Solar-Powered Friars
The pope could inspire a green energy revolution among faith communities.
Taking Our Sweet Crude Time
World leaders are resolving to stop cooking the planet after they’re dead.
Relying on Coal for Electricity is Destroying Appalachia
The coal economy amounts to a major stumbling block for Appalachia, home to some of America’s poorest communities.
Faking It While the World Burns
Words alone won’t hinder climate change.
An Open Letter to Obama: If You Want Money for the Climate, Tax Wall Street
An innovative new tax could fund climate transition and help rebuild the social safety net. So why is the White House knocking it?
Virginia Is for Dirty-Energy Lovers
Dominion is skimping on solar and wind as it aims to build a fracked-gas pipeline and another nuclear reactor.
Why Obama’s Climate Change Proposal Falls Short
Emission targets proposed by the Obama administration are insufficient to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.
Talk Climate to Me
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s henchmen punish staffers who utter the words “climate change.”
Hogan’s Maryland: Open for Big Business
Maryland’s welcome signs should read open for ‘big’ business under Gov. Hogan.
Edison’s Bright Idea
The inventor wished the sun could power his inventions.
World Capital of Weather Wimps
When the going gets cold, make the most of it.
Big Coal Catches Black Lung
Companies large and small are hurtling toward bankruptcy.
State of the Empire in 2015
Before Obama’s State of the Union address falls out of the news cycle, here are the foreign policy tidbits you need to remember.
New Pipeline Threatens Portland’s Emission Goals
The Canadian Pembina Pipeline Corporation hopes to build a propane export facility in Portland that would export 37,000 barrels a day to Asia.
The Games of Our Lives
Can video games crowdsource more democratic solutions to the world’s problems?