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How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) [UPDATED] 3
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Sen. Lisa Murkowski is open to voting for a cap-and-trade climate bill if it would aggressively boost nuclear power and domestic oil and gas drilling, she said in a C-SPAN interview. "Count me as one of those who will keep my mind open as we move forward," she said.
Lisa Murkowski’s bid to become a climate outlaw 0
Posted 2 months ago Why is Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) behaving like an outlaw?
We're going to hold your feet to the fire, are they getting hot yet?

Obama needs to take a stand on trade 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Candidate Obama said, in an Obama Administration, meetings would be conducted with transparency and the active involvement of citizens, labor, the private sector and non-governmental organizations. So why hasn't he scrapped the Security and Prosperity Partnership?
Why do you confuse 'making stuff up' with reporting the facts?

So long, Sarah! 22
Posted 4 months ago
The U.S. Postal Service screwed up and delivered a farewell card to us that was clearly intended for Sarah Palin, the now ex-governor of Alaska. We didn't realize the error before we had opened it, scanned it, and published it here for your reading pleasure.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Mark Begich (D-Alaska) 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
As a senator from a conservative state that draws much of its income from the oil and gas industry, Begich is not a sure vote for a climate bill.
Last of the 'dead enders'

Palin eschews facts and economics in blasting cap-and-trade bill 9
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
When the person John McCain once said knows more about energy policy than anyone else in America pens an op-ed for one of the nation's highest-regarded newspapers, it's time to pay attention and learn something. Uh, maybe not...
Reconsider, baby, reconsider

Palin says global warming harms Alaska, still wants to drill 1
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Palin said climate change is harming her state but increased natural gas production could lessen its effects. She wasn’t so much abandoning “drill, baby, drill” as she was offering a new rationale for it.
Roe is Me!

The Fishery That’s Too Big to Fail 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Lessons from the Exxon Valdez

Twenty years after the biggest oil spill in the U.S., we still have a lot to learn 0
Posted 8 months ago
Tuesday marks 20 years since the Exxon Valdez dumped nearly 11 million of gallons of crude oil into Alaskan waters, resulting in the most severe impacts on the environment of any spill anywhere. I was there and will attest to the graveness of the situation then, and now -- my memories of that day are graphic. I boarded the tanker a few hours after the spill began to enforce clean-up standards. The pungent, toxic smell of the oil is still fresh in my memory today ...
Ashley Judd and Defenders of Wildlife want you to know that Sarah Palin still hates wolves 10
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Alaska Dem. kicks off Congress with call for ANWR drilling 3
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
You haven’t heard the last of me, you meddling kids! 0
Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Holding Down the Beaufort

Shell Oil can’t drill in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, says appeals court 0
Posted 1 year ago
Even Stevens?

Sen. Ted Stevens officially loses reelection bid 5
Posted 1 year ago
Bristol Bay May Get Knocked Up

BLM opens land near Alaska’s Bristol Bay to development 0
Posted 1 year ago
Slope It Up

Lots of natural gas is chillin’ on Alaska’s North Slope, says USGS 3
Posted 1 year ago
Governating Alaska: not as fun when oil revenues are down 0
Posted 1 year ago
On the Road

Congress to vote on clearing way for road through remote wildlife refuge 1
Posted 1 year ago
Merkley triumphs in Oregon; three other races still undecided 0
Posted 1 year ago
Sarah Palin on spreading the oil wealth in Alaska 3
Posted 1 year ago