photo via flickr In a surprising but welcome move, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers today sent a letter to House and Senate leadership stating its opposition to Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s efforts to take away the EPA’s ability to regulate... 

A couple days ago, I wrote about the 10th National Bike Summit in Washington, DC, and yesterday LLoyd wrote about More here:  Ray LaHood’s Tabletop Speech at the National Bike Summit  Read More →

Britain’s independent watchdog agency, the Advertising Standards Association, has decided it is. The ad, which features a a father reading a bedtime story to his daughter about the the impacts of climate change, caused a stir when it was first... 

Photo via Atro City News There’s one major way that it feasibly could–and that’s if the passage of a health care bill causes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to jump ship on energy reform efforts. Josh Nelson grapples with this possibility... 

States that could, in the future, attract manufacturing jobs using low reliance on coal as a marketing tool. Image credit: J.Laumer, with USEIA data. A few days ago I asserted that total coal consumption per state is a more useful metric than coal... 

Photo: Flickr , CC Clean Energy Still Growing Strongly Despite a very difficult year for most industries in 2009, the three major branches of the clean energy sector have shown some significant growth. “In 2009, combined global revenue for the... 

photo: Doug Wheller via flickr. Indonesia and protecting forests haven’t really played well together in recent years. Due to high deforestation rates , the nation ranks among the top tier of greenhouse gas emitters–not to mention the effect... 

Former Rainforest Action Network Director Mike Brune has begun his tenure at the Sierra Club, the country’s most effective campaigning organization on coal. Brune has a strong background taking on the country’s biggest polluters and now... 

Photo via Healthline Are you satisfied with the overall standard of environmental quality in the United States? According to a new poll, 46% of Americans are, saying that quality is either excellent or good. The number is up from 39% last year, and... 

Stephen McDaniel at Freakalytics After I posted about the inverse correlation between between subsidies and federal nutrition guidelines I learned a few things about statistics and the power of the internet. I didn’t really understand commenter...