Tag: Climate Change

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report in September that said scientists have 95 percent confidence â the same confidence rate for the finding that smoking causes cancer â that humans contribute to global warming.

Energy and Environment

Poll: Republicans divided on climate change

Zack Colman · November 1, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama issued an executive order Friday that encourages state and local governments to strengthen their resilience to climate change and the extreme weather events associated with it.

Energy and Environment

Obama issues order to strengthen defenses against climate change

Zack Colman · November 1, 2013 4:00 am

Development banks such as the World Bank or the African Development Bank will need to meet more stringent criteria to obtain U.S. support for coal-fired power plants abroad under new guidelines released Tuesday. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

US toughens conditions to back development loans for coal

Bloomberg_News · October 29, 2013 4:00 am

New legislation being floated would require new coal-fired power plants to use carbon capture and sequestration technology. (AP File)

Energy and Environment

Rep. Ed Whitfield, Sen. Joe Manchin take aim at EPA regs

Zack Colman · October 28, 2013 4:00 am

Interest in the Arctic is higher today than ever. Covering one-sixth of the world's land mass and vast expanses of sea, it contains a wealth of untapped resources from minerals like rare earths and uranium to gushers of oil and natural resources. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

America is leaving itself out in the Arctic cold

James Jay Carafano · October 28, 2013 4:00 am

CitizenAudit allows people to view the IRS 990 forms of nonprofit organizations to see who contributes to organizations. (Screenshot: CitizenAudit.org)

CitizenAudit exposes the funding behind Big Green’s Colorado ‘netwar’

Ron Arnold · October 28, 2013 4:00 am

(AP/Charles Dharapak)

Treasury evasions on carbon tax email mock Obama’s ‘most transparent administration ever’ claim

Christopher Horner · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Corn growers want more, not less, ethanol gas. Cutting production, as proposed by EPA, would hurt farmers, says the ethanol industry. AP Photo

Energy and Environment

Obama caving in to big oil, cutting fuel standards, greens charge

Paul Bedard · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Former Vice President Gore said he believes climate change is a "legacy issue" for President Obama. (AP File)

Energy and Environment

Al Gore: Keystone XL is ‘an atrocity’

Zack Colman · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

Energy Secretary ErnestÃÂ Moniz said drought that some scientists have linked to climate change has posed risks to hydropower production. He noted that the Energy Department is undergoing a second round of assessments as to how climate change affects water resources.ÃÂ (AP/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Energy chief Ernest Moniz: Congress has ‘turned a corner’ on climate change

Zack Colman · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

Former Vice President Al Gore.

Beltway Confidential

Al Gore claims fossil fuels ‘bubble’ is about to burst

Ashe Schow · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

"Global warming is here, and we can work and get it fixed together," United Steel Workers president Leo Gerard said at the Power Shift conference in Pittsburgh. (AP File)

Energy and Environment

Environmentalists, workers seek common ground

Washington Examiner · October 20, 2013 4:00 am