British environmentalist Chris Goodall asserted last year, in his provocative book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, that driving your car to the supermarket could be better for the environment than walking there.

More than two years ago, now-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues promised what they called a “common sense” energy plan to bring down prices at the gas pump.

Accusing Congress of “pandering to the general public,” Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, Tuesday defended oil companies and proposed a $1-per-gallon gas tax to bring down demand.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, clinging to a slim chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination, passed up a chance to send an earmark reform measure to the Senate floor last week

Cleaner air may actually threatenthe Amazon rainforest, according to Brazilian and British climate scientists.

In order to remain competitive in the general election, John McCain will have to perform a Herculean task: Court the Hispanic vote without alienating the base of the Republican Party.