Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh covers environment, energy and — when the need arises — particularly alarming diseases for TIME magazine. Before coming to New York, he worked for TIME in Hong Kong and Tokyo, where he developed an appreciation for spicy food, small apartments and the massive energy transformation underway in developing Asia.

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Environment

Obama Nominates a Fighter and an Engineer at the EPA and the Energy Department

By Bryan WalshMarch 04, 20130

Energy Secretary nominee Ernest Moniz and EPA nominee Gina McCarthy represent President Obama’s temperamental tendency towards compromise.

Environment

State Dept: Build the Keystone Pipeline or Not, the Oil Sands Crude Will Flow

By Bryan WalshMarch 04, 20130

While the environmental movement has made the Keystone XL pipeline a line in the sand for U.S. climate policy, the project itself will have little impact on carbon emissions and on climate change.

Viewpoint

Why the Debt Crisis Has Trumped the Climate Crisis—at Least in D.C.

By Bryan WalshFeb. 26, 20130

It’s telling that of two long-term challenges—each of which would demand some sacrifice now—our political and media culture has chosen to focus so overwhelmingly on debt.

Environment

Can An Outdoorsy CEO Manage the Interior Department’s Split Personality?

By Bryan WalshFeb. 07, 20130

REI chief Sally Jewell gets the nod to become President Obama’s next Interior Secretary. She’ll try to balance the department’s conservation and economic responsibilities.

Environment

Outgoing Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s Parting Warning on Warming

By Bryan WalshFeb. 02, 20130

“Ultimately we have a moral responsibility to the most innocent victims of adverse climate change.”

Environment

On Climate Change, Obama Talks and California Acts

By Bryan WalshJan. 29, 20130

The success or failure of California’s carbon cap-and-trade experiment may well decide whether national or even international action on global warming ever becomes a reality.

Environment

Obama Talked Climate Change in His Inaugural Address. Now Can He Do Something About It?

By Bryan WalshJan. 22, 20130

A comprehensive climate bill, barring some kind of miracle, isn’t going to happen. So here’s what the President can do to ensure his actions match his words on global warming.

Environment

2012 Was the Hottest Year in U.S. History. And Yes — It’s Climate Change

By Bryan WalshJan. 09, 20130

Last year was the hottest ever for the continental U.S. — and it wasn’t even close. Just in case you needed more evidence that the climate really is changing.

Environment

Climate Rules: Why Natural Gas Will Be the Big Winner in New Greenhouse Gas Regulations

By Bryan WalshMarch 27, 20120

Ever since comprehensive climate legislation died of neglect in the U.S. Senate in 2010, environmentalists have looked to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step in and save the day. According to the Supreme Court, the agency has the power—and the responsibility—to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act if the …

Viewpoint

Gas Prices and the Big GOP Lie

By Bryan WalshMarch 20, 20120

To hear the Republican presidential candidates tell it, President Obama is doing all he can — shy of changing the price signs at your local Mobil station — to raise the cost of gasoline. Last week Mitt Romney told Fox News that Obama “has done everything in his power to make it harder for us to get oil and natural gas in this …