Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be coun….

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power..

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stro….

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can em….

Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially ….

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal..

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business..

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010..

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the ….

You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see warming ….

Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compare….

You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, do….

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water p….

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change..

From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and pollutin….

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, b….

Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long ….

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their s….

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China..

In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency st….

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room..