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New research suggests that fewer people with right wing views will purchase light bulbs that are labeled as "pro-environment" due to the politicized nature of the carbon debate in the United States...

Someone, I can’t recall who, sent me a link to this over a week ago before Fakegate exploded. I’ve had it open in my browser since. Published in 1951, it seems prescient as we look at the global warming affair...

In this sixth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce,...

The Obama administration is struggling to follow through on promises with regard to health care and climate change because of a Republican party that seems to have no interest in constructive efforts to solve problems for...

Yesterday the Nobel Peace Prize Committee awarded President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples...

In April of 1994 CEO’s from the leading tobacco companies appeared before Congress and said, one by one and under oath, that nicotine was not addictive...

San Francisco based power utility Pacific Gas & Electric has announced it will leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in protest over the organization’s “extreme” position on climate change.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled on Monday that five of the largest power utilities can be called upon to defend themselves in court against allegations that their greenhouse gas emissions create a public...

As the recession has forced municipal governments all over to tighten their belts, municipally run green initiatives have been some of the programs on the chopping block...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to force the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a “trial” on climate change. Characterizing it as the “Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century,” the trial would...

Last week we reported on a series of forged letters sent to freshman Congressman Tom Perriello, purportedly from constituent groups, but in reality from an employee for “grassroots” lobbying firm Bonner &...

Freshman congressman Tom Perriello, a Democrat representing the 5th district of Virginia, had a hard decision to make in voting for the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES)...

House Republican Representatives Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Michael Conaway of Texas hope to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act - come hell...

Greenpeace activists in Italy and the U.S. staged protests today as leaders of the eight richest nations began the latest G8 summit in L’Aquila Italy.

Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe is known to most outside his home state as a leading denier of anthropogenic global warming, going as far as calling it the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.” Wow, them’s...