The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power..

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East..

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers ….

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

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

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

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 ….

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 ….

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

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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