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  • Media Mayhem: Hold your applause

    Mon, Feb 23, 2009 6:06 AM

    Over the years, for multiple presidents from both parties, the State of the Union address serves as a mini-telethon of good intentions and unfulfilled promises.

  • Obama taps Chu for DOE

    Mon, Feb 23, 2009 3:54 AM by PlentyMag.com

    President Obama's choice for Department of Energy signals commitment to environmental issues

  • Dear Mr. President: Stop mountaintop removal mining

    Fri, Feb 20, 2009 4:56 PM by Shea Gunther

    Americans are living under siege, subject to booming blasts and toxic fallout as mountains disappear in the race for cheap coal.

  • MNN's week in review

    Fri, Feb 20, 2009 10:53 AM

    Need to catch up? Here's a round-up of our best stories for the week beginning Feb. 15.

  • How green is all that green?

    Sat, Feb 14, 2009 6:57 AM by Devereaux Bell

    What's in the stimulus bill that will benefit environmental causes.

  • MNN's week in review

    Fri, Feb 13, 2009 12:06 PM

    Need to catch up? Here's our compilation of the week's best stories for the week starting Feb. 8, 2009.

  • Desperate: Glenn Beck calls Gore a Nazi

    Fri, Feb 06, 2009 1:31 PM by Shea Gunther

    Right-wing buffoon and global-warming denier Glenn Beck weakly compares Al Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

  • President Obama introduces Republican Senator Judd Gregg.

    Green States: Fiends of the earth

    Fri, Feb 06, 2009 4:49 AM

    Environmental change has hit Washington, but not everyone’s with the program.

  • Environmental progress timeline

    Thu, Feb 05, 2009 11:08 AM

  • Hunting for green in the stimulus plan

    Mon, Feb 02, 2009 10:40 PM by Shea Gunther

    ReadTheStimulus.org allows anyone to search and read through the 1,588 page House Stimulus Bill.

  • How would you green the economy?

    Fri, Jan 30, 2009 6:26 PM

    The Obama administration launches a plan to green the recovery. Now it's your turn to be heard.

  • End o' the week green politics wrapup

    Fri, Jan 30, 2009 1:56 PM by Shea Gunther

    The Department of Interior is getting back together with Science, the GOP is standing in the way of the recovery, and Senator Inhofe is slinging more lies.

  • MNN's week in review

    Fri, Jan 30, 2009 1:48 PM

    Need to catch up? Here's our compilation of the week's best stories.

  • Insider video from the Green Inauguration Ball

    Wed, Jan 28, 2009 11:16 AM by Karl Burkart

    Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi and a roster of stars get revved up about a green future.

  • Political Habitat: Emission, impossible?

    Wed, Jan 28, 2009 6:05 AM

    Obama steals a play from the Reagan/Bush playbook, and hopes for the opposite result.

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