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A problem: Climate change remains mostly a political story

By | 11.24.10 | 11:44 am

One of the standout moments in the last weeks of the heated U.S. Senate race in Colorado pitting Republican Ken Buck against Democrat Michael Bennet came when Buck appeared on the stump with famous climate-change-denying U.S. Senator James Inhofe,…

Colorado climate scientists aghast at Buck views on global warming

By | 10.26.10 | 3:01 pm

Members of Colorado’s world-renowned climate science research community blasted U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck at a conference Friday for touting his skepticism about global warming and supporting arch-climate change denier Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, who believes global warming…

Amid Meet the Press backlash, Buck embraces Inhofe anti-science politics

By | 10.21.10 | 9:48 am

“On behalf of the medical community, I denounce Ken Buck’s comments. We feel he should retract his statements. Science does not support his view…. I feel strongly that we should not be giving fodder for extremist ideology with statements contrary…

Olympic medalist, X Games champ Bleiler talks climate change at CU

By | 10.12.10 | 10:49 am

BOULDER — Champion snowboarder and Aspen native Gretchen Bleiler told students at CU Monday that she has been “chasing snow” for a decade and that the chase is getting more difficult every year.

“I’m definitely not a scientist.…

With Congress gridlocked on climate legislation, environmental groups forge ahead

By | 09.24.10 | 7:43 am

Despite the Gulf oil spill, a massive pipeline break in Michigan and broad concerns about global warming, ambitious climate-change and energy legislation is likely dead for the year. That poses a conundrum, going forward, for environmentalists: How to convince lawmakers of the need for legislation to sever the country’s decades-long ties to oil and to reform energy policy more generally?

Graham wiggles away from any near-term climate or energy bills

By | 06.08.10 | 2:54 pm

Well that just about does it for climate legislation. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells CongressDaily (subscription. req’d) that he’ll vote against the climate bill being developed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.):

“What I have withdrawn…

WATCH: Veteran group’s anti-oil ads rejected by FOX News as ‘too confusing’

By | 05.05.10 | 4:11 pm

The VoteVets political action committee, which aims to place military veterans in office, is also stridently in favor of any laws that would work to wean the United States off its dependency on oil– an addiction, the group says,…

Environmentalists fret over coming retirement of ‘rock star’ Justice Stevens

By | 04.12.10 | 11:32 am

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will retire this summer, a fact that has led conservatives to begin prepping for the coming appointment battle. Environmentalists are also already calculating the implications of the retirement. Jonathan Hiskes points out

DC’s climate change power brokers

By | 04.12.10 | 9:16 am

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will drop their climate change bill this month. Although success will depend on action and support from the Senate as a whole, key individuals inside and outside the halls of Congress will shape the legislation and steer it through the political and public relations minefields it will have to navigate successfully in order to pass into law. Here is a list of the ten climate legislation champions at the heart of the battle.

Enviro group claims Obama making Bush look good on coal mining

By | 04.06.10 | 5:25 pm

Recent lease approvals and signs that the Obama administration is falling in love with the nation’s coal industry have Jeremy Nichols of New Mexico’s WildEarth Guardians longingly reminiscing about the bygone days of the Bush administration.