Green Options

Energy didn’t get a sniff in last night’s Obama press conference. That wasn’t really a surprise given the way that health care has elbowed its way into the political spotlight. You can count climate change among the “priorities” now in the shadows.

While I know the details of climate policy can be a little dry at times, I didn’t know it was quite this sleep-inducing.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu visits Jon Stewart at the daily show, and much to the host’s surprise (and unlike other members of the cabinet who’ve visited the show), Chu is alive.

Interview Jon Stewart did with EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.

Jon Stewart pokes a little fun at a coalition of Republican governors who deplore the money they are getting from the economic stimulus, so much so, that they are taking just about every penny of it.

Jon Stewart covers the bank bailout hearings on Capitol Hill.

For those of you who watched President Obama’s first-ever prime time press conference you may have seen a display of thoughtful, critical answers to questions from the White House press corps unlike anything we have seen over the last eight years; but Bill O’Reilly didn’t see it that way.

T. Boone Pickens brought his one-man clean energy road show to New York City and the studios of The Daily Show on Wednesday.

I once had someone suggest to me that environmentalists didn’t have enough fun. Granted, that person was a flame-throwing stilt walker, so her idea of fun might be a bit different from yours and mine. But the question remains: do environmentalists take themselves too seriously?

Now you may be shocked by this question. I was. I mean, if you can’t see the fun in trying to save the world from global warming and mass

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