Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?