Episode #08083

The Obama administration puts pressure on the coal industry, Stephen gets paid to explore the gender income gap, and Richard Hersh talks higher education. (00:34)

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Episode #08083

The EPA regulates power plant carbon emissions, and a revolutionary box spring bunker stores up to 105 weapons. (04:32)

Tags:  Tip/Wag,  Obama administration,  guns,  EPA,  environment,  Stephen's products,  pollution,  laws,  health,  Jimmy,  Osama bin Laden,  Saddam Hussein,  energy,  business,  photos,  weapons,  inventions,  safety,  sleep,  my mistake,  assassinations,  unions,  driving,  Lisa Jackson,  Address the Mess

Episode #08076

Actor Mark Ruffalo became an anti-fracking, clean water activist after seeing the technologies' detrimental impact on communities in Pennsylvania. (07:20)

Tags:  Mark Ruffalo,  interviews,  fracking,  pollution,  water,  energy,  accept your apology,  alternative energy,  North Dakota,  environment,  movies,  nailed,  oil,  Germany,  Pennsylvania,  Incredible Hulk,  housing,  America,  elitism,  advertising,  protests,  science

Episode #08071

While campaigning in the South, Rick Santorum scoffs at global warming while Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich mock Barack Obama's energy plan. (03:41)

Tags:  the South,  Republicans,  primaries,  energy,  cars/trucks,  gas prices,  global warming,  alternative energy,  Newt Gingrich,  Mitt Romney,  Rick Santorum,  speeches,  American Samoa,  Barack Obama,  environment,  under the desk,  science,  gardening,  education,  dogs,  Exxon,  the moon,  STDs,  mental health,  candidates,  campaigns,  Indecision 2012

Episode #08069

Fox News contributor Eric Bolling has a secret plan to lower gas prices by a dollar -- if only President Obama would call him. (05:49)

Tags:  Eric Bolling,  phone calls,  pranks,  gas prices,  Fox News,  oil,  Obama administration,  Barack Obama,  Justin Bieber,  challenges,  birth control,  money,  impressions,  super villains,  flags,  fires,  energy,  conservative,  pets,  media

Episode #08063

Think of all that Stephen has accomplished in 1,000 Colbert Report episodes. (03:06)

Tags:  I Did It!,  The Simpsons,  under the desk,  competitions,  food,  TV,  Conan O'Brien,  animation,  toys & games,  energy,  anniversaries

Episode #08063

With the economy on the upswing, Barack Obama's approval rating soars, but one thing could put the breaks on his momentum. (05:38)

Tags:  John Kilduff,  appearances,  Barack Obama,  approval ratings,  gas prices,  economy,  oil,  alternative energy,  driving,  cars/trucks,  Iran,  Middle East,  international affairs,  dogs,  Mitt Romney,  Rick Santorum,  debates,  Republicans,  candidates,  Dwight D. Eisenhower,  Indecision,  Indecision 2012,  animals,  energy

Episode #08058

Rick Santorum calls on humans to husband the earth's resources before fracking her good all night long. (04:42)

Tags:  Rick Santorum,  polls,  Satan,  Bible,  Christian,  religion,  wars,  Hell,  Barack Obama,  mongering,  energy,  oil,  environment,  fracking,  Address the Mess,  God,  America,  Jimmy,  marriage,  photos,  candidates,  Republicans,  Indecision 2012,  Adam and Eve

Episode #08056

Activist Bill McKibben talks about the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline and calls on Colbert Nation to sign his petition opposing its construction. (04:43)

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Episode #08028

Sir Richard Branson believes that business leaders have a responsibility to try to solve some of the world's biggest problems. (06:33)

Tags:  Richard Branson,  interviews,  books,  business,  capitalism,  wealth,  accountability,  Occupy Wall Street,  Air Colbert,  protests,  cults,  government,  global warming,  oil,  energy,  alternative energy,  money,  economy,  facial hair,  lookin' good,  flying,  travel,  space,  fights,  fires,  audience interaction

Stephen pays tribute to the Washington insiders who pick up the lunch bill and write the legislative bill. (04:13)

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Stephen sheds some light on Congressional representatives -- those shy, elusive creatures with brief, two-year terms. (03:43)

Tags:  On Topic,  exclusives,  mashups,  Congress,  9/11,  founding fathers,  Constitution,  Democrats,  Senate,  holidays,  Harry Reid,  Republicans,  energy,  oil,  oil spills,  House of Representatives,  debt,  government,  economy,  John Boehner,  Allen West,  Joe Barton,  BP,  Barney Frank,  filibusters,  Tea Party

Episode #07122

NASCAR employs a ruinous set of green initiatives, and the NFL institutes tighter stadium security, starting at the ankles. (04:06)

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Episode #07119

Author Daniel Yergin discusses hydrofracking, alternative energy sources and America's decreasing demand for oil. (05:54)

Tags:  Daniel Yergin,  interviews,  oil,  books,  alternative energy,  technology,  energy,  fracking,  money,  gas prices,  economy,  environment,  international affairs,  China,  America,  shortages,  Barack Obama,  Ronald Reagan,  marijuana,  Heroe$ Crawl,  safety,  Address the Mess

Episode #07115

Al Gore talks about his work on the Climate Reality Project and marvels at the sophistication of Stephen's global warming metaphor. (06:43)

Tags:  Al Gore,  interviews,  Nobel Prize,  Democrats,  Rick Perry,  Republicans,  global warming,  weather,  environment,  Address the Mess,  science,  economy,  money,  Galileo,  international affairs,  Middle East,  China,  oil,  energy,  movies,  documentaries,  Keith Olbermann,  Heroe$ Crawl,  An Inconvenient Truth,  wars

Episode #07108

Frank Luntz will help Stephen create a Colbert Super PAC ad that works for Democrats and Republicans and scores with the South and the North. (07:10)

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Episode #07095

Particle physicist Brian Cox talks about the future of the universe and the possibility of the Higgs boson particle. (06:46)

Tags:  Brian Cox,  interviews,  books,  science,  space,  Large Hadron Collider,  future,  time travel,  energy,  sexual advances,  basic cable

Episode #07091

John Prendergast talks about the birth of South Sudan, the creation of its flag and the oil curse that might plague its future. (04:59)

Tags:  John Prendergast,  interviews,  Sudan,  wars,  Africa,  George W. Bush,  Jimmy,  South Sudan,  flags,  oil,  energy,  corruption,  money,  America,  international affairs,  voting

Episode #07087

The natural gas industry tries to counter bad press, and Michael Shermer claims to be the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine. (00:34)

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Episode #07087

To promote fracking, Talisman Energy releases Talisman Terry the Frackosaurus, the funnest energy extraction-based character since Mountaintop Mining Manny. (05:34)

Tags:  Andrew Cuomo,  same-sex marriage,  gay/homosexual,  energy,  Pennsylvania,  kids,  health,  environment,  New York,  laws,  dinosaurs,  comics,  Address the Mess,  death,  mental health,  hot dogs