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Opinion: Corporations at the Cap-and-Trade Trough

(April 26) -- When Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened this weekend to pull back his support of a global warming bill he co-authored -- along with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. -- it looked as though the once-dead cap-and-trade bill could be dead again. That might be just as well. Unlike the...

W.Va. Stalagmite Points to Surprising Carbon Footprint

(April 18) -- The popular American myth of the "noble savage" -- perpetuated by novelists, painters, elementary schoolteachers and James Cameron alike -- holds that the original inhabitants of this continent were shining paragons of living in harmony with Mother Nature. But archaeology, and history, tell a different...

Opinion: World Talks, US Delivers on Global Warming

(Dec. 11) -- At the Copenhagen global warming conference this week, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson sought to reassure world leaders that the United States is "fighting to make up for lost time" on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Her plea is understandable. The U.S. constantly gets an earful on this...

Copenhagen by the Numbers

(Dec. 7) -- For the next 14 days, representatives from 192 nations will meet in Copenhagen for a long-awaited United Nations conference on climate change. Here, at a glance, are a few numbers that help explain what's going on in Denmark's capital. Zero Hour "The clock has ticked down to zero. After two years of...

What's the Greenest Place in America? Hint: It Has 8 Million People

Gregory Bull, AP People walk along the High Line, a park planted on a long-closed elevated train line in Manhattan. Quick, what's the greenest spot in America? Vermont, with its lush landscape and environmentally conscientious citizenry? Or maybe Oregon, with all those trees and people who love to hug them? Wrong on...