President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

I write a lot of environmental stories.

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

The momentum today behind the idea of a new global reserve currency reflects, in effect, the rise of the rest in world politics and economics, led by China.

You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

The left are afraid of independent thinkers. They are afraid of people who are able to reason and think on their own.

I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.

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