The decision is in, and it’s not what we were hoping for. The Obama administration has announced it will stick with the Bush administration’s regulation weakening protections for the threatened … Read more
Miles Grant’s Archive
AEI: You Can Think Polar Bears are Cute. Or Threatened. But Not Both.
While we’re waiting on a decision from the Obama administration on protecting polar bears, I thought I’d pass along this little laugher from the American Enterprise Institute: The National Wildlife … Read more
Polar Bear Protection Decision Due
UPDATE 10:27am: Hearing we may get a decision this morning. I’ll keep you updated. A critical decision is expected any minute now from the Obama administration: A decision involving the … Read more
Rep. Pence’s Five Seconds of Silence
Five seconds doesn’t seem like a long time. Heck, it took me that long to type that sentence. But when you’re behind a microphone at a press conference, five seconds … Read more
NWF: GOP Leaders Resurrect Cheney Energy Plan
House Republicans are holding a mock climate hearing today in the Capitol Visitors Center. Here’s what Joe Mendelson, the National Wildlife Federation’s global warming policy director has to say about … Read more
Obama to Huddle with House Dems on Clean Energy Bill
President Obama is calling all 36 Democrats from the House Energy & Commerce Committee to a meeting at the White House today: A White House aide said Obama plans to … Read more
House GOP Holding “Mock” Climate Hearing
Mocking the climate crisis? Mocking the political process? A little of both, I guess. Reports Politico: While Democrats bicker over a sweeping climate change bill, Republicans are going rogue, crafting … Read more
NRDC Digs Into Newt’s Cement Story
When I live-blogged Newt Gingrich’s testimony before the House Energy & Commerce Commmittee last week, I left out a yarn Newt spun about a cement factory. The story was allegedly … Read more
Shadowy Group Launches Attack on Clean Energy
As the National Wildlife Federation predicted last month, big polluters and their allies have launched a major blitz against clean energy & climate legislation. And now CQ reports the latest … Read more
Clean Energy & Climate Impact of Specter’s Switch?
Just talked to Adam Kolton, the National Wildlife Federation’s senior director for Congressional & federal affairs: Read more
