It’s Jim Inhofe’s job, as a member of Congress, to provide that funding, not just to throw his hands up in the air and declare that Americans are going to have to drink dirty water just because he can’t be bothered to allocate the proper funds.

Now that even James Inhofe admits that global warming is a real threat, Congress needs to pass legislation quickly to confront the danger.

This week, Barbara Boxer will lead the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to consider 4 very, very important environmental bills: One bill to rename a courthouse, and three bills to rename federal office buildings.

Each particular federal project might have a very small impact on climate, but when considered collectively, the likely impact of the government’s project is quite significant. Knowing where the greatest opportunity for reduction of climate impact lies could result in huge financial savings for the government, and for our society as a whole.

Which members of Congress and congressional candidates have accepted money from Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy, the coal company whose increasingly unsafe record of mining operations culminated in this week’s Upper Big Branch coal mine methane explosion.

In spite of Senator Inhofe’s observation that there was snow in Washington D.C. this winter, it turns out that this winter was the second warmest on record.

39 members of the United States Senate chose to stand with Lisa Murkowski, in opposition to responsible efforts to slow climate change. These senators, chose to align themselves with the short-term corporate profits on the very day when NASA’s Goddard Institute reported that the last decade has been the warmest on record.

The same inconsistency is there when it comes to the relative power between federal and local governments. Right wing activists say that local governments should have power above the federal government’s power, when local governments want to deny people rights. When local governments seek to protect constitutional rights, however, the same right wing activists show no respect for local decisions.

It is in this spirit that yesterday, the following 39 Republican members of Congress signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

Is it possible that Senator Inhofe is seeking to enable a stockpiling of artificial flowers here in the United States, just in case global climate change makes it impossible for us to grow our own?

In*tol*er*ant. adj. not tolerating or respecting beliefs, opinions, usages, manners, etc., different from one’s own, as in political or religious matters; bigoted (Random House Dictionary) Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma has announced his intention to filibuster the confirmation of David Hamilton to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Why? On November 30, 2005, as [...]