Environment

Obama’s Nuclear Option

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Feb 17, 2010 President Obama's publicly financed resuscitation of the nuclear power industry in the U.S. is bound to fail, another taxpayer bailout waiting to happen. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Climate Change Deniers Freeze Al Gore in Effigy

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2010 Some climate change deniers have schlepped a frozen sculpture of Al Gore to Alaska to prove that, science be damned, global warming can't possibly be happening because "it still gets cold" in the arctic state. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Dec 23, 2009 The nonbinding, take-it-or-leave-it Copenhagen accord may be a failure, but the whole process has inspired a new generation of activists. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Dec 16, 2009 As the United Nations' climate summit enters its final week in the home country of Hans Christian Andersen, the notion that a binding agreement will come from this gathering looks more and more like a fairy tale. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Palin’s Climate Epiphany

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 15, 2009 Back in the heady days of 2008, as governor of our most at-risk state, Sarah Palin sounded a dire warning against climate change What a difference a book tour makesAs governor of our most at-risk state, Sarah Palin sounded a dire warning against climate change. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Fair and Balanced (and Phony) Science

Joe Conason / Truthdig Dec 10, 2009 Evading the challenges of climate change -- and the human responsibility to save the planet -- is simple enough even for the laziest citizen.Evading the human responsibility to save the planet is simple enough even for the laziest citizen. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The ‘Human’ Factor Missing in Copenhagen

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Dec 10, 2009 Countries are wrangling over everything about human-induced climate change except the increasing number of humans inducing it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Take Me to Your Climate Leader

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Dec 9, 2009 "Politicians talk, leaders act" read the sign outside the Bella Center in Copenhagen on the opening day of the United Nations climate summit. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Corporate Farmer Calls Upon Sen. Feinstein to Influence Environmental Dispute

Staff / Truthdig Dec 7, 2009 Wealthy corporate farmer Stewart Resnick (shown above with wife Lynda) has written check after check to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's campaigns, and when he needed her help, he got quick results.When wealthy donor Stewart Resnick asked for Dianne Feinstein's help, he got quick results. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

California Climate Change Primer With Your Host, Gov. Schwarzenegger

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2009 California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apparently isn't one of those Republicans who believe that growing international concerns about climate change stem from a vast left-wing conspiracy. Here, he takes stock of the climate-related challenges his adopted home state may face and what's to be done about them. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama on His Own

By Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang Dec 4, 2009 In Copenhagen, a major binding agreement at the global warming summit is not to be Not this year In Washington, the Senate is so divided that it became clear months ago that climate legislation will be pushed off until 2010 at the earliest Still, the United States can meet the challenge of a world demanding that it take the lead on global warming Here's howThe United States can meet the challenge of a world demanding that it take the lead on global warming. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Copenhagen Conundrum

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 1, 2009 Climate-change skeptics are barking up the wrong smokestack. The shell game being played isn't with the science, it's with the solutions.The shell game being played with climate change isn't with the science, it's with the solutions. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )