Category: Energy

America’s Death Throes

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — China and Russia have already ditched the US dollar in their vast energy trade. Now China is leveraging Saudi Arabia to also abandon the greenback for oil sales. No wonder, it seems, that US…

In Beijing, and Washington, a Breath of Foul Air

Our Score The scene in a Beijing park in December. The city’s air quality is routinely rated “very unhealthy.” Credit Wang Zhao/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When friends cautioned me about Beijing’s notorious air pollution recently, ahead of my first…

Fukushima Backlash Hits Japan Prime Minister

Our Score Nuclear power may never recover its cachet as a clean energy source, irrespective of safety concerns, because of the ongoing saga of meltdown 3/11/11 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Over time, the story only grows more horrific,…

Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power

Our Score Focus on climate change has raised profile of reactors, now viewed as reliable, carbon-free source of energy Some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in…