Every day, the United States alone releases more than 19 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. This fact and the unprecedented danger it poses to society inarguably need to be addressed.

In the United States there are 65 running nuclear power plants. There have been no new facilities built since construction of the final reactor began in 1977.

If you’ve filled up at the pump recently, you probably were reminded how much it costs to drive. But all the gas, insurance, repairs and other things you pay for are not the only costs of driving. Your contribution to traffic congestion places cost on other drivers, your wear and tear on the roads puts cost on taxpayers, and cost is born by the environment due to the pollution from your car.

Is that little bit of extra money for organic foods actually worth it in the long run? Stanford U. doesn’t think so.

The U.S. economy added just 80,000 jobs in June, a third-straight month of weak hiring. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, but it would have been much worse without the boom in domestic oil and gas production.