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Underscoring its gravity, climate change is driving what may be the single most important transition underway in our economy: the folding of energy's true cost into the prices of fossil fuels — and the impact of these prices on the development of new, carbon-free (or at least carbon-light) sources. Environmental Capital is the Wall Street Journal's spotlight on this central trend, a meaty, up-to-the-minute service fed by scrappy, tireless, and above all professional reporters — not activists, advocates or observers in their jammies. This blog is a live textbook for understanding the hole we're in, and how we're trying to climb out of it — even as we dig ourselves deeper.

Sample Environmental Capital post: Another cautionary tale about how not to fight climate change: By giving away greenhouse-gas emissions permits for free, Europe may hand power companies windfall profits of up to 71 billion euros — about $100 billion — and undermine the fight to curb emissions.

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Top Green Companies

A group of stalwart start-ups are turning clean technology into big business

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Top Green Websites

Covering Hollywood to the Hill, these 15 websites teach you everything you ever wanted to know about greening your life

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In the Time of Trees

Magnum Photographer Stuart Franklin has spent a decade exploring the beauty of trees and the unique place they occupy in man's world

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CO2: They Should Bottle That Stuff

Carbon capture is a crucial part of the global effort to stop warming. So, why hasn't it been implemented yet?

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The Greening of the Pentagon

According to a Pentagon-funded report, U.S. foreign dependence on oil, energy-inefficient troops and environmentally unfriendly forts threaten our national security

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Lessons From Germany

Germans have slashed greenhouse-gas emissions without sacrificing profits. Their secret? Yep, efficiency. Here's what the U.S. could learn