Oceans of trouble as the CO2 battles widen
Legal battles loom over oceanic environmental issues.
Latest from Harry Fuller
Rising sea levels and rising levels of anxiety
You can't negotiate with the laws of physics.
A British look at global warming denial
And this examination takes us back to the Norsemen and their settlements in Newfoundland and Greenland. And that pesky issue of the Medaeval Warming.
Treece and truth
Treece is in Kansas and it's a toxic town. The Treece truth is in the result: nature gives no free lunch.
Smart grid grants
Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S.
Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?
There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions.
The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress
Here's another sign that whatever happens on energy in Congress, if anything, will be a sideshow: the EPA plans to reject a permit for a new coal mine in West Virginia. The planned mine would be yet another mountaintop removal.
Kivalina lawsuit died but spawned similar claim
A federal court has upheld the right of Hurricane Katrina victims to sue air polluters over rising sea levels. Earlier the Inuit residents of Alaskan village, Kivalina, had won the same right.
Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America
I recently blogged about the EPA's move against major greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S.
Lawsuit alert: carbon wars are set to begin
I actually heard one political analyst today say that "nobody" wants the EPA to single-handedly deal with greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.