Fossil Fuels
Daily Comment
How to Tell If Beto O’Rourke Is for Real: A Green New Deal and Natural Gas
No one is calling for immediately shutting down natural-gas-fired power plants, but if you’re for a Green New Deal, you probably should make clear that you’re against building new plants and the pipelines that feed them.
News Desk
How the U.S. Squandered Its Leadership at the U.N. Climate Conference
American delegates are working under a President who plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement in 2020 and who outright dismisses climate science.
Comment
Coal for Christmas at the U.N. Climate Conference
As negotiators from around the world gathered in Poland to discuss how to lower carbon emissions, the Trump Administration unveiled two schemes promoting fossil fuels.
Daily Comment
Nebraska Sort of Approves the Keystone Pipeline
Elements
Why Governor Jerry Brown Was Booed at the Bonn Climate Summit
For all their tough-on-carbon rhetoric, Brown and other leaders are ignoring a key component of the fight against global warming.
Elements
There’s a Dangerous Bubble in the Fossil-Fuel Economy, and the Trump Administration Is Making It Worse
By prolonging the inevitable death of the coal industry, federal officials are inviting not only environmental but also financial disaster.
Currency
The Climate Summit of Money
Annals of Technology
A Visit to the Paul Broste Rock Museum
Annals of Technology
Will Conservatives Finally Embrace Clean Energy?
Currency
Does Divestment Work?
Dept. of Invention
The Artificial Leaf
Profiles
The Climate Expert Who Delivered News No One Wanted to Hear
How a scientist known as the “father of global warming” watched his dire predictions for the planet come true.