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Yes Men take climate-change mockery of Chamber of Commerce into court

By | 03.30.10 | 11:12 am

Last October, popular corporate and government pranktivists the Yes Men staged a phony press conference in which they posed as representatives of the climate-change-denying U.S. Chamber of Commerce. They said they had changed course and were happily embracing national…

Udall: Rockefeller air pollution bill a Supreme Court end-around

By | 03.05.10 | 10:58 am

Democrats differ widely on whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should be able to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a form of air pollution under the Clean Air Act, and the rift seems to be mostly geographical and based on how much coal a state contains.

Xcel seeks nearly $180 million rate hike to cover coal-fired Comanche 3

By | 11.03.09 | 2:40 pm

Xcel Energy’s rate-case hearing before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission runs through the end of the week, with some wags saying the state’s largest utility intentionally asks for too much ($177.4 million) so the PUC can lop off $30…