Jan 13 Chu Vows to Fight Global Warming at Confirmation Hearing By Admin, PBS News Hour Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu said at a hearing Tuesday that if he is confirmed as energy secretary, he plans to aggressively pursue policies to combat global warming. Continue reading
Jun 18 Watch McCain and Obama Tout Differing Energy Plans Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are honing their stances on climate and energy policy, focusing on issues like the federal gas tax and offshore drilling. Advisers for each campaign examine the energy policy debate. Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch Extended Interview: Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla is an influential venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He was a cofounder of Sun Microsystems and later a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, which helped fund Google and Amazon. In 2004 he started his own… Continue watching
May 23 Revitalizing coal is the solution to our energy crisis Question/Comment: Your item on green jobs was very informative. While I knew that many towns in the coal and manufacturing belt in western Pennsylvania are shadows on their former selves, I did not know how much Pittsburgh has… Continue reading
Apr 25 Watch Pittsburgh Renews Itself With ‘Green’ Technologies Pittsburgh, once described as the nation's "dirtiest city," is working hard to reverse that image with new energy efficient initiatives. Paul Solman looks at how the Steel City has become reinvigorated by implementing new "green" energy technologies. Continue watching
Aug 17 Utah Mine Rescue Suspended After Three Die in Collapse By PBS News Hour Officials suspended efforts to rescue six trapped coal miners in Huntington, Utah Friday after a second collapse killed three and injured six people trying to find the miners. Continue reading
May 10 Watch Professor Touts Fossil Fuel Alternatives In the last installment of a series on climate change, a New York University physics professor who advocates carbon-free energy explains his perspective on wind power, solar fission and other technologies. Continue watching
May 01 Watch Energy Experts Debate Future Use of Coal In the fifth part of a series about how to deal with climate change, a coal industry advocate and the author of a book critical of the coal industry debate whether new coal technologies hold promise or peril. Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch Daylight Saving Time Arrives Earlier than Usual Daylight saving time, which usually begins the first week of April, will be start earlier by four weeks starting this year, due to federal legislation passed in 2005. Two authors examine the impact of advancing the start of daylight saving… Continue watching
Jan 24 Watch President Bush Proposes New Energy Initiatives In his State of the Union address, President Bush called for new domestic initiatives aimed at decreasing gas consumption by expanding the role of alternative fuels. Three energy experts analyze the viability of the president's proposed energy reforms. Continue watching