Obama Administration

An interview with journalist and historian Jeff Biggers, who deconstructs the myth of clean coal with the history of mining: "Coal had created a stunning anatomy of denial in every generation, including today. “Clean coal” was simply another motto that had been peddled in Chicago since 1895."

The Obama Administration released its budget proposal for 2011, with some New Green Economy items making the cut while others seem to be withering on the vine

The environmental organization ( and Climate Debt advocates) Friends of the Earth calls the agreement made in Copenhagen between the US, China, India and South Africa a "sham"

Obama announces a deal at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting to delay action on a climate treaty, continuing the policy of predecessors foot dragging on saving the planet's climate

Obama's Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced over the weekend that the Administration would keep Bush's limits on the Endangered Species Act protection of the Polar Bear, raising anger and eyebrows in the Environmental and Scientific community