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Earmarks Give Way to Oilmarks in GOP Spending Bill

 |  Feb 20, 2011

White House Remains Silent on Clean Air, Clean Water Attacks The new GOP majority in Congress promised to reduce the deficit, but failed to mention they would give polluters free reign to … Read more

An Excuse to do Nothing

 |  Feb 3, 2011

How did 300 tons of rusted metal halt federal legislation in its tracks?  That’s the question looming over the Deepwater Horizon’s blowout preventer (BOP), a “fail-safe” mechanism designed as the … Read more

Offshore Drilling Debate Heats Up,Global Warming Put on the Back Burner

 |  May 19, 2006

Chalk up a few victories yesterday in the U.S. House. Your representatives voted on a number of conservation-themed amendments as a part of the Department of Interior spending bill. One … Read more

Poor-k Excuse

 |  Aug 19, 2005

When you work “inside the beltway,” as I do, politicians and their staff members sometimes tell you things they wouldn’t dare say to their constituents or the media. Mainly I … Read more