No, seriously. Whether environmentalists know it or not, there is a strong, “Environmental Justice Case for Domestic Oil Production.” From an environmental justice perspective, it makes little sense to import our oil from countries like Venezuela and Iran. Besides the fact that doing so will mean enriching the regimes of…

Hear me out. As the Boston Herald editorial board joins the rising chorus of voices from left and right urging President Joe Biden to ease back from his commitment to transition the U.S. …

So don’t bother. “To know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom,” according to Socrates. General Sun Tzu went a step further: “Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.” Over the past few weeks, as the days have passed since the Supreme…

In a stunning rout, French President Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute majority Sunday to the resurgent right and ascendent left. In French, they call it, “étonnement,”- it means, “a sudden wrenching self-beholding.” There are other words for it: Enlightenment, epiphany, satori. Lots of world languages have felt the need to…

Apple employees in Maryland have successfully unionized. “Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth,” famous labor organizer Eugene Debs once told a judge about to sentence him to prison…

Most of it comes from coal, natural gas and…petroleum. Where does electricity come from? The subject comes up occasionally when the CEO of a car company is asked about their plans to sell the world on electric cars. The exchange often goes something like this: Reporter: “Tell us about your…

We have met the enemy and he is us. Oh, you’ve never heard of Adani Carmichael? No one force on earth stands in the way of a global transition away from fossil fuels more than Adani Carmichael. Adani Carmichael is wealthy, slick, persuasive; seductive, some might say- impossible to resist. …

Oil companies are coming under scrutiny amid scorching summer gas prices. “At a time of war, refinery profit margins well above normal being passed directly onto American families are not acceptable,” President Joe Biden wrote in a letter this week, directing his blistering criticism at U.S. oil and gas companies. …

A Google chatbot may be our first brush with computer-generated sentience. Then again, maybe not. What is alive? What is a living thing? Determining what can be said to be “alive”; what science considers a living thing, rather than something merely existing, isn’t as simple as it sounds. Sure; a…