While everyone has had their eyes on Keystone XL, the Environmental Protection Agency has been quietly dismantling our dirtiest carbon emitters.
Sarah Laskow
Sarah Laskow is a journalist based in New York.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Attack of the Giant Grass!
Fueling the needs of biofuel factories could mean growing fields of 30-foot-tall grass, but no one’s positive it will stay where it’s told.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Slow and Steady Wins the Anti-Keystone XL Race
The southern end of the tar-sands pipeline is mostly completed, but the opposition is just getting started.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore, Keystone
Why did the tar-sands pipeline become the hot issue in a Massachusetts primary election thousands of miles away from where it might be built?
Posted inWorking in America
The Keystone Fight’s Labor Pains
The battle over the tar sands pipeline among unions has been XL on drama.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Keystone XL: A Year in Review
What has happened with the pipeline in the year since the Obama administration rejected TransCanada’s original permit?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s Worse than the Status Quo
Congress passed an extension on the farm bill, dismantling all the good programs, and leaving in all the old and inefficient ones.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Fracking versus the Boondocks
Promised Land bills itself as an environmental movie, but it’s far more concerned with preserving Dan Barry-esque small-town America mythology.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Weather Underground
New York City has been preparing for climate-borne threats to the transportation system for years.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Frankenclimate
Although the election season has been devoid of climate change talk, Hurricane Sandy makes our role in increasingly extreme weather patterns impossible to ignore.