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

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

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.

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.