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• Progress from the Copenhagen Accord: A good start to global progress on climate safety

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 3:37 PM By Andrew Light

  While many are determined to see the outcome of Copenhagen as a failure, an analysis from Project Catalyst reveals a different picture: a good start in this new year to the reductions needed in climate pollution and a clearer pathway on how to meet our global goals. Read More

• U.S. warns China against ‘stillborn’ climate deal

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 3:26 PM By Agence France-Presse

  The United States on Tuesday pressed China, India, and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen Accord risked being "stillborn." Read More

• She didn't. Or did she?

  Did Michelle Obama get the president to create a national Food Policy Council?

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 2:28 PM By Tom Laskawy

  Michelle Obama kicked off her campaign against childhood obesity today. Among the provisions are a revamping of the school lunch program, a small boost in funding for farmers markets, a major initiative to "end" food deserts by 2017, a focus on maintaining children's exercise levels, a set of broad public-private partnerships, along with reforms to front-of-package nutrition labeling and the food pyramid. Read More

• Part I: 5 Questions

  Policy fixes to unleash clean energy 3

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 2:03 PM By Sean Casten

  Suppose you became King tomorrow and your first order of busuiness was to modernize the U.S. energy system -- make it cleaner, cheaper, more reliable and more sustainable. What would you do? Read More

• Cash for caulkers at a profit!

  Create jobs, reduce lung disease, and help solve the climate crisis at zero cost

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 10:14 AM By Gar Lipow

  As economic stimulus moves back onto the table, why not consider zero cost opportunities to create jobs, opportunities that would reduce lung diseases, and greenhouse gas emissions as a side effect? Read More

• Steep on

  A response to teabaggers 36

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 5:26 PM By David Roberts

  This morning, my piece on the Audi "green police" ad made its way onto the Drudge Report. Grist got crushed with traffic, and as always when my work drifts into the rightosphere, I got some choice emails. Most emailers objected to my use of the terms "teabag" and "teabaggers." Appaaarently, there's some sort of deviant sex act that goes by that name. Not sure why all the tea, er, partiers know this ... More serious thoughts below, but first, some of my favorite excerpts. Read More

• convention without representation

  Any hope for meaningful U.S. climate policy? A somewhat positive view 5

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 5:16 PM By Robert Stavins

  The current conventional wisdom ­– broadly echoed by the news media and the blogosphere – is that comprehensive, economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade legislation is dead in the current U.S. Congress, and perhaps for the next several years. Watch out for conventional wisdoms! Read More

• Firing blanks

  Four stories that should have changed the media narrative ... but didn’t 19

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 2:55 PM By David Roberts

  One of the most frustrating things about covering national energy politics is that conventional wisdom in D.C. never seems to change. Narratives there are a) completely at odds with the rest of the world's and b) absolutely impenetrable. Case in point: there were at least four stories last week that should have changed the narrative, but none of them made a dent. Read More

• Don't bet on it

  What are the chances of a cap-and-trade system being established in the U.S. this year?

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 12:49 PM By Lisa Hymas

  16.9 percent, according to Intrade.com, an online betting site -- down from 59 percent last summer, but up from 12.7 percent late last month. Read More

• action sited

  Obama admin launches new Climate Service and climate.gov 1

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 11:27 AM By Agence France-Presse

  The Obama administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy. Read More

• Lobbyists rush to block EPA action on climate change

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 11:15 AM By Marianne Lavelle

  Like a lot of industry groups, the farm lobby says it would prefer that Congress tackle climate change rather than leaving the job to the bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency. But now, the prospect of EPA greenhouse gas regulation looms large -- mostly because agriculture and so many other interests haven't liked any of the climate bills so far on Capitol Hill. Read More

• Edible schoolyards, overworked teachers

  To flourish, school gardens need more than photo ops 1

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 7:00 AM By Sarah Bernardi

  Michelle Obama's high-profile advocacy has helped make school gardens popular. But for school gardens to flourish and reach their educational potential, they'll need more resources, argues a teacher whose students helped the First Lady break ground on the White House Garden. Read More

• A new American environmentalism and the new economy 2

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 5:00 AM By Gus Speth

• Palin bashes ‘cap and tax’ and commends Obama on nuclear 11

  Posted 7 Feb 2010 1:44 PM By Lisa Hymas

• USDA makes the right call on school meat safety, animal tracking 3

  Posted 5 Feb 2010 2:24 PM By Tom Laskawy

• A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill 50

  Posted 5 Feb 2010 12:53 AM By David Roberts

• Iraq veterans hit GOP for aiding terrorists with oil money 7

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 4:35 PM By Brad Johnson

• The Climate Post: In which it feels like everything has come to a full stop 10

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 4:04 PM By Eric Roston

• Anti-jobs ‘California Jobs Initiative’ crew threatens suit over name change 1

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 2:45 PM By Adam Browning

• How much will nuclear cost U.S. citizens? 14

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 9:15 AM By Sue Sturgis

• Feed-in tariffs legal in U.S. when certain conditions met 3

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 12:59 PM By Paul Gipe

• Midnight regulations 2

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 9:58 AM By Michael A. Livermore

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