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April 14, 2020
Eric Margolis
The Coming Ecosystem Collapse Is Already Here for Coral
Conservationists are waging an expensive fight of diminishing returns to save reefs and those who depend on them.
November 12, 2019
Eleanor Cummins
The Quickest Way to Reduce Airplane Emissions
Jet fuel isn't taxed on international trips. Maybe it's time to change that, seeing as the rule was decided in 1944.
October 22, 2018
Alexander Sammon
How the Bank Bailout Hobbled the Climate Fight
Wall Street took the money the government lent them and plowed it straight into the fossil fuel industry.
December 8, 2015
Julian Spector
The U.S. Will Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground—Until After the Paris Climate Talks
Officials postponed the auction of an oil and gas development lease until next spring
November 12, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
NASA’s new video showing how CO2 moves through the atmosphere is both eerie and mesmerizing.
January 26, 2015
Zoe Loftus-Farren
President Obama, Cut Dirty Nuclear Power From Your Climate-Change Talks
November 17, 2014
Rebecca Leber
This Mesmerizing NASA Video Shows How Carbon Pollution Spreads Across the Planet
September 15, 2014
Brad Johnson
'Energy Independence' Will Destroy the Planet
U.S. politicians are fooling themselves on climate change
June 5, 2014
Alec MacGillis
The Wall Street Journal Can't Decide Why Obama Is Terrible
June 2, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Why Enviros Are Saying Such Nice Things About the New EPA Rules
May 29, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Obama's Dirty, Coal-Loving Past
The coal industry says Obama's new energy rules are the product of his lifelong enmity. His record says otherwise.
May 29, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
One More Reason Obama's Power Plant Rules Will Make the GOP Nuts
May 28, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Obama's Climate Change Plan
May 26, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Obama's New Rules for Coal Plants Are a B.F.D. The Ensuing Political Fight May Be Even Bigger.
October 28, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
This Might Be the Last Traditional Coal Power Plant to Be Built in America

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