Activists in Boat Blocking Coal Ship at Brayton Point Coal Plant
Two Massachusetts men anchor lobster boat in Mount Hope Bay, call for immediate coal plant shutdown to avert climate change catastrophe
The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
Do we all have to drown in rising seas or broil in epic droughts before we decide it’s time to switch to renewable energy?
How Did Coal-Rich India End Up With Power Blackouts?
How climate change and Word Bank decisions lead to the crisis.
Green Scissors for Congress
The United States can’t afford giveaways for mining and oil companies anymore.
India’s Gambit in the Central Asian Abyss
Central Asia dazzles the world with its energy sources.
Big Meetings
I’d much rather that representatives of the world’s nations gather on a regular basis to bore themselves to death in a conference rather than beat themselves to death in a war. Make resolutions, not war is the bumper sticker of the future.
Obama’s Energy and Environment Budget: Lofty Goals in Need of a Financial and Political Base
President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget proposal offers a window into which battles he aims to fight and which ones he intends to avoid. Here’s a breakdown of the energy policies embedded in the proposed budget.
The Human Face of the Nuclear Arms Race
The pernicious quest for nuclear arms all in the name of a “greater good” – has tens of thousands of human faces, who paid a bitter price, which we should not forget.
Is China Heading for Collapse?
Predictions of economic decline and regime change in China have become increasingly popular. Hard times ahead? Almost certainly. Regime change? Not so likely.
I Was Arrested Today at the White House to Say No to Dirty Energy and the Tar Sands
“Today I’m risking arrest to urge president Obama to be the leader that puts healing the planet and families over the interests of the fossil fuel industry.”
Chernobyl: The Gift That Never Stops Giving
The threats to human health and the environment from Chernobyl fallout, scientists are now finding, will persist for a very long time.
Extreme Energy
Noted author and Hampshire College professor Michael Klare, whose latest book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet describes the geopolitics of the energy crisis, will talk about the causes behind the Gulf oil spill.
Global Power Shift
In a shifting political landscape, columnist Michael Klare points out, mammoth energy reserves are increasingly more important than huge military arsenals.
The National Future of Belarus
Will Belarus buck the recent trend and give up its sovereignty to merge with Russia?
Militarizing Africa (Again)
With the new Africa Command, the United States is increasing its military footprint on an energy-rich continent.