So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

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

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

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

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

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

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.