In The News

This is an assortment of articles or podcasts that are recently available, usually for 30 days after publication.  If there is no link, then the article must be retrieved through the publication's archived files, or by locating a hard copy at your library. 

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American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot, Nelson D. Schwartz, NY Times, July 6, 2008.

Key Coal Plant Decisions Ahead, Scott Waltman, American News, Aberdeen, S.D., March 2, 2008.

House Votes to End Big Oil's Tax Breaks, Steven Mufson, Washington Post February 28, 2008

Coal-fired Plant Keeps Most Supporters, Bob Downing, Ohio.com, February 26, 2008.

Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining, John M. Broder, The New York Times, August 22, 2007

Gas Prices Rise on Refineries’ Record Failures, Jad Mouawad, The New York Times, July 22, 2007

Buying into the Green Movement, Alex Williams, The New York Times, July 1, 2007

Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet, Larry Magid, The New York Times, June 14, 2007

Congress Turns to Energy, and Lobbyists Arrive, Edmund L. Andrews, The New York Times, June 12, 2007

The Phantom Menace, Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe, June 10, 2007

The Coal Trap, Editorial, The New York Times, May 30, 2007. 

US rejects EU target for cutting emission, David Rising, AP, The Boston Globe, May 30, 2007

Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process, Edmund L. Andrews, The New York Times, May 29, 2007. 

Double Whammy, Tim Wacher, The Boston Globe, May 3, 2007.

Biotech Firms Sprint to Cut Ethanol's Cost, Stephen Heuser, The Boston Globe, April 30, 2007.

Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, But Is It Green?, Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times, April 29, 2007. 

Big Apple Going Green?, Tom Ashbrook, On Point, April 25, 2007

State Lands Solar-Panel Factory, Megan Woolhouse, The Boston Globe, April 18, 2007.  Interesting enough, this is two years after then Chancellor Schroeder of Germany announced a $34 million dollar grant to this Marlboro-based company to build a facility in Thalheim, Germany. 

Young, Old Urge Action of Global Warming, Michael Levenson, The Boston Globe, April 15, 2007. 

The Power of Trash, John Donelly, The Boston Globe, April 9, 2007

Wind Farm Project Dealt Setback by US Agency, Stephanie Ebbert, The Boston Globe, April 7, 2007. 

A Climate Change Warning, Beth Daley, The Boston Globe, April 7, 2007.

Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil, John Ghazvinian, Slate, Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2007, at 7:24 AM ET

No Longer Waiting for Rain, an Arid West Takes Action, Randal C. Archibold and Kirk Johnson, New York Times, April 4, 2007. 

Court Rebukes Administration in Global Warming Case, AP Release, New York Times, April 2, 2007. 

A Nice Stiff Breeze, and a Nice Little Power Bill, Jennifer Alsever, New York Times, April 1, 2007. 

Lumileds Rolls Out the Rebels, Optics.org, Issue #14, Week of March 28, 2007

Poorest Nations will Bear Brunt as World Warms, Andrew Revkin; New York Times, April 1, 2007. 

City of Lights will Soon Become City of Bikes, John Ward Anderson; The Boston Globe, April 1, 2007

Sydney Turns Lights Out for Conservation, Rohan Sullivan, AP; The Boston Globe, April 1, 2007. 

Warming Arctic Boosts Snow Geese Flocks, Tom Banse; Day to Day, March 27, 2007. 

Land of Possibility, Part II, March 28, 2007; Green and Growing, Part I, March 26, 2007; Editorial series on Japan's new energy efforts, Renée Loth; The Boston Globe.

They’re Looking for a Few Good Coal Miners, Stuart Elliott, New York Times, March 23, 2007. 

EU Seeks to Fight Climate Change with Taxes, Planet Network News, March 20, 2007

Hub Firm Leads Pact on Global Warming, John Donnely, The Boston Globe, March 20, 2007

A New Battery Takes Off in a Race to Electric Cars, Jason Pontin, New York Times, March 11, 2007


US to Invest $357M in Solar America Initiative, Optics News, March 11, 2007

A World Without Waste, Jessica Winter; The Boston Globe, March 11, 2007

Memos Tell Officials How to Discuss Climate, Andrew Revkin; New York Times, March 8, 2007

Dethroning King Coal, Editorial, The Boston Globe, March 5, 2007

What Will it Cost to Fight Global Warming?, Talk of the Nation, Feb 22, 2007

Building Greener, Guest host Jane Clayson, On Point, Feb 19, 2007

"Northern Exposure", Drake Bennett; The Boston Globe, Feb 18, 2007

"The Car, 2.0", Robert Weisman; The Boston Globe, Feb 18, 2007

AAAS Releases New Statement on Climate Change, Website of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Feb 18, 2007

Banks Are Urged Not to Finance Coal Power, John Donnelly, The Boston Globe, Jan 16, 2007

At-a-glance: The Stern Review, BBC News, Oct 30, 2006