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Fair Trade gasoline

You know where your coffee beans come from -- so why not your gasoline? Did your $3.50 a gallon go to prop up our tar-sands-addicted frenemies in Canada?

Christopher Mims Culture February 16, 2012

Meet a pesticide even conventional vegetable farmers fear

If a new round of genetically engineered corn is approved, it will be bred to withstand huge quantities of 2,4-D, a pesticide that has the potential to drift and kill vegetables in fields as far as two miles away.

Tom Laskawy Food and Agriculture April 26, 2012

Useful insights, faulty analysis in new book on rising energy use

David Owen's new book The Conundrum tries to make the case that increased energy efficiency only leads to increased consumption -- but is he cherry-picking his supporting data?

A.C.E.E.E. Energy February 8, 2012

Etch A Sketchy: Romney used to favor high gas prices

In 2006, Romney supported high gas prices as a way to discourage consumption. He's since hit the reset button on that talking point, too.

Stephen Lacey Energy March 22, 2012

Boehner bombs: House speaker fails on transportation bill

With just hours left before a congressional holiday, it looks like House Speaker John Boehner, rather than accepting a bipartisan compromise, has opted to do nothing about the nation's roads.

Greg Hanscom Cities March 28, 2012

No end in sight for the GOP’s holiday-from-reality primaries

As long as Mitt Romney fails to clinch his nomination, we'll be talking about all the wrong things.

Scott Rosenberg Politics March 6, 2012

You can make fuel cells out of cockroaches

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have figured out how to make cockroaches into creepy-crawly batteries. Finally, living in filth...

Jess Zimmerman Energy February 7, 2012

10-year-old discovers new energy-storing molecule by accident

Fifth-grader Clara Lazen was just messing around with a molecule modeling kit in class, trying to construct a stable molecule...

Jess Zimmerman Climate & Energy February 3, 2012

Fighting coal export terminals: It matters

The fate of the U.S. coal industry hinges on its ability to increase exports to China and India. If activists can quash coal export terminals, they can hobble the coal industry.

David Roberts Energy May 1, 2012

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