Energy and Environment
June 13, 2008 -
The death in the U.S. Senate one week ago today of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act was a disappointment to many in the movement for clean energy. But the bill's consideration also marked important progress for that movement, with Sen.
June 11, 2008 -
The New York Times reported earlier this week that high gas prices are taking a serious toll on rural populations across the United States.
June 3, 2008 -
Watch out, coastal America: the hurricane researchers at Colorado State University are predicting 2008 will be a major year for storms, with eight hurricanes forming in the Atlantic, four of them "m
June 3, 2008 -
The consulting firm ICF International, Inc.
May 29, 2008 -
A new study from the Brookings Institution examines the carbon footprint of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas -- and finds that Southern cities dominate the lis
May 22, 2008 -
Next month the U.S. Senate is expected to take up the Lieberman-Warner bill on climate change (S. 2191), legislation that would create a federally controlled market for carbon pollution by allowing industries to buy and sell emission allowances.
May 21, 2008 -
A new study by scientist Tom Knutson and colleagues offers a little bit of good news for the hurricane-battered South.