Alberta! Apparently lots of people live there? Who knew! Alberta is raising its carbon tax to $30 a ton by 2017, but that's project...

Under California's new "restrictions," everyone can still have giant lawns, golf courses, etc., and they can still give them u...

Winter was great for biking in Salt Lake City Watching network television news, you'd think the entire Earth had entered an Ice Age ...

After the party's drubbing in the 2012 elections, many political pundits speculated that Republicans would spend 2013 trying to seem les...

At The Atlantic's Cities Blog, Nate Berg points out that streetlights drain a huge amount of a community's budget, but thanks to new...

What did the White House do that so enraged former Wonkette editor Ken Layne that he had to come out of retirement to post on it? Oh, just...

Given that we've had a colder-than-normal December here in the DC area, I'm surprised I haven't read more silly "how can th...

From the LA Times : "A company owned by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch has contributed $1 million to Proposition 23, a Novembe...

As the Associated Press reports , 2007 gave us our best taste yet of what climatologists say is coming as our planet warms: When the calenda...

It's Tuesday night at 7:27pm and I'm sitting in National Airport waiting for my 5:40pm flight, which has been delayed until 10pm. A ...