As the White House continues to promote energy efficiency as a key component to solving the energy crisis, politicians and business leaders consider commercial buildings prime candidates for efficiency savings. Clean Skies News’ Susan McGinnis takes a look at “green” building and tours a building that’s won top-level recognition for energy efficiency.

Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, tells Clean Skies News that government policies and the use of new technologies are actively changing the big picture in the energy sector, but they need to be accelerated.

The U.S. has debated for decades the issue of offshore drilling, with the backlash largely sparked in 1969 by a major spill off the coast of Santa Barbara. Journalist and science writer Eric Roston and Kenneth Medlock, fellow at the Baker Institute, provide insight.

Clean Skies Sunday reports on the new reality for Senate Democrats. With only 59 Democratic votes, Tyler Suiters breaks down the future of energy legislation, a bill regulating the controversial act of hydro-fracking, and a push to nullify the EPA endangerment finding on greenhouse gases. Energy analyst Kevin Book discusses the possible merger between Exxon-Mobil and XTO. It’s been one month since the end of the Copenhagen talks, and Ned Helme, President of the Center for Clean Air Policy discusses what’s been done since then.And it’s an electrifying ride at the North American International Auto Show – we’ll show you the newest, greenest cars about to hit the road.

Margaret Ryan reports on White House Climate Change Advisor, Carol Browner, who assessed the Obama Administration’s progress on clean energy. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will hold a meeting tomorrow on the Cape Wind project. The Sierra Club and others are suing Massey Energy claiming it has violated 12,000 pollution laws. And Lee Patrick Sullivan is at the Detroit Auto Show where the vehicles are the greenest ever.

Some 15,000 delegates from 192 nations gather in Copenhagen for two weeks of negotiations on an agreement that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol and set new global carbon emission targets. At the heart of the deal must be a settlement between the wealthy countries and the developing world. Video courtesy of Reuters.

Chevron CEO, Dave O’Reilly and Sierra Club Executive Director, Carl Pope debate America’s Energy Future. (Part one of three)

On the eve of the inauguration, attendees of the Green Inaugural Ball and the Arkansas Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C. — including former President Bill Clinton — share their hopes for Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office.

At the ECO:nomics summit, former Vice President Al Gore discusses his 10-year plan to end utilities’ use of carbon-based fuels.

While gov’t must lean on business to tackle climate change, recall what happened with Clinton-Detroit’s new car project, and corn-based ethanol.

America’s growth, consumption has produced record CO2 levels; India, China are right behind with oil, coal, natural gas demand. Is the planet doomed?

United Nations, New York, 14 May 2009: The United Nations is leading a powerful new campaign to encourage governments to seal the deal on a fair, balanced and effective agreement on climate change