climate

Support for building more nuclear power plants in this country hasn't waned among many who are concerned over global warming, despite the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan.

If the government truly wants America to go green, it's going to have to shell out to support the nascent but important sector of our economy.

Green jobs and renewable energy were boldly funded in the stimulus bill, yet whenever Congress and the Obama administration need to scare up capital to fund some other program, they chip away at the initial $37 billion allocated for climate and energy-related efforts.

Health care isn't the only item lawmakers have to tackle. Tamara Keith reports that Congress' to-do list also includes climate legislation and reforming the financial regulatory system.

According to the most recent installment of the Philanthropic Giving Index from the Center on Philanthropy, fundraisers are more pessimistic about the current giving environment than they have been since the center began conducting the survey in 1998....