Fixing America's Nuclear Waste Storage Problem
The spent-fuel pools at our nuclear reactors, containing thousands of tons of poorly protected but highly radioactive waste, are a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Robert Alvarez
The spent-fuel pools at our nuclear reactors, containing thousands of tons of poorly protected but highly radioactive waste, are a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Robert Alvarez
Investors who seek out companies that are meeting the long-term challenge of sustainability will have a strategic advantage.
If we value the planet, we are going to have to get cruel and blunt about defending its beautiful geography from the fossil fuel industry.
How droughts, the Arab Spring and the decline of nuclear power are shaping the future of global energy consumption.
Will direct action against big polluters prove more successful than Capitol Hill–based attempts to fight climate change?
The world’s second-largest economy is emerging as a pacesetter in solar and wind technology.
A five-day march on Blair Mountain seeks to harness the rich labor history of Appalachia to expand a growing movement to end the destruction of Appalachia through mountaintop removal coal mining.
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.
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.