Energy & Environment
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Uruguay’s Green Energy Policy: The World’s Best Kept Secret?
Why don't we talk about Uruguay's green energy policy?
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Lions and Tigers and Bears: Inside the Exotic Animal Trade
Learn about the exotic animal trade--from hunting to breeding and trafficking.
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Power Plants and Carbon Pollution: What Can the EPA Do?
What's next on the EPA's agenda to curb American carbon emissions?
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Government vs. Environmentalists: Who is Protecting Marine Wildlife?
How can the Navy practice without hurting marine mammals?
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Nuclear Energy: Worth the Risk?
It's sustainable, but also risky.
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Corporate Greenwashing and Global Warming
Why individualist approaches to global warming can sometimes be harmful.
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Carbon Dioxide Capture: Can it Stop Global Warming?
How can removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere help our environment?
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California’s Drought: Costs and Consequences
What does California's drought mean for the American southwest?
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American Flood Insurance: The Biggert-Waters Act and Beyond
The Biggert-Waters Act attempted to reform the United States' flood insurance program--did it work?
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The Keystone XL Pipeline: Economic Breakthrough or Environmental Disaster?
They Keystone XL Pipeline is currently up for political debate--but what are the arguments for and against it?
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Cap and Trade: The Solution to Climate Change?
What exactly is cap and trade and how can it help our environment?
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Daylight Saving Time: Have We Outgrown the Need?
Daylight Saving Time has become a ubiquitous practice twice a year.
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Fracking and the Environment
Fracking. The word is thrown around in newspapers, in political debates, in discussions about the future of our global...
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The Politicization of Natural Gas Exports
The world has a complicated relationship with non-renewable resources.
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Logging in National Parks and Forests: A Contentious Debate
Logging was once a major industry in the western United States and often supported entire towns in rural areas....
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The Heat is On: The Debate Over Woodburning Stoves
Wood is the oldest and most reliable source of heat known to man. Twelve million Americans still use wood...
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Debating Resource Exploitation in the Arctic and Antarctic
As a world, we're constantly on the lookout for new ways to obtain our non-renewable resources.
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EPA Rules Aim to Phase Out Sulfur in Gas: What Does it Mean For Your Wallet?
Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new guidelines for what gasoline can contain. The motive behind...
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The Tax Credit Battle Over Environmentally Friendly Cars
In a world where the price of gas is costly for both our wallets and the environment, environmentally friendly...
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Airgun Testing For Oil Reserves is a Controversial Environmental Issue
The global community is quickly working its way through the natural resources available to us.
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Max Baucus’ Tax Plan: Could it Work?
On December 18, 2013, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus unveiled a discussion draft for an energy tax reform plan...
