Tom Carper intends to hold Obama Administration officials accountable for the President’s embrace of pro-smog policies. Carper will hold a hearing of the Clean Air Subcommittee about the decision to abandon anti-ozone regulations, at which Obama White House officials will be forced to testify.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the American economy. Yet, most members of Congress are continuing to display the energy philosophy of the early 20th century – that oil is the answer to all of America’s needs.
Ed Markey accuses Senate Republicans of blocking the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling from effectively doing its work.
Ed Markey offers weak bills to deal with motes in the Gulf oil spill. He won’t support the No New Drilling Act. Why not?
Though it’s the first climate bill to enter Congress with a reasonable chance of passage, environmentalists are concerned that the bill has become so laden with measures pushed by industrial lobbyists that it may do more harm than good.
We’re not likely to get the kind of action our country needs on climate change until the “commerce” is taken out of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the “energy independence” interests in the select committee on global warming are shifted into a focus on sustainable energy.
It isn’t just Arctic coastlines that are environmentally vulnerable to oil spills. Why should the Alaskan coasts receive special treatments other shorelines do not receive?
Shell Oil has announced that it is canceling its solar and wind power projects, and going back to its 20th century energy plan – selling crude oil.
The FISA Amendments Act completely unravels the fourth amendment to the Constitution. It makes protection from unreasonable search and seizure a mere privilege for those that please the government, not an inalienable right.
You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]
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