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 [...]

It appears that the inland waterways, particularly in Vermont, bore the worst hardship from Hurricane Irene, with flooding of areas that were probably less equipped to deal with such things than coastal regions. The amount of rain tacked on to an already wet August was too much for many tributaries to bear. The damage is [...]

The hurricane which became tropical storm Irene ended up doing more damage with its precipitation than it did with its winds. In parts of the East Coast, August was already the rainiest month on record prior to the storm. So the waterways were swelled and more prone to flooding. Apparently Vermont got some of the [...]

Kevin Drum has a very important piece that shows us the predicament of the oil-fueled society we’ve constructed over the past several years. The story is basically this. Oil production is static, if not falling, and emerging markets are increasing and broadening their wealth, leading more and more Chinese and Indians and Indonesians and Brazilians [...]

The next couple months will be consumed with discussion about the Catfood Commission II, and their efforts to reach a $1.5 trillion or higher deficit package. This will frustrate any attempt to pivot to jobs. But as long as that’s known, activists and organizations can point out best practices on that committee while trying to [...]

The two-day detention of many of the protesters in front of the White House opposing a proposed tar sands pipeline from Canada to Texas has not so far inhibited other activists. Over the first two days, 110 activists have been arrested for sit-ins at the tar sands protests, including FDL colleagues Jane Hamsher and Scarecrow. [...]

I always try to reserve space for at least one silver lining story. That’s been getting more and more difficult of late. Here’s what I could come up with today: carmakers and the White House have reached a deal on new fuel economy standards. The Obama administration is preparing to require that automakers’ vehicle fleets [...]