It makes me happy to write these words: an advocate for the environment will be the next president of the United States.

Talk about transformation.

America is hungry for bold change. Now we have the opportunity to bring it about. Most significantly, President-elect Barack Obama has made it...

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I am a breast cancer survivor, and in the years immediately after my diagnosis, I sometimes found the annual proliferation of pink ribbons difficult--it was hard to be reminded of cancer every time I went into the grocery store or read the newspaper....

Some of our elected officials have assessed the current financial crisis and decided to back pedal on their commitments to build a clean energy future for America. But a report released today by Deutsche Bank's Asset Management Division confirms once again that in this economic downturn, green energy investments...

Last week I heard a great story on NPR's Morning Edition about how a tiny investment in an energy efficient window coating went on to save Americans billions of dollars on utility bills and jump start a green building boom.

It's a story arc that my colleagues are...

Congress finally wrapped up its business last week. It was a challenging session filled with terrible economic news, soaring energy prices, and a great deal of election-year political theater. Now that the dust has settled, we can take a look at what Congress actually did to address America's energy future....

Last week the Labor Department reported that 159,000 jobs were cut in September -- twice as many as the previous two months. Meanwhile, energy prices remain high and Congress just handed out taxpayer subsidies for a host of polluting and costly fuels.

It's been a hard fall. That's...

I am an environmental advocate. That means sometimes I travel to Washington to lobby Congress on behalf of the issues NRDC cares about. Big Oil companies dispatch lobbyists to the Hill as well. Last week we covered the same ground: the House vote on the energy bill.

Does...

This post originally appeared on NRDC's Switchboard blog.

Once again, Congress is in the midst of debating energy legislation. Unfortunately, the conversation is taking the same old wrong turns, even in the face of looming concerns for homeowners anticipating cold winters.
Many Americans had to put...

Today's Washington Post has a great op-ed written by Susan Hockfield about the urgent need for federal investment in energy research and development. Hockfield asserts that the best way out of our energy and economic crises is by shifting to clean, affordable, low-carbon energy production. But the only way...

Throughout the fall, you will hear Republican leaders use the phrase "All of the Above" to describe their energy policy. The idea is that our energy crisis is so significant that we need to take all the options on the list and throw them at the problem.
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I've written before about the simple steps people can take to help reduce energy use and cut global warming pollution. To the list of things you can do--such as buying efficient air conditioners and pumping up your tires--I want to add one more: turn on your television...

The Washington Post just ran an editorial highlighting an ad the NRDC Action Fund printed in the paper. The ad, which featured a drawing of President Bush holding a bottle of elixir, said the claim that offshore drilling will drive down gas prices is "100% Snake Oil."

The...

Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times that outrage is the proper response to last week's Congressional debate on offshore drilling. I agree. It is outrageous that in the face of the combined energy and economic crises, our representatives are fighting over a false promise that will neither...

2007 was the year that America's business pages turned green. Everybody wanted to get into the act. Companies from well-known leaders like Whole Foods and Toyota to historical laggards GM and ExxonMobil were touting their plans to save the planet.

There's no question that there is a...

Try to watch talking-head TV these days without seeing an ad proclaiming the wonders of coal. I know, you can't. The ads are darling. Bright-eyed tweens assuring us that "in my lifetime" new coal power plants can be "clean." From the looks of these kids, that gives big coal about...

Oblivious to headlines about oil prices, energy security and global warming, the White House this week quietly proposed a new fuel economy scheme that not only reaffirms this administration's staunch commitment to lousy gas mileage standards, but also tries to handcuff any future administration that might actually be interested in...