Following President Barack Obama’s opening speech at the COP21 climate change conference in Paris this week, more than 150 environmental, social justice, indigenous, and health groups called on the President to greatly increase the U.S. commitment to reducing carbon pollution. The message: keep at least 80% of U.S. fossil fuel reserves in the ground, and help…

Editor’s note: This week, at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, President Obama, President Hollande, and other world leaders launched Mission Innovation. The aim of this initiative is to accelerate global clean-energy progress and innovations in a cost-effective manner. As part of its contribution to Mission Innovation, the U.S. Government will seek…

In President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address he called for clean-energy sources to supply 80% of the country’s electricity by 2035, and for Congress to cut oil subsidies and invest in clean-energy instead.