White House Issues Veto Threats For Two GOP Environment Bills

The White House has threatened to veto two GOP measures taking aim at Obama administration climate efforts. Lawmakers will consider Wednesday a bill from Rep. Ed Whitfield ...

Shell To Resume Arctic Drilling Off Alaska As Green Groups Warn Of Disaster

Environmentalists accuse the government of ?looking the other way? after US gives green light for Shell to restart drilling for OIL and gas The US government has given Shel...

New safety rules for offshore Arctic drilling proposed to avoid repeat of Shell disaster

US officials want to make sure companies can handle a blow-out in remote and icy conditions – without inflicting an environmental disaster The Obama administration pr...

The U.S. Military Worries About Climate Change, So Why Don't Republicans?

On Friday, the Obama administration put climate change on the par with other global challenges like cybersecurity, terrorism, and Russian aggression, warning in a 35-page n...

An Alternative Exploration of Geopolitics

Hindsight is always 20/20. Subjective to the present, we often tend to overlook patterns and correlation until the objectivity parts the seas to a broader picture. It was o...

5 things to know about coal trade, global warming

As the Obama administration weans the US off polluting fuels blamed for global warming, energy companies have been sending more of America’s unwanted energy leftovers...

Congress’s head-in-the-sand approach to climate change

ANY GOOD business executive knows that the world is full of risks, ignored at a company’s peril. Interest rates could spike. China could change its currency policy. C...

Obama: I take full responsibility for fixing health site

US President Barack Obama has accepted “full responsibility” for ensuring the troubled healthcare website gets fixed.

Speaking in Boston, he said he was...

Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...