Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a long-anticipated hearing on the Keystone XL Pipeline. This hearing aimed to explore whether the pipeline is in our national interest and included … Read more
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Senate Steps Up for Climate
The Senate started off 2014 with a lot of climate action. Last week, the Senate committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) held a hearing on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. At … Read more
Election – Bright Spots for Environment Despite Mixed Returns
The voters have spoken and 2011 will bring us a more conservative Congress where many winners ran on promises of rolling back federal spending, elements of the health care reform … Read more
Obama Goes to Copenhagen!
A day before Thanksgiving, President Obama gave us all a little something more to be thankful for by announcing that he will attend next week’s climate negotiations in Copenhagen. The … Read more
The Road to Copenhagen: Transforming the World’s Energy Economy With 21st Century Solutions
The piece below is my latest editorial from National Wildlife magazine Carbon dioxide pollution knows no political boundaries. Decarbonizing every economy around the world must be our common goal. In … Read more
Boxer Reaches Out to Republicans on Clean Energy Bill
New developments for the Senate clean energy & climate bill — Barbara Boxer is reaching out to Republicans. Read more
Boxer Pushes to Move Senate Climate Bill Forward
Denier in chief Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is threatening to try to block the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act, the historic clean energy & climate legislation before the … Read more
New Video: Why the Clean Energy Jobs Act Matters
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) released this video today on the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act: Read more
The Future is In Our Hands
Sometimes change happens in small shifts, sometimes in a bit of an earthquake. So there we were on the same day Senators Kerry and Boxer released the Clean Energy and … Read more
Key Senators to Unveil Clean Energy Bill
This morning in DC, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will detail their framework for comprehensive clean energy & climate legislation: The bill, which is still being … Read more