Sen. Bernie Sanders has a new bill out to kill fossil fuel subsidies that come in the form of tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. Instead, Sanders would redirect those funds to generate 10 million solar roofs in America, which would create installation jobs and significantly reduce fossil fuel consumption. “We’ve got to [...]

The Keystone XL pipeline will now either receive or be denied its construction permit by February 21, according to the schedule worked out in the two-month stopgap deal to extend the payroll tax, unemployment insurance and the doctor’s fix. The State Department has said repeatedly that they would not be able to properly review Keystone [...]

I suppose I should address the outcome of the Durban climate conference, but I don’t really know what to say. The countries assembled made an agreement to make an agreement. Seeing that they couldn’t make the agreement while all of them gathered in Durban, I don’t know why anyone believes they will make an agreement [...]

Not many people are paying attention to the climate conference in Durban, South Africa, probably out of despair that anything will improve in terms of a global climate pact. And the major reason for that is that the leading emitters simply aren’t taking their role seriously. The conversation now in Durban has centered on delaying [...]

Greenhouse gas emissions for 2009 actually collapsed, as the world was in the midst of a global recession. Recessions tend to depress economic productivity – by their very definition – and reduce demand for electricity generation (a primary source of carbon emissions in the US and China).   That results in less greenhouse gas emissions, [...]

The other day, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tried to offload the decision on whether to go forward with the Keystone XL pipeline on the State Department. But President Obama himself was asked about the pipeline in a local news interview last night, and he took full responsibility for making the decision. In doing [...]

Remember, only trying to mitigate climate change costs jobs. Keep telling yourself that. Parts shortages from three months of catastrophic flooding in Thailand have forced Honda to cut U.S. and Canadian factory production by 50 percent for the second time this year, the automaker said Monday. The cuts, which come just as Honda was recovering [...]

California’s Air Resources Board has formally approved a cap and trade system to minimize climate change pollution, becoming the first state in the nation with a cap and trade program. Legislation authorizing a cap and trade system was passed in California back in 2006, but after multiple reviews, the CARB finally approved the program. The [...]

Dave Roberts things that progressives are failing on Solyndra: Watching this unfold over the last week, I keep thinking back to “Climategate.” When it first broke back in late 2009, lefties and bloggers and Dem lawmakers just ignored it, because it was obviously dumb. This left the field entirely open to a massive attack from [...]

The White House sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner late last night, asking for a total of $5.1 billion in disaster relief funding to deal with the multitude of hurricanes, flooding and wildfires that have rocked the United States this summer. Here is the text of the letter: I ask the Congress to consider [...]

The Obama Administration environmental agenda has underwhlemed progressive supporters over the past week, to say the least. The rollback of ozone regulations will keep the country on a 1997 standard, worse than what the Bush Administration proposed in the waning days of his second term, and will lead to more asthma cases, more public health [...]