Fossil Fuels

When will we stop paying the hidden fossil fuel tax? 1
Posted 3 weeks ago Last week, the nation suffered from major sticker shock when we learned that our use of fossil fuels comes with a hidden price tag of $120 billion per year.
The hidden cost of coal 1
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago Based on Clark Williams-Derry's awesome powers of multiplication, and a quick trip to the U.S. Energy Information Administration website, these numbers suggest that the "hidden" costs of coal fired power in 2005 were roughly twice as high as the cost of the coal itself.
don't get in the way, congress!

Growth in renewable energy outpaces nuclear, fossil fuels 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
G20, your resolution sounds terrific

G20 cans fossil-fuel subsidies, but fails to make other climate-conserving moves 7
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago At the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, world leaders announced an agreement to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies. It was the only climate-specific policy directive to come out of the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, and it fell far short in the view of climate activists.
mo money, mo problems, for everyone but the GOP

Money can’t buy YOU love — but it can buy the fossil fuel industry the GOP loves 2
Posted 4 months ago
Oil companies, electric utilities and the coal industry have poured more than $250,000 this year into the coffers of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the party's House fundraising arm that has played a lead role in attacking Democrats who supported climate legislation.
First Things First

If you want a revolution, start with a clean energy one 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Do dirty coal plants make us more vulnerable to swine flu? 3
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Scientists have discovered that exposure to a common pollutant may make people more likely to experience severe symptoms from swine flu -- and it's a pollutant emitted in large quantities by coal-burning power plants and other industrial facilities.
End of the fossil-fuel era

90 months and counting 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
With the clock running in the climate change countdown, post-Enlightenment faith in technological fixes may not be enough.
Wanted: Cloudsplitter

Waxman-Markey: ‘80% less by 2050’ is too hard, let’s do 46% 3
Posted 6 months ago
The "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" seems intent on postponing Americans' day of reckoning with climate-damaging fossil fuels.
Let's all go to the lobby

Dirty energy interests have spent $79 million this year lobbying Congress 2
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
The oil, gas, and electricity sectors spent tens of millions more to lobby Congress in the first quarter of 2009 than their renewable-energy counterparts. Big whoop, right? Well, yes.
Ad hoch

Nearly $200 million spent on energy ads since Obama’s inauguration 7
Posted 7 months ago
Interest groups and corporations have spent $199.5 million on television ads on energy, the environment, and climate this year.
Patches for our patches

RPS, EERS and energy politics 3
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
What is the goal of renewable energy and efficiency mandates? You'd be hard-pressed to get consistent answers to that question, even from proponents. That should tell us something.
Off the Wald

Shoddy economics at The New York Times 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Joe Romm has done a pretty thorough trashing of Matt Wald's recent New York Times piece. Herein, I pile on.
Sustainable funding for sustainable infrastructure 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama should make like Lincoln and abolish fossil fuels 10
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
The NYT magazine doesn’t understand renewables, efficiency, energy prices, or green jobs 2
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Revealing skeptics as sock puppets in a few quick clicks 6
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Is there anything that isn’t peaking? 8
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Deep thought 5
Posted 10 months ago
A detailed look at building, industry, transportation, and land-use greenhouse-gas emissions 38
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago