California voters defeated Proposition 23, voting 61.3% in favor of keeping the state’s 2006 greenhouse gas reduction law, the Global Warming Solutions Act, considered the strongest in the nation.
UN talks on climate change in Tianjin are nearing a close with no clear consensus yet in sight as China and Brazil blocked discussion of extending the Kyoto Protocol.
Massive fish kills are still being reported from the Louisiana coast as BP finally completes the relief well at Macondo, supposedly putting a final end to the Gulf disaster.
Although before the Deepwater Horizon disaster they won little media attention, government statistics show that more than 100 fires and explosions take place in the Gulf of Mexico each year.
Our August issue featured the story BP: The Case for Public Ownership by Billy Wharton, a reprint from In These Times. Our multiple-choice Exit Poll was: “Should BP be nationalzied?” We received 16 votes. The results follow: Yes, it is… Read moreOur readers write: Should BP be nationalized?
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement calling on governments to work to come into compliance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Will future generations note April 20, 2010—the day the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster began—as a greater turning point than Sept. 11, 2001? Our readers weigh in…
Two lawsuits have been filed against BP alleging violations of the Rackteer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute in connection with the recent Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Even as officialdom lectures us about the dangers of using cell phones while driving, the auto industry is about to bring us dashboard web access—with no intervention from the authorities.
The Japanese space agency is embarking on a mammoth $2.2 billion project to put humanoid robots on the moon and create an unmanned robot lunar base by 2020.
Two natural gas pipeline explosions in as many days—one in the Texas Panhandle, and one just outside Dallas-Ft. Worth—have left four dead and several more injured.
World oil consumption dropped by 1.2 million barrels a day last year, the biggest decline since 1982, according to BP, while the Energy Department predicts falling prices next year.
