China Rethinks Nuclear Power
The world’s second-largest economy is emerging as a pacesetter in solar and wind technology.
Lucia Green-Weiskel
The world’s second-largest economy is emerging as a pacesetter in solar and wind technology.
Lucia Green-Weiskel
Even as Fukushima threatens to unleash the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl, the president champions nuclear power in the United States.
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Bill McKibben is right: we no longer live on the “cozy, taken-for-granted” planet formerly known as Earth. We inhabit a new place, already changed dramatically by the intervention of humankind.
In a new video series from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, leading environmental thinkers Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and more weigh in on the earth's quickly-depleting oil supply.
When nuclear reactors blow, the first thing that melts down is the truth.
The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.
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Melissa Harris-Perry says that people in New Orleans need to acknowledge this great sacrifice and work to provide these communities with the health care, housing and education they will need to recover from the flooding.
President Obama is once again calling for increased offshore oil drilling—despite the fact that key safety issues have yet to be addressed.
Now to the opposite of cuts. Over a year after the biggest oil spill in US history and even as criminal investigations continue, BP is still receiving millions of dollars in government contracts.
Video Obama has asked for an end to massive tax subsidies to oil and gas companies, and even Republican House Speaker John Boehner thought it was a good idea—for a second, that is.
Gas prices have been edging up since February, reaching $4 a gallon this Easter, and Republicans are gearing up to make a stink about it.
