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Republicans for Enviromental Protection push back for Graham 0
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Since he voted for Waxman-Markey, will RNC Chair Steele denounce him, too — or will he run away from his vote?

Mike Castle (R-DE) to run for Biden’s seat 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A big breakthrough on green jobs 8
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The New York State Senate and Assembly, too often a model of corruption and dysfunctionality, rose above petty politics last week to pass forward-thinking legislation on climate and energy, setting a precedent for bipartisanship and a sensible cap and trade system.
Surprising?

GOP opposes successful “Cash for Clunkers” 2
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
“Cash for Clunkers” proves better for saving oil and CO2 — and for the economy — than predicted. So of course Senate GOP opposes it
A true American hero: Tom Perriello (D-VA)

“Republicans can’t regain their souls for demagoguing the issue” 0
Posted 4 months ago
"There’s got to be something more important than getting reelected," Tom Perriello said in an interview with Politico. “If I lose my seat, and that’s the worst that happens, I could live with that.”
ALTERNATE REALITY

Senate GOP: Nuke, baby, nuke! 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Republicans in the Senate claim to have an “alternative" to the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act. (OK, so it was just Sen. Lamar Alexander, but we’ll accept his claim that he has some so-far-anonymous colleagues behind him). But on closer inspection, chances that their plans would affect clean energy or energy security seem dim.
The right, wronged

Conservative activists wage war on Republicans who voted for climate bill 14
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Republican House members who provided the margin of victory in last week's narrow passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act are taking heat from the right for their votes.
Lowlights from the House climate debate 3
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Warning: falling metaphors ahead

It’s no time for change, says ad from Gingrich’s group 3
Posted 5 months ago
The people who brought you the “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” energy plan have launched a new TV ad opposing the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, or, as the new 30-second spot calls it, the “national energy tax.”
"I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous."

Newt Gingrich: “I am not a citizen of the world.” 3
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Newt Gingrich sums up the narrow-minded and ultimately self-destructive "every-country-for-themselves" mentality of the modern conservative movement.
The little engine that probably couldn't

Will health care eclipse climate in Congress this year? 9
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Halfway through the second debate of last fall's presidential campaign, moderator Tom Brokaw asked the candidates what their top priority would be if elected. McCain hemmed and hawed, but Obama answered in plain language: energy is "priority No. 1" and health care "priority No. 2." Fast forward. In an NYT Magazine piece this weekend on the legislative strategy driving Obama's presidency, Sen. Max Baucus recalls a flight on Air Force One in which Obama "just turned to me and said, 'This is my No. 1 issue.'" That issue? Health care.

What a difference a little time in office makes.
Incurious George

Former Republican Sen. George ‘Macaca’ Allen shills for dirty energy 7
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Hey, remember George Allen, the former Republican senator from Virginia best known for using the racist slur "macaca" on camera during his failed bid for reelection in 2006? Apparently, he's making his comeback as the Republican anti-climate bill poster boy, flacking for on behalf of the coal and oil lobbies.
Weakening amendments fail as American Clean Energy and Security Act moves through markup 0
Posted 6 months ago
The second day of markup on the Waxman/Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act saw a series of amendments from opponents designed to weaken the green economy bill fail in a series of votes.
Highly carbonated

The week in fruitloopery: jaw-dropping things Republicans are saying about climate and energy 4
Posted 6 months ago
I hope everyone's following the Waxman-Markey hearings via C-SPAN and Twitter, specifically @kate_sheppard @climatebill and @MarkeyMemo. If you're not, you're missing some vintage fruitloopery. Here are a few videos rounded up from the last few days.
“call out those Republicans who continue to spread the false claim that capping greenhouse gas pollution will — supposedly — cost American families $3,100 every year.”

Republicans [sic] for Environmental Protection 0
Posted 6 months ago
The president of Republicans for Environmental Protection has a column in Politico, “Time for the GOP to become green,” in which he rebukes congressional Republicans who are shamelessly abusing an MIT study of generic climate bills.
The incredible shrinking tent

Republican counter-strategy on climate: Revenge! 2
Posted 6 months ago
How much smaller can the climate denial tent get? We’re about to find out.
From the truth is stranger than fiction dept.

GOP: defending little guys from corporations since a couple days ago 1
Posted 6 months ago
Just when you think you've gotten cynical enough, the GOP goes and tries to rebrand its energy policy as economic populism.
Ad-ing to the chorus

‘Jobs of the Future’ ad pressures GOP to support climate bill 0
Posted 6 months ago
The progressive group Americans United for Change unveiled a new TV ad today that seeks to put pressure on Republicans to support President Obama’s energy plan.
Opponents continue to obstruct clean energy jobs push in Energy & Commerce Committee debate 0
Posted 6 months ago
Contempt of Congress 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
House GOP reveals its disdain for clean energy, livable climate with 450 planned amendments to Waxman-Markey and a more-of-the-same rehash of Cheney energy plan.