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Tag: Global Warming
Graham wiggles away from any near-term climate or energy bills
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...
WATCH: Veteran group’s anti-oil ads rejected by FOX News as ‘too...
The VoteVets political action committee, which aims to place military veterans in office, is also stridently in favor of any laws that would work...
Environmentalists fret over coming retirement of ‘rock star’ Justice Stevens
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will retire this summer, a fact that has led conservatives to begin prepping for the coming appointment battle....
DC’s climate change power brokers
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
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...
Yes Men take climate-change mockery of Chamber of Commerce into court
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...
Tea Partying Diggs Brown on global warming: ‘Dinosaurs weren’t driving cars’
Nothing goes over at a Tea Party forum quite like jokes about Al Gore and global warming. National Guardsman Diggs Brown, who is running...
Global warming skepticism continues to rise in the U.S.
Americans continue to grow more skeptical of the threat of global warming, with a new Gallup poll showing that nearly half of all Americans...
Romney among dwindling Republican members of ‘global warming cult’
One-time presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wrote a book to gain publicity in advance of an all-but-certain 2012 presidential run. He may have terribly miscalculated,...
State Rep. Levy plans bill to clean up electric co-op elections
A Boulder lawmaker says she’ll introduce a bill next session aimed at cleaning up questionable campaign practices in rural electric association (REA) board elections.Claire Levy, D-Boulder, told the Colorado Independent Tuesday she is still working on a draft of the bill she’ll introduce in the upcoming legislative session in January, but she outlined the basics.