The Obama administration adopted its climate change plan B today, formally declaring carbon dioxide a public danger so that it can cut greenhouse gas emissions even without the agreement of a reluctant Senate.
The timing of the announcement – in the opening hours of the UN's Copenhagen climate change summit – prevents Barack Obama from arriving at the talks without concrete evidence that America will do its bit to cut the emissions that cause global warming.
US climate agency declares CO2 public danger
As rural deposits of fossil fuel grow fewer and farther between, extractive industries are increasingly siting...
Today, Laura Legere of the Times Tribune has published the first in an important two-part series...
Conservative states, business groups, fossil fuel companies, and politicians who deny the science of climate change...
