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 16 Britain, E.U. to Tighten Sanctions Against Iran By PBS News Hour Britain will freeze assets of Iran's largest bank in a new move to discourage the country from developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday as President Bush continued his farewell trip to Europe with a visit to London. Continue reading
Jun 02 Nuclear Inspectors Head to Syria to Look at Site Bombed by Israel By PBS News Hour International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei announced Monday that an inspection team was heading to Syria June 22 to clear up the lingering mystery about a Syrian military site bombed in an Israeli raid in September. Continue reading
May 27 Watch IAEA Voices ‘Serious Concern’ on Iran’s Nuclear Ability The International Atomic Energy Agency released a report Monday stating that Iran's suspected research into nuclear weapons remained "a matter of serious concern." Analysts examine what actions the international community should take. Continue watching
May 16 Six Years On, Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository Slowly Moves Forward By PBS News Hour Energy Department officials confirmed this week that they plan to submit an application in June to license the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump as the nation's first spent-nuclear fuel repository. Continue reading
Apr 25 Watch Analysts Mull N. Korea’s Link to Syrian Nuclear Site Following the CIA's release of information on Thursday linking Syria's supposed nuclear reactor site to North Korean technology, analysts review the evidence and discuss the future of relations between the U.S. and North Korea. Continue watching
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
Apr 24 U.S. to Illustrate N. Korea-Syria Nuclear Ties By PBS News Hour CIA Director Michael Hayden and other intelligence officials are briefing House and Senate members Thursday on classified evidence linking North Korea to a Syrian nuclear facility that Israel bombed in September 2007. Continue reading
Mar 28 North Korea Missile Test Renews Nuclear Jitters By PBS News Hour North Korea test-fired a battery of short-range missiles Friday in what some analysts viewed as a show of the reclusive state's anger at Washington and South Korea's new conservative government. Continue reading
Feb 26 Watch N.Y. Philharmonic Strikes Accord in N. Korea with Concert The New York Philharmonic performed in North Korea Tuesday, the first major U.S. cultural organization -- and the largest contingent of Americans -- to visit the isolationist country in more than 50 years. Experts evaluate the event and its historical… Continue watching