Steven Donziger, Chevron, Ecuador’s Environmental Rights : The New Yorker

The jungle outpost of Lago Agrio is in northeastern Ecuador, where the elevation plummets from the serrated ridge of the Andes to the swampy lowlands of the Amazon Basin. Ecuadorans call the region the …

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Obama’s Climate Betrayal : The New Yorker

Some international disputes are significant for symbolic reasons, others for substantive ones. The current conflict between the United States and the European Union over airline-emissions limits is both. Unfortunately this means that the U.S. is doubly on the …

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Springtime for Toxics – NYTimes.com

Here’s what I wanted for Christmas: something that would make us both healthier and richer. And since I was just making a wish, why not ask that Americans get

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Climate Scientists Hampered in Study of 2011 Extremes – NYTimes.com

At the end of one of the most bizarre weather years in American history, climate research stands at a …

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Marcellus Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, and the E.P.A. : The New Yorker

Americans have never met a hydrocarbon they didn’t like. Oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, tar-sands oil, coal-bed methane, and coal, which is, mostly, carbon—the country loves them all, not wisely, but too well. To the extent that the United States has an energy policy, it is perhaps best summed up as:

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The Fracturing of Pennsylvania – NYTimes.com

Amwell Township is a 44-square-mile plot of steep ravines and grassy pasturelands planted with alfalfa, trefoil and timothy in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania. It’s home to some 4,000 people, most of whom live in …

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Obama Mans Up on the Keystone Pipeline Decision | Jeff Goodell | Rolling Stone

Maybe it is the threat of thousands of protestors circling the White House this weekend. Or maybe he’s sick of being pushed around by Big Oil (ha!).  Or maybe he just gets it.

Whatever his motive, President Obama has signaled that he’s gonna man up on the Keystone XL pipeline decision, suggesting …

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Pollution and evolution: Waters of change | The Economist

IT IS not often that biologists have a chance to watch natural selection in action. The best-known cases—the evolution of resistance to antibiotics in bacteria and to pesticides in insects—are responses to deliberate changes people have made in the environment of the creatures concerned. But mankind has caused lots of accidental changes as well, and these also offer …

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