Tag: Congress - Page 7
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Mitt Romney Too Retreats Towards Climate Denial
And then there was one. Jon Huntsman is now the only remaining candidate who understands the importance of respecting science. Mitt Romney had previously roused the hopes of sentient, rational-thinking
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On the Environment, Ron Paul is Even Crazier Than Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry
Out of all the GOP presidential contenders, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann have been snagging the limelight in green circles lately -- the former for saying he wants a "moratorium" on all regulations, the latter
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Jon Huntsman: When "the Republican Party Becomes the Anti-Science Party, We Have a Huge Problem" (Video)
It's like music to mine ears: A Republican presidential candidate talking sense on science -- and climate science, to boot. GOP presidential candidate Jon Hunstman let loose in a fiery interview on
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New York to Fight Poaching, Torture of Bears with Ban on Sale of Their Gall Bladders and Bile
This headline might surprise you if you didn't know that the bile produced by bears' gall bladders is a valuable commodity in traditional Chinese medicine. The commercial nature of the bile leads
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Bipartisan Fact Checkers Take GOP Climate Hoax Statements to Task
Earlier this week, a few bloggers and enviros were calling on the former GOP presidential candidate (and former, former climate advocate) Tim Pawlenty to come clean on his opportunistic global warming flip
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Fight Brews in GOP Over Extreme Climate Change Denial
Rick Perry has kept himself busy since announcing his intention to run for president -- after calling for a moratorium on all new regulations and referring to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke as "treasonous", he
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Michele Bachmann: As President, I Will Bring You $2 Gas (Video)
File this one under 'wishful thinking'. In a campaign speech, GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann -- now considered a front-runner after finishing first in the influential Iowa straw poll -- explained that if she were in charge, she'd bring the
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GOP Spinmaster Teaches Stephen Colbert How to Sugarcoat Oil Drilling & Global Warming (Video)
Frank Luntz is arguably one of the biggest reasons the United States has been able to dodge taking action to address climate change for so long -- in an infamous memo (which was leaked and obtained by a green group), he
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It's Official: The GOP Field Will Have No Environmental Advocate
It's hard to fathom that just three years ago, the Republican presidential candidate had wholly endorsed cap and trade. As in, John McCain repeatedly pledged to fight climate change by putting a price on
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The Simplest Multi-Billion Dollar Budget Cut of All: Oil Subsidies
If you're looking for compelling evidence that GOP power brokers don't really care about reducing the deficit -- beyond purporting to do so in order to push their anti-government spending narrative, of course --
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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Building Tar Sands Pipeline "Will Keep America Addicted to Oil" (Video)
Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, last captured the nation's attention with his passionate sort-of-filibuster that took on the rising income inequality gulf in America, and skewered a political culture that increasingly favors the
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"Green-Friendly" Republicans In This Congress Are Anything But
And the bar has officially been lowered. If the media sees it somehow newsworthy that "greens" are not absolutely "friendless" in the House GOP merely because a few Republicans voted to allow the Endangered Species
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Trent Lott Calls for a Higher Gas Tax (Video)
Man, if Trent Lott thinks a higher gas tax is a good idea, there's no reason hardcore Tea Partiers couldn't too, right? I mean, Trent Lott was Tea Party before it was cool. He took jabs at the civil rights movement, thought being gay was a sin, and
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How Climate Change Became a "Litmus Test" for Republicans
There's nothing extraordinarily groundbreaking in the analysis the American climate scientist Raymond S. Bradley offers in his tour de force op-ed in the Guardian today, but he details our nation's political problem
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Could a Carbon Tax Emerge from the Debt Ceiling Crisis?
So, the Senate has just passed a plan that allows the government to raise the debt ceiling -- just in time to prevent the United States from careening into an unprecedented default scenario. Hooray! But it meant
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GOP has Voted 110 Times to Block Efforts to Protect the Environment Since January
For anyone still puzzling over why I view the Tea Party to be an egregiously destructive force when it comes to the environment, look no further than this evidence: In the seven months since the Tea
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You Can't be Both a Tea Partier and an Environmentalist. Sorry.
The line gets drawn somewhere, folks. Lately, I've been receiving a bunch of comments asking me to lay off the Tea Party. One quipped that "it's not like every person who believes in personal accountability and
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Democratic Leaders Excoriate Congressional Republicans, Say This is the "Most Anti-environment House in the History of Congress"
Many greens, including me, had big problems with Waxman-Markey, the failed cap and trade bill that would have finally priced carbon but also given a lifeline to the coal industry. Whatever your feelings for the bill,
