The Obama Administration has halted, for the moment, a pipeline project that has become a political football.

Are carbon emissions saving us all from a cold, cold fate?

Welcome technological change, or crony capitalism?

Congressional Republicans got a major concession as price for averting a government shutdown: saving the incandescent light bulb, at least now.

Here’s Mitt Romney on climate change in June: It seemed like a straightforward question on a second-tier issue: Would Mitt Romney disavow the science behind global warming? The putative Republican presidential front-runner, eager to prove his conservative bona fides, could easily have said what he knew many in his party’s base wanted to hear. Instead, [...]

Governor, that analogy does not mean what you think it means.

Environmentalists are upset by President Obama’s decision to abandon stringent new smog regulations, but he made the right decision.

The connections between the White House and failed solar energy company Solyndra deepen.

Bill Nye, who started his career explaining science to children, finds it harder to explain the subject to a Fox Business Network Host H/T: Mediaite

The climate change deniers aren’t going to like what Chris Christie has to say.

President Obama wants a million hybrid cars on the road by 2015. That’s easier said than done.

As with most of the other issues facing us, our political conversation about climate change and what to do about it basically just involves yelling at each other.

Via NOAA (each read dot is a tornado):  

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

A five year study in Europe determined that the costs of using nitrogen fertilizers significantly outweigh the benefits, costing billions of dollars worth of damage. Nitrogen pollution costs Europe between 70 and 320 billion euros ($100bn-$460bn) per year in its impact on health and the environment, according to a major European study launched in Britain [...]

The Japanese government has announced that the Fukushima Reactor suffered a partial meltdown.

My latest post over at Forbes is about how responsible management of livestock can reverse desertification. If these procedures are followed, it would alleviate some concerns that I had expressed earlier this month.

We’re heading towards a future of higher food prices and more hunger.

The AP notes that as a result of natural gas drilling, smog in parts of Wyoming is the worst in the country: Wyoming, famous for its crisp mountain air and breathtaking, far-as-the-eye-can-see vistas, is looking a lot like smoggy Los Angeles these days because of a boom in natural gas drilling. Folks who live near [...]

The privitization of Federal helium reserves is a textbook example of the damage to the nation that can be caused by imprudent budget cutting.

Forecasters in the United Kingdom are saying that upcoming winter could be the most severe the nation has experienced since Charles II was King: If you thought last week was as cold as you could bear it, brace yourself. Forecasters say the worst is yet to come, and this winter could be the harshest since [...]

Frustrated that it couldn’t achieve desired environmental legislation despite huge majorities in both Houses of Congress, the Obama administration has decided to govern by executive fiat.

Let’s keep our eye on the ball, people.

It’s a story we’ve heard before. Over-blown Western environmentalist doomcrying kills millions; this time it’s genetically modified food: “What the Green Movement Got Wrong”, broadcast this week, by the same channel that aired the hugely controversial “Great Climate Change Swindle” suggests that the Western green consensus against GM foods had impoverished the southern hemisphere. “The [...]

Via CNN:  Rescue efforts under way after oil rig explosion in Gulf U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough tells CNN that 12 people from the rig are in the water immersion suits as they await rescue. Colclough told CNN there are reports the rig is still on fire. […] Asked about concerns regarding oil [...]

It’s beginning to look like initial reports that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill had been “cleaned up” may not be true after all.

It may come as a surprise given the gloom-and-doom headlines we were treated to during the three-month long Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis, but it looks like most of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon well is gone: The Obama administration says in a report out Wednesday that a combination of Mother Nature and [...]

In arguing against lifting liability caps on offshore drilling, the Wall Street Journal is arguing against both moral responsibility and the free market.

Now that the flood of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig has been staunched, some are arguing that the prophesied environmental catastrophe was greatly overblown.

One hundred days after the Deepwater Horizon rig was destroyed, response teams are having trouble finding oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico: The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected, a piece of good news that raises tricky new questions about how fast the [...]

800,000 gallons of oil have leaked from a pipeline into a creek that flows into the Kalamazoo River. BP is not involved.

The Department of the Interior has, unwisely and unnecessarily, reimposed the ban on deep water offshore drilling.

What exactly is it about air conditioning that has some people so upset ?

From last night AC360, here’s a rather disturbing report about new media access rules that seem to be making it nearly impossible for the press to cover the worst environmental disaster in American history: While I agree that there needs to be some reasonable rules that allow clean-up crews to do their job, cutting off [...]

According to the AP (BP giving financial help to stations), BP is going to provide some financial help to their gas stations to help offset declining sales as a result of boycotts. This could work if, in fact, the station owners pass on the savings to the consumers, as the best way to dissuade boycotters [...]

Marc Ambinder does a good job of debunking the idea that the Obama Administration’s failure to waive the Jones Act has impeded the cleanup effort in the Gulf Of Mexico: The truth: Not a single government that has offered its assets for free has been refused by the U.S. … The government, on Obama’s orders, is moving [...]

America’s 42nd President offers his advice on how to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak: Insert appropriate Bill Clinton/drilling joke here.

“It’s illogical to hunt a species to extinction.” – Spock

Contrary to popular belief, Adolf Hitler didn’t come to power by democratic means or because of his ability to whip the public into a frenzy.

Via Yahoo! News:  Costner cleanup device gets high marks from BP. Who knew?  It all sounded a bit wacky when Costner was testifying before Congress about the things. See, also, the NYT:  Advances in Oil Spill Cleanup Lag Since Valdez.

LSU is facing some potential deep cuts in its budget.

Another poll brings bad news for the White House.

One of the odder results of yesterday’s primary elections was the victory of Bill Randall in the GOP primary for North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District: North Carolinians made their choice in the 13th Congressional District Republican runoff last night. And most of them went with the guy whose take on the worst environmental disaster in [...]

Well, this is certainly bad news: BP suffered another setback in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, when a discharge of liquid and gases forced the company to remove the containment cap that for three weeks had been able to capture a large portion of the oil gushing from its damaged well. Adm. Thad W. [...]

This video making the rounds on Twitter appears to show traces of oil during a rain storm in Louisiana: I’m not sure what this means, if it means anything, but it doesn’t look good.

A group of oceanographers suggest that the oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion will leave the Gulf in a few months. What happens then?

A Federal Judge in Louisiana has told the Obama Administration that it can’t ban offshore drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

President Obama continues to suffer politically as a result of the oil spill crisis.

The escrow fund was a big negative for BP, yes?

Should Obama waive restrictions on international shipping, as Bush did during Katrina? It’s more complicated than you may think.