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

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

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.

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

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.