Regardless of the path carbon reporting ultimately takes, there are signals now that help us understand where we are headed, write Liz Logan and Doug Kangos, partners at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Buried in the 2,300-page U.S. financial reform bill that President Obama signed on July 21 is a little-noticed provision taking aim at a very different type of market: the international trade in so-called “conflict minerals” from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

At age 33, Alex Kinnier was rising quickly through the ranks at Google, but he didn’t feel fulfilled.

Top executives of the five largest oil companies, including BP America, are answering questions from Congress about the Gulf oil spill, starting at 9:30 am today.

I submit that Americans have become too trusting and complacent toward multinational corporations – will the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico be a wake-up call? writes Rona Fried.

Why would we treat the alien and hostile environment of the deep ocean with any less caution that we treat space, where we go only with multiple back-up systems? asks environmentalist and documentarian Jean-Michel Cousteau.

The Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico should result in a sobering reassessment of the risks of offshore oil and gas development anywhere in the United States, but especially in the Arctic.

The on-site experience and drilling expertise that rig workers bring to their job is critical to the future design of sustainable energy production systems in a nation heavily dependent on both coal and oil, writes Dr. Beverly A. Sauer of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

Watch live coverage of BP, Transocean and Halliburton executives testifying at a Senate Energy Committee hearing about the accident in the Gulf of Mexico, live at 10am.

We must vigorously support stronger research targeting environmental carcinogens because there are simply too many unknowns about which combinations of chemicals are safe to use, writes Dr. Karl Kelsey of Brown University.

The renewable energy industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, and that’s with spotty government support, writes Rona Fried, CEO of SustainableBusiness.com.

BP welcomed an offer from the U.S. Defense Department to help
contain a massive oil slick from a deadly rig explosion that threatens the shorelines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Here is a map showing the latest oil spill forecast.

Innovation #1 explored by Gunter Pauli in the ZERI Foundation’s two-year project: The Blue Economy, the the self cleansing vortex in rivers provides one solution to treating water without the extensive use of chemicals and energy-intensive technologies.

Forty years of environmental successes should inspire a generation to build a clean energy economy – it’s good for global warming and good for the bottom line, writes Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.

The following is a list of 15 countries that planted at least 100,000 hectares in 2009 to genetically modified corn, soybeans, cotton and other crops, according to ISAAA. Ten countries planted less than 100,000 hectares.