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Study: Shale Gas Worse than Coal for Climate [VIDEO]

Opinion: Why Aren't Environmentalists Cheering Higher Gas Prices?

As gasoline prices continue to rise faster than station owners can update their signs, so too have calls to do something about the problem. Some Democrats are calling on President Barack Obama to uncork the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help ameliorate the pain at the pump. Republicans are renewing calls for more domestic...

EPA Moves Unilaterally to Curb Greenhouse Gases

WASHINGTON - Stymied in Congress, the Obama administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on power plant and oil refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the agency's website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator...

Opinion: Why We Need to 'Cool It' on Global Warming

(Nov. 12) -- For 20 years now, we've been debating what (if anything) we should do about global warming, with very little to show for it. Despite grandiose pledges such as the 2008 promise by the Group of Eight industrialized nations to work to cut global carbon emissions in half by 2050, no meaningful international...

Two Decades Later, Hole in the Ozone Layer Still Not Fixed

(Oct. 26) -- Fixing the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica was supposed to be environmentalists' finest hour. In the late 1970s, an insidious, commonplace group of chemicals (chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs) was discovered to be causing horrible damage to the ozone layer. Governments were informed, CFCs were banned in...