Concerned about your own carbon footprint or that of your family?  Check out the EPA’s Personal Emissions Calculator below, which is intended to help “ individuals (and households) reduce greenhouse gas emi ...

In 2007, California ’s Legislature passed two new laws on climate change. These bills, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are in addition to the landmark legislation signed into law last year—the California Global Warming So ...

Carbon offsets have been controversial since their inception. Paying someone else to reduce the amount of CO2 in the air in an effort to make up for one’s hedonistic lifestyle has always seemed like an easy sh ...

“Oh, to again have a president with the ethical compass of Richard Nixon!”

Was it a good day for the polar bears, or just a symbolic gesture?

A “Green Portfolio” partnership between the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Kohl Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) ...

Joe (and Jane) Sixpacks of the world beware:  Climate change may be hazardous to your hunting, your fishing and your beer drinking.

A new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), entitled “ Economic and Social Survey of Asia a ...

Don’t expect action from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the Bush administration on greenhouse gas emissions before this president’s term is up.

On Thursday, February 21, National Public Radio's Morning Edition ran a story tracing the growing trend of corporate and governmental investors to look more closely at the "carbon risk" of potential investments [ ...

Although the foundation of today’s Internet was built as a government project more than 40 years ago, relatively few people were using it at the beginning of the 1990s. Then Vice Preside ...

As someone who has built a successful law blog and who has been blogging daily for more than two years, I’ve been asked to write a series of posts talking about how to blog, what to do and what not t ...

The Green Building Finance and Investment Forum held on February 20-22 in San Francisco reinforced market trends which I have recently seen accelerating relative to the institutionalization of green building require ...

Two reports in the journal Science find biofuels cause more greenhouse gas emissions than traditional fuels when the effect of land changes are considered, as reported  Friday, February 8 ...

According to a recent news release from NASA’s Earth Observatory site ( http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ ), a link between changes in the temperature of the surface of the sea and increases in hurric ...