June 1983, Newark’s close knit Ironbound community was overrun by investigators in Hazmat suits after EPA officials found dioxin...