Paving the Way to 60 Miles per Gallon
The Obama administration’s new fuel efficiency standards will reduce our addiction to oil, curb carbon pollution, create jobs, and save consumers money at the pump.
Tar Sands Pipeline Goes Beyond Even the Usual Environmental Stupidity — And That’s Why We Really Need to Fight Back
Here’s three reasons why the pipeline is truly idiotic and why I’m willing to get arrested to stop it.
Pay Attention to Climate Change, Even if It’s Bad for Business
Leaving little to chance, corporations have purchased politicians, media, advertising, think tanks, and meteorologists.
Capital Is a Fickle Lover
Although China still attracts major foreign investment, fears that its model will not last have prompted capital flows to other rising countries like Brazil and Indonesia.
Effects of Resource Extraction on Human Rights in Chad
An illustration of the problems that arise when poor nations try to leverage oil and gas production within the confines of the global economic order.
No Fracking Way
In addition to poisoning our water, homes, and bodies, fracking is eroding the quality of life in rural America.
Seven Innovative Mechanisms of Development Finance
As governments look for new options for public revenue stream, this table by IPS Global Economy project director Sarah Anderson shows which options can be considered, their potential revenue, and their administrative and political feasibility.
Obama’s Dirty Energy Fixation
As radioactivity levels continue to spike in Fukushima, Obama’s support for nuclear power is unwavering.
The No-Doctrine President
Bush had a doctrine, Nixon had a doctrine, even Jimmy Carter had a doctrine. Why doesn’t Obama?
An Unprecedented Attack from Polluters
The House has passed a devastating budget plan that would destroy bedrock safeguards that have protected our health and environment for decades.
SOTU: Parsing Obama’s ‘Clean Energy’ Promises
The sound of the president’s silence on climate change and the BP oil disaster was deafening.
Our Slow-Motion Global Accident
Industry simply doesn’t have an incentive to kick its fossil fuel habit.
Energy Beast Still Running Wild
It’s easier for Wall Street to keep milking current fossil and agricultural fuel subsidies.
Monumental Wilderness
President Barack Obama can protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the clutches of the oil industry by designating it a National Monument.