The secret history of Earth Day

If 40 years of Earth Days have taught us anything, um … While the Earth Day movement has had undeniable...

The wonderful politics of cap-and-trade: A closer look at Waxman-Markey

The headline of this post is not meant to be ironic. Despite all the hand-wringing in the press and the...

Bolivia’s leader pushes rich nations for climate adaptation funds

President Evo Morales of Bolivia never shies away from a scuffle. He was elected as Bolivia’s first indigenous president after...

More perspectives on tax/auction revenue allocation

This post makes a point that I already made last Monday, but it bears repeating -- this time in the context of cap-and-trade.

Chaz Teplin gave some approximate numbers for how much Obama's cap-and-trade plan would raise energy prices (based on a $14.30/MT carbon price):

Effect of the Obama carbon price

• Petroleum fuel: adds 15¢/gallon
• Electricity: adds 0.8¢/kWh (compare to 7-10¢/kWh residential rates)
• Natural gas: adds 8¢/therm (compare to 85¢/therm residential rates)

The conclusion: "... energy prices would increase by about 10 percent. It's a start, but a very slow one." But that's not the whole story.

Memo to Hansen 2: Why is the country’s top anti-science blog reprinting your stuff?

I got a lot of responses to my first Memo to James Hansen on his ill-conceived and unhelpful opposition to...

Van Jones talks to Grist about his new job as Obama’s green jobs guru

It’s official: Van Jones is joining the Obama administration to be the voice of green jobs in the White House....

The ocean does represent a major source of energy, just not the one you’re thinking of

In the minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez poured 10.8 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s...

Sweden’s ozone layer thickest in decades: institute

STOCKHOLM — The ozone layer over Sweden was thicker in February than it has been in decades, the Swedish meteorological...

Confident Obama: Senate will pass climate bill, “we can do even more” than ACES’s targets

President Obama gave a very lengthy “must-read” interview to the several reporters Sunday in which he spelled out a great...