President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn.