Just like a light bulb that burns intensely bright just before it goes dark for good, the Republican majority in the House is burning intensely before its light goes out and it votes to repeal energy efficiency standards for light bulbs. Read more »more »
President Obama privately met with the head of the Senate energy committee about drafting legislation to set a minimum level of clean energy that power companies must produce. And he delivered a speech in Pennsylvania touting the plan for a "clean energy standard" as well as promoting other initiatives -- some of which a don't require congressional approval -- to improve energy-efficiency in buildings. On one hand, this is heartening. But did the president make a mistake in offering another unilateral concession? Read more »more »
It wouldn't appear to make much sense for the President to prioritize the climate crisis in his State of the Union address. But he should, for one simple reason: his Environmental Protection Agency has already begun doing something about it. So he best defend it. Read more »more »
The House passed a bill to expand coastal drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and eastern seaboard without careful consideration of environmental and safety risks. Instead of allowing America to keep its own energy, the House bill simply continues taxpayer subsidies to multinational oil companies so they can sell the oil wherever in the world they like and rake in obscene profits. Read more »more »
Newt Gingrich is supposed to be the intellectual leader of the conservative movement. Yet his fellow conservatives were completely uninterested in following his lead away from denying climate science and towards climate solutions. Read more »more »
Sen. Rand Paul said that hasn't had a functioning toilet in his home for 20 years. He seems to believe the federal government is not allowing him to own a functioning toilet. Bill Scher owns a functioning toilet, so, flush with facts, he walks the senator through the process of how a federal environmental regulation spurs private-sector innovation as well as public benefits. Rand Paul's anti-government arguments are shown to be full of ... Read more »
Related: Grist picks up the Rand Paul toilet challenge. More »more »
The Washington Post published an investigative report on how fossil fuel companies are "spending significant sums of money" to directly fund public schools that teach biased curriculums that promote their industries. Read more »more »
Just like a light bulb that burns intensely bright just before it goes dark for good, the Republican majority in the House is burning intensely before its light goes out and it votes to repeal energy efficiency standards for light bulbs. 
Sen. Rand Paul said that hasn't had a functioning toilet in his home for 20 years. He seems to believe the federal government is not allowing him to own a functioning toilet. Bill Scher owns a functioning toilet, so, flush with facts, he walks the senator through the process of how a federal environmental regulation spurs private-sector innovation as well as public benefits. Rand Paul's anti-government arguments are shown to be full of ... 
