Even as the disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for BP are working to settle a civil lawsuit the government brought in connection with the 2006 pipeline spills in Alaska.
The American Power Act written by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman features carbon trading, more offshore drilling, and big subsidies for “clean coal” and “safe nuclear power.”
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales arrived at the UN to present the conclusions of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth (CMPCC).
The oil industry—through its media flacks and bought politicians—is mobilizing to assure that the Gulf of Mexico disaster will not result in an offshore drilling moratorium.
Conservationists fear the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will affect migratory bird populations from Alaska to South America.
The climate summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia, closed with a call for creation of an International Tribunal on Environmental and Climate Justice.
The Obama administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review will call for “dramatic reductions” in the nuclear arsenal—but no pledge that the US will never launch a first strike.
The Native Alaskan coastal village of Kivalina, its lands rapidly eroding, is appealing a suit against oil and power companies, charging that climate change endangers their community.
Sea ice in Canada’s Arctic is melting faster than previously expected, Ottawa’s largest climate-change study yet has found—raising a worst-case scenario of an ice-free Arctic by 2013.
The US and Russia have reached an agreement for the first nuclear weapons treaty since 1991, calling for reductions in both the number of warheads and delivery systems.
President Barack Obama is set to boost funding for nuclear weapons programs next year by more than $7 billion, an increase of $624 million from FY 2010.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials to allow continued operations in the country following shooting deaths in 2007.
