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• Belly up, America!

  Coal industry flack combines chutzpah and illogic into tasty agitprop stew

  Posted 7 Sep 2010 12:34 PM By David Roberts

  In response to a recent editorial, The New York Times received a letter from Steve Miller, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a coal industry front group. It is dense with illogic and deception. Read More

• Crude conversation

  Will we ever get off oil? [AUDIO] 4

  Posted 1 Sep 2010 10:06 AM By Mary Bruno

  If the Gulf oil disaster -- the biggest oil “spill” in history -- isn’t enough to make us reconsider crude, then what will be? Oil provides nearly 40 percent of America's power, and presents a grave threat to our environment, economy, health, and national security. Is anybody out there hatching plans for a post-oil world? Our expert panel tackles whether and how we'll move beyond our fossil fuel of choice. Read More

• Lights, camera, direct action

  A call for direct action in the climate movement: we need your ideas 48

  Posted 7 Sep 2010 12:30 AM By Bill McKibben, Philip Radford, Rebecca Tarbotton

  Mass direct action must play a bigger role in the climate movement. Think about possibilities for direct action, and tell us what you come up with. Read More

• A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

  The Climate Post: Will the “dead” climate bill become a federal renewable energy standard? 12

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 4:37 PM By Christopher Mims

  Read about Sen. Lisa Murkowski's primary loss, ocean desertification, what's next for environmentalists, Chinese coal plants, and more. Read More

• boxed in

  Carly Fiorina fumbles on Prop 23 issue during California Senate debate 4

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 2:40 PM By Joseph Romm

  Poor Carly Fiorina. To make conservative ideologues happy, she has to abandon science and her previous positions on global warming and clean energy. But to win election statewide, she has to appeal to the majority of California voters. And so in her first debate with Sen. Barbara Boxer, she simply couldn't give a straightforward answer to the simple question of whether she supported the Big Oil funded Prop 23. Read More

• it wasn't me

  BP spill costs hit $8 billion as crews unearth clues

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 1:03 PM By Agence France-Presse

  BP revealed on Friday that it has so far spent $8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster. At the same time, its crews worked to retrieve key evidence about the spill from the seabed. Read More

• Petrodollars

  Koch brothers jump into Prop 23 fight 3

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 12:13 PM By Todd Woody

  A company controlled by the billionaire Koch brothers, who have bankrolled numerous right-wing causes, has donated $1 million to the campaign to pass Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would suspend the state's global-warming law. Read More

• couldn't punch their way out of a plastic bag

  California bags the plastic bag ban but makes solar leap 5

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 12:09 PM By Todd Woody

  The Golden State failed to ban plastic bags and may reverse its landmark climate bill, but it's also adding solar capacity like crazy. Thousands of megawatts are set to come on line in the near future. California's on a solar streak. Read More

• fines of the times

  Mariner Energy cited for two violations in past six months, totaling $55,000 3

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 10:58 AM By Joseph Romm

  I know that you are shocked, shocked to learn the owner of the offshore oil and gas platform that exploded yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico had two violations just this year from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Outer Continental Shelf Civil/Criminal Penalties Program. Read More

• paradox lost

  The environmentalist’s paradox: we do better while the earth does worse 34

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 10:25 AM By David Roberts

  More people have more money, better health, more mobility, more food, and more security than ever before in human history. The natural world, however, is going to sh*t. What explains the disparity? Read More

• Back in black

  Latest Gulf oil well explosion was no disaster, but what does it say about offshore drilling? 5

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 10:24 AM By Randy Rieland

  Thursday's explosion in the Gulf had little in common with the BP disaster, but critics of offshore drilling say it highlights how risky the practice is. Also, China talks tough on energy, and its traffic jam from hell is back. Read More

• oiled again!

  Explosion on Gulf of Mexico oil platform contained, but damage unknown

  Posted 3 Sep 2010 9:46 AM By Agence France-Presse

  An oil platform explosion Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico forced the crew to dive into the sea and threatened further damage to waters still recovering from the BP disaster. Read More

• Fuel tanker runs aground in Canadian Arctic 3

  Posted 2 Sep 2010 3:22 PM By Agence France-Presse

• Big day for solar at the California Public Utilities Commission

  Posted 2 Sep 2010 1:14 PM By Adam Browning

• Oil slick spreading after rig explosion forced 13 workers into the Gulf

  Posted 2 Sep 2010 11:53 AM By Agence France-Presse

• District energy 101 10

  Posted 2 Sep 2010 12:11 PM By Sean Casten

• Feds lease prime solar land, but nary a panel is in sight 3

  Posted 2 Sep 2010 10:51 AM By Randy Rieland

• Richard Burr: objectionable and vulnerable 2

  Posted 2 Sep 2010 7:52 AM By David Roberts

• How will you keep walruses from learning to fly? 2

  Posted 2 Sep 2010 1:24 AM By Ashley Braun

• Bill McKibben tells Letterman why he’s bringing solar back to the White House 19

  Posted 1 Sep 2010 5:25 PM By Jonathan Hiskes

• Climate change poses big risks to China’s crops and economy, study finds 4

  Posted 1 Sep 2010 2:01 PM By Agence France-Presse

• New rules push oil inspectors to clean up their act 4

  Posted 1 Sep 2010 1:37 PM By Randy Rieland

• Creating 625,000 jobs and saving $64 billion through energy efficiency 1

  Posted 1 Sep 2010 11:00 AM By Joseph Romm

• How bad are the next few years going to suck? 83

  Posted 1 Sep 2010 9:46 AM By David Roberts

• PACE homeowners must pay up before refinancing, Fannie and Freddie say

  Posted 31 Aug 2010 5:21 PM By Jonathan Hiskes

• We should pay to shut down dirty old coal plants 22

  Posted 31 Aug 2010 3:32 PM By Ted Nace

• California Legislature passes energy storage bill 6

  Posted 31 Aug 2010 12:15 PM By Todd Woody

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