In Climate Progress - Posted 6 days ago

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) wants to pay for nuclear loan guarantees and clean energy incentives in exchange for one of our most precious natural treas...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 6 days ago

One of Congress's most notoriously hawkish duos, Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] and Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT], recently introduced legislation in respon...

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In Climate 411 - Environmental Defense - Posted 6 days ago

China's growing economic power is a growing concern for many Americans. Can the U.S. continue to compete with China in the global marketplace?In a n...

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In Environmental Economics - Posted 6 days ago

From the inbox:Moving quickly to put its mark on the Federal Reserve, the White House on Friday identified two economists and a lawyer as its choices ...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 6 days ago

This week seems like it was devoted to teeing up health care and next week is when the House will take a swing at it. Strained sports metaphors aside,...

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In Climate Progress - Posted 1 week ago

China finds itself awash in wind turbine factoriesChina's massive investment in wind turbines, fueled by its government's renewable energy goals, has ...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 1 week ago

As Democrats were wrapping up, or so they thought, the health care bills last winter, two hot button social issues threatened to derail everything: ab...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 1 week ago

Nobody know for sure what the Parliamentarian will rule, but Politico Pulse reports that sources are telling them something very different from what R...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 1 week ago

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said today that she is putting on hold her effort to block EPA's determination that carbon pollution is a danger to publ...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 1 week ago

Forty years ago this spring, we were a nation divided by war in Vietnam. The Chevrolet Monte Carlo got 11 miles to the gallon. Simon and Garfunkel wer...

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