Green investors who went in for Jimmy Carter-era tax incentives got burned in 1985, when the credits disappeared, taking renewable energy research projects with them.
Funny how people forget the day before yesterday but remember not to trust US clean energy opportunities. A Deutsche Bank study last fall found North America to be a relatively risky [...]

Mountaintop removal mining is just one facet of a debate that is gearing up to be as heated as health care reform, as lawmakers consider climate-inspired legislation that would fundamentally redefine the nation’s relationship with coal.

“The coal industry is under attack and West Virginia is ground zero for that attack,” an industry representative says.

The Beaufort Sea’s coastline is disintegrating at alarming speed.

Permafrost cliffs are tumbling into the ocean and melting away, and now the process is caught on a new video of time-lapse photographs.

“It could be related to some of the changes that are happening and that have been reported in the Arctic, like declining sea ice in the summer and increasing sea temperatures,” says a scientist studying the coast.

The Mississippi River Delta is drowning, according to new research that predicts the surrounding coastline will be significantly reshaped in coming decades.

“There’s just not enough sediment to sustain the delta plain,” said the study’s author.

Alaska’s coast is drifting into the sea at twice the rate it has in the past, reshaping the Arctic shoreline, a new study says.
The trend could seriously threaten the area’s caribou and other wildlife, as well as local landmarks that document human settlements.
Some stretches of the state’s northern shore along the Beaufort Sea receded [...]