Climate / Energy

Think Progress March 20, 2015 by Joe Romm Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is taking extraordinary measures to block the most modest efforts aimed at preventing catastrophic climate change. He has begun an “aggressive campaign to block” EPA’s carbon pollution standards “in statehouses and courtrooms across the country, arenas far beyond Mr. McConnell’s official […]

The Hill February 16, 2015 By Stuart Shapiro, contributor “It is an incontestable fact that the vast majority of smokers, including millions of heavy smokers, never develop symptoms or signs of chronic bronchitis and emphysema. … It is equally a fact established beyond doubt that the chronic respiratory diseases mentioned are commonly observed in patients

The New York Times By CORAL DAVENPORT and MARJORIE CONNELLY January 30, 2015 WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of the American public, including half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future. In a finding that

Tens of thousands of American jobs and oil independence for the U.S.  That’s what the proponents of building the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada to the gulf promise in exchange for the inevitable oil spills polluting waterways and aquifers to say nothing about accelerating climate change and sea level rise due to burning the exceptionally

This past week the U.S. Senate went on record saying that climate change was real and not a hoax.  Fifteen Republican Senators even voted “yes” on an amendment that said that human activity contributed to climate change.  The latter measure fell one vote shy of breaking a filibuster and passing.  We’re making progress. But while