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Inhofe finds a soul mate Paging a Mr. Lomborg	David Roberts	19 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Who's the object of James Inhofe's latest literary crush?Why, none other than our old friend Bjorn Lomborg!
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Inhofe seeks revenge on California A proposed bill would double fines on certain businesses in the state	David Roberts	08 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Yesterday I got a press release from the Sen. James Inhofe (R-Mongo) Senate Environment Committee Crap Factory© (SJISECCF) touting a new bill Inhofe is pushing that would amend the Clean Air Act 'to strengthen penalties on major emission sources in the most polluted areas of the country that fail to meet clean air standards by the attainment deadlines under the current Clean Air Act.' "Hm," I thought, "that actually sounds worthwhile." "Hm,&q ...
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The latest transmission from Mongo	David Roberts	22 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Yesterday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Mongo) reiterated his skepticism about climate change. He claimed that the purported concern over global warming is a front for international economic movements (I'm assuming of the socialist variety). Relatedly, Inhofe said that the U.N. is trying to impose a "global tax" and that the U.S. should cut off its funding. And then there's this: U.S. involvement in Iraq has been incredibly successful and developments there ha ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Dirty words	David Roberts	28 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Want a laugh on this Friday afternoon? Check out this interview between Pat Robertson and Sen. James Inhofe about "far-left environmentalists." A real meeting of the minds. I love the bits about environmentalists worshiping beasts and seeking World Government, but this from Inhofe actually made me giggle out loud: I recommend, except for the dirty words, a great book written by Michael Crichton. (via desmog)
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Inhofe chides EPA investigators for investigating	David Roberts	27 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Smog is bad in Denver in these dog days of summer -- not an unusual situation for the city. Recently, EPA investigators took a tour of oil and gas facilities northeast of Denver armed with infrared cameras, which can record smog-forming emissions that are invisible to the naked eye. Aiming the camera at pipelines, valves and hatches atop storage tanks, the EPA regulators found numerous sources of "fugitive emissions" -- those leaking from various a ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Why is Inhofe so virulent about global warming?	David Roberts	25 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Much has been made in recent weeks of Sen. James Inhofe's increasingly unhinged statements on global warming. He's hired a long-time movement hack, Marc Morano, to attack journalists and scientists that attempt to tell the truth about global warming (without falsehoods as "balance"). Now Inhofe's out calling Al Gore "full of crap," claiming the IPCC was based on "one scientist," and saying recent science has shown global warming to be a ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

A chat with Andy Revkin about Inhofe's attack	Kit Stolz	23 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Andrew Revkin has been reporting on climate and science for The New York Times for over 10 years. He recently completed a book about his experiences in the Arctic: The North Pole Was Here, a straightforward but appealing you-are-here account of visiting the top of our home planet, where the air is thin, the 'ground' is ice floating on the ocean, and everything is changing. The story is intended to be accessible to anyone over the age of ten. (The first chapter is ...
Topics: interview, James Inhofe (all these topics)

Chem Again? Chemical-safety bill moving oh-so-slowly through Congress	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Jul 2006	Muckraker
An attack on one of the many toxic chemical plants in the U.S. could endanger more than a million people. Environmentalists, security experts, and even the Army surgeon general have been raising the alarm about this threat since Sept. 11, 2001, but Congress has yet to do anything about it. Its latest efforts are being held up by none other than Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who never passes ...
Topics: James Inhofe, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Inhofe responds to AP with flurry of BS	David Roberts	27 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Look, I know that politicians aren't anything like they were portrayed on The West Wing (see Ezra Klein and Gene Healy on the matter). I know they're not all dignified and statesmanlike. But c'mon. Mere hours after the appearance of an Associated Press story about scientists verifying the accuracy of Al Gore's movie, the office of Sen. James Inhofe has cranked out a press release that reads like a parody of a frothing rightwing blogger (if that's even possible any mor ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

NAS hockey stick report	David Roberts	22 Jun 2006	Gristmill
So the big climate news today is the release of a report by the National Academy of Sciences (coverage from: AP; NYT; WaPo; MSNBC; NPR; Boston Globe). It's being spun every which way, but at its root it's (yet another) confirmation of basic global warming science. You've probably heard of the climate "hockey stick." It's a graph from a study led by Penn State's Michael Mann that shows global average temperatures sharply spiking in recent years. A couple o ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Inhofe coming around?	David Roberts	25 May 2006	Gristmill
From a press release out of Joe Lieberman's office: WASHINGTON -- Today, Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), congratulated EPW Committee Chairman, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), for taking a long-overdue, yet significant step toward tackling Global Warming by hosting a roundtable discussion entitled, "Exploring Greenhouse Gas Technologies." The Roundtable consisted of business leaders, ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

This Protest Brought to You by the Letter ... Yeah, by the Letter Thousands of biologists ask Senate not to gut Endangered Species Act		10 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
This Protest Brought to You by the Letter ... Yeah, by the Letter Thousands of biologists ask Senate not to gut Endangered Species Act As a Senate committee prepares to craft a bill revising the Endangered Species Act, 5,738 biologists from around the country have signed a letter begging senators not to neuter the act. The missive, organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists, states, "For species conservation to contin ...
Topics: James Inhofe, news, politics (all these topics)

Inhofe and Robertson	David Roberts	19 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Chris Mooney relates an amusing exchange between Pat Robertson and James Inhofe on the 700 Club a while back. I'll just add for the record that while I cannot speak for all environmentalists, I do not worship "the creeping things, the four-legged beasts, the birds and all that." Indeed, I have no god at all -- a possibility of which Robertson and Inhofe seem incapable of even conceiving.
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Refiner Madness Senate's stab at energy legislation may be more moderate than House bill	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Oct 2005	Muckraker
A refinery at Anacortes, Wash. "Shame, shame, shame, shame!" That's the furious chant that erupted from the Democratic section of the House of Representatives last Friday after Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) managed to eke out a victory for his Gasoline for America's Security (GAS) Act, which would loosen environmental laws and boost industry incentives to accele ...
Topics: Congress, energy, James Inhofe, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics (all these topics)

Next Up: Jerry Bruckheimer on Defense Policy Novelist Michael Crichton testifies before Senate on climate change		29 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Next Up: Jerry Bruckheimer on Defense Policy Novelist Michael Crichton testifies before Senate on climate change As part of his ongoing attempts to defy parody, Senate Environment Committee chair James Inhofe (R-Okla.) convened a hearing yesterday on climate science, featuring as an "expert" witness ... a novelist. Yup, it was Michael Crichton, whose latest thriller State of ...
Topics: climate, green living, Hillary Clinton, James Inhofe, news, politics (all these topics)

Inhofe: Gonna wash those rules right outta my hair Senator wants to waive EPA regulations in Katrina disaster area	Lisa Hymas	16 Sep 2005	Gristmill
James Inhofe -- Republican senator from Oklahoma, chair of the Senate Environment Committee, and tormentor of enviros -- yesterday introduced a bill that would let the EPA waive for 120 days any environmental regulations that could stand in the way of the Katrina response effort. Never mind that EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said environmental rules weren't hampering post-hurricane cleanup.
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Inhofe v. Mooney	David Roberts	25 May 2005	Gristmill
Chris Mooney has had a great deal of fun bashing Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) for his flat-earthism on climate change and his general antipathy toward environmental causes. Now Chris has experienced the great honor of having his work directly cited -- though his name was changed to "alarmist writer" -- by the senator on the Senate floor. (Unsurprisingly, Inhofe takes passages out of context, distorts the plain meaning of words, and o ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

We All Go Down Together FBI calls 'eco-terrorists' top domestic threat; Inhofe licks his chops		19 May 2005	Daily Grist
We All Go Down Together FBI calls "eco-terrorists" top domestic threat; Inhofe licks his chops The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convened a hearing on "eco-terrorism" yesterday, anxious to warn the nation of a rising danger that has already killed ... well, nobody. Despite the unimpressive body count, a growing number of property crimes make fring ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, James Inhofe, news, non-government organizations (all these topics)

Mooney on the skeptical follies Read Chris Mooney's two recent columns on climate-change skeptics.	David Roberts	19 Apr 2005	Gristmill
Chris Mooney is on a roll lately. I finally got around to his piece in the latest issue of Mother Jones, and it's an absolute must-read. Lots of people have the vague impression that there's a sort of climate-skeptic cottage industry out there, funded largely by a few large financial interests, particularly ExxonMobil. Well, they're right -- check out this chart. There's nothing wrong, of course, with industries trying to advance their vie ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Inhofe stands astride history's gates, crying, "Nothing to see here!" Oklahoma Senator kicks off series of speeches	David Roberts	11 Apr 2005	Gristmill
Chris Mooney, indefatigable chronicler of science politicization (say that five times fast!), draws our attention to the kick-off of Oklahoma Sen. and unrepentant flat-earther James Inhofe's promised series of speeches debunking mainstream climate science. It is, predictably enough, chockablock with misrepresentations, cherry-picked facts and phrases, and outright falsehoods. Head to Mooney's for the details, and if you have the stomach for it, ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Clear Skies takes a fat whack	Lisa Hymas	09 Mar 2005	Gristmill
Bush's Clear Skies Act is on life support after a vote today in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee failed to draw enough support to push the measure to the Senate floor. The committee had been deadlocked 9-9 on the bill for weeks, and James Inhofe (R-Okla.), committee chair, was unsuccessful in his arm-twisting attempts to sway at least one more senator to his side. (Barack Obama [D-Ill.] had been thought a potential swing vote, but he held his ground. Ph ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Hazy Delays of Winter Clear Skies bill still bottled up in Senate committee		04 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Hazy Delays of Winter Clear Skies bill still bottled up in Senate committee Help -- Clear Skies has fallen, and it can't get up! President Bush's "Clear Skies" legislation is stuck in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Committee Chair James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has delayed a vote on the bill three times, most recently yesterday, each time realizing that it's still deadlocked at ...
Topics: air pollution, James Inhofe, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Bully for Him Inhofe accused of intimidating Clear Skies naysayers		22 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Bully for Him Inhofe accused of intimidating Clear Skies naysayers Crossing Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is a risky prospect these days. A representative of two national pollution-control groups recently spoke out against the Bush administration's embattled Clear Skies bill in testimony before a subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee. (The 18-member committee, chaired by Inhofe, is currentl ...
Topics: air pollution, James Inhofe, news, politics (all these topics)

Inhofe tries to intimidate clean-air officials	Lisa Hymas	18 Feb 2005	Gristmill
John Paul, a regional air pollution officer from Dayton, Ohio, dared to argue in congressional testimony last month that the Clear Skies Act was 'simply not protective enough' and 'far too lenient' on polluters. For that sin, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chair of the Senate Environment Committee, is going to make Paul and his cohorts pay. Paul was testifying as a representative of the literally (and unfortunately) named Association of Local Air Pollution Control Offi ...
Topics: James Inhofe (all these topics)

Delay of Shame Senate committee delays vote on Clear Skies		17 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Delay of Shame Senate committee delays vote on Clear Skies In what clean-air advocates called a "major victory for the environment," the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday postponed a decision on Bush's Clear Skies Act. A vote had been scheduled to determine whether the bill would advance to the Senate floor, but with 18 committee members deadlocked on the legislation, Committee ...
Topics: air pollution, James Inhofe, news, politics (all these topics)

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