Power Play

What People Close to Obama Think About the Keystone XL Pipeline

To environmentalists throughout the country, denying the Keystone XL oil pipeline would be the most important sign President Obama is committed to combating global warming. Read more »

5 Things Immigration, Gay Marriage, and Gun Control Have That Climate Change Doesn't

The amount of change happening in Washington is impressive, but this kind of sea change can’t happen right now with energy and climate policy. Here's why. Read more »

Senate Democrats Get Ready to Defend Obama's Climate-Change Rules

Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer is mounting a relentless defense of Obama’s global-warming rules. Read more »

MIA on Climate Change

This year’s unremitting heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and freak storms have thrust climate change back into the spotlight. But even with the issue fresh in people’s minds—not to mention in media coverage and Washington’s echo chamber—climate change hasn’t made it onto the priority list that matters most: the presidential campaign trail. Read more »

New England State of Mind

The small, energy-scarce states in New England breed environmentally-friendly Republicans like no other region in the country. Read more »