Fossil Fuels

On Capitol Hill, industry has repeatedly lobbied to death labor and environmental groups' demands for tighter regs. And as long as the McCarthy confirmation standoff continues, an executive order …

Mike Ludwig continues to cover the impact of fracking across the country.

As lawmakers in Washington continue to ignore the most pressing issue facing our planet today, we are about to pass a very disturbing environmental milestone.

Nearly a dozen US cities have announced their interest in withdrawing municipal investments from fossil fuel companies.

Labor and community organizer Stephen Lerner argues that love really is part of the answer to resisting the oncoming apocalypse.

Author-activist Ozzie Zehner talks with Truthout about the limitations of the productivist mentality that infects the worldview of many environmentalists in a world with finite resources.

Lowering speed limits would be relatively painless and would save consumers money, with no upfront costs.

President Obama's pick to become the nation's next secretary of energy is drawing criticism for his deep ties to the fossil fuel, fracking and nuclear industries.

Researchers at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration report that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere underwent one of its largest single-year jumps ever in 2012.

Residents are critical not only of BP, but of government capitulation to the corporate giant.