Warren Buffet and George Soros -- two of the world's wealthiest people -- are well known for their embrace of the Democratic party. Buffet endorsed Obama, and Soros bankrolled a failed effort to defeat Bush II in 2004 -- long before W. had earned his dismal approval ratings.

So what...

Last week -- on anything to do with climate and energy -- it was all California, all the time. The state emerged in full view as the nation's leading source of leadership and light on global warming solutions. The best part is that California's ascendancy is both bipartisan and global.

It's been almost a year now since Rupert Murdoch took over the Wall Street Journal, and the paper's newsroom leadership, its reporting style, its size and its look have all had a makeover. Murdoch has left its editorial page alone, however -- it's still spouting green-bashing, extremist free-market opinion --...

History says, Don't hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.

Excerpt from The Cure at Troy, by Seamus Heaney

Barack...

It's amazing what you can pick up sitting up at the right luncheon table in New York. The herb-crusted halibut and fingerling potatoes had just hit our plates and we were waiting for Boone Pickens to give the keynote at Chadbourne & Parke's Green Business Summit II at the Hilton.

Today, Florida is releasing its plan of action to address climate change, and the news is good and big.

Fifty separate policy recommendations pave the way for Florida to realize $28 billion in net economic savings between now and 2025, and to significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The report's...

A long-standing ban on the commercial development of oil shale on federal lands expired on September 30th. That means America is now on the edge of an abyss, about to take the plunge into an endless fossil future. The steady march toward this awful future of extended oil addiction is...

Phil Clapp, 54, deputy managing director of the Pew Environment Group, died yesterday in Amsterdam of complications from pneumonia, which he contracted while on vacation. Obituaries of this gentle, humorous man who was one of the environmental movement's most effective Washington insiders are running today in both the

The Republican Convention chant of "Drill, Baby, Drill!" just acquired an X-rating, with disclosure in a New York Times article that broke today detailing a wide-ranging ethics scandal at the Interior Department.

The investigation also concluded that several of the officials "frequently consumed alcohol at...

Oil Change International is a well known web site for tracking petroleum industry campaign contributions. All you need is a zip code or the name of a Congressperson and the web tool tells you the oily story: how many petroleum industry dollars flowed into your representative's campaign coffers...

For the first time in human history, it has become possible to circumnavigate the Arctic ice cap.

New satellite images show that both the Northwest and Northeast passages are now ice free. Professor Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist at the National Snow and Ice Data...

Hurricane Gustav has revived the debate over the causal connection between global warming and hurricanes -- just in time for the Republican National Convention. Statistics compiled at Georgia Tech's Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department, reported yesterday by the Associated Press, indicate a sharply worsening trend.

From...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wondered whether investors in coal-burning utilities were being sufficiently well-informed about the risks of where they were parking their money. So he subpoenaed five companies for information -- Xcel Energy, the AES Corporation, Dominion, Dynegy and Peabody Energy.

Were they disclosing...

Take a look at the map of the Caspian Region Pipelines and maybe you'll have an "Aha!" moment like I did. I didn't know what to make of the conflict in Georgia until the map hit my in-box.

It came attached to a research note from Innovest Strategic Value Advisors....

Shares in Denmark's Vestas -- the world's #1 wind turbine maker -- shot up 8 percent last Friday on news that the company had an order backlog worth $10.7 billion. The backlog grew 67 percent since a year ago -- a strong indication of continued robust growth.

The company...

Who knew that the US is currently exporting 1.8 million barrels of oil a day?

To make sure everybody does, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, sent a public letter to President Bush, asking him to...

A new study called "The Contribution of Chinese Exports to Climate Change" just published in the journal Energy Policy (firewalled) delivers some sobering news.

The recent rapid growth of greenhouse gas emissions in China is largely the result of industrial production of cheap exports for foreign...

Senator McCain did not show up for the crucial vote on July 30, and the renewable energy bill was defeated for the eighth time. In fact, John McCain has a perfect record on this renewable energy legislation. He has missed all eight votes over the last year --...

More than half the residents of New York State -- those who live in the Big Apple -- rely on a fabled watershed for their supply of pure, fresh water. Dotted with reservoirs, the watershed is so well protected that none of the water needs to be filtered --...

Say the word "Nano" in America, and most people will think of a music player; say the word in India, the world's largest democracy, and people there will likely think of a car. The music player is Apple's, the car is Tata's.

You might think comparing the...