House Republicans Tweet For Keystone
House Republicans aren’t leaving it to lawmaking to get the Keystone XL pipeline built: They’re also turning to social media. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has started the Twitter feed @KXLFiles in recent days, according to committee spokeswoman Charlotte Baker. The first-person feed...
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More than 40 members of the American Coalition for Ethanol are participating in their fifth annual “DC Fly-In,” at which they will hear updates about the renewable-fuels program.
Ethanol Makers ‘Fly-In’ to Fight for Biofuel
Ethanol has accomplished the impossible, bringing together oil refiners, hunger activists, dairy farmers and environmentalists. There’s just one problem for the corn-based fuel: They all hate it. Together that motley crew of lobbyists is pushing Congress to rework legislation from...
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Different strains of marijuana are displayed during the grand opening of the Seattle location of the Northwest Cannabis Market, for sales of medical marijuana products, on Feb. 13, 2013.
Pot Advocates Lobby Congress for FDA Procedure
Marijuana’s political potency is growing in Washington. Americans for Safe Access held what it called the first-ever Washington conference on medical marijuana at the Mayflower Hotel from Feb. 22-25. About 300 people participated. Attendees gathered outside the Capitol early Monday morning,...
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Civil rights protester Julian Bond, left, and Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, second from left, gather with activists in front of the White House on Feb. 13, 2013, as prominent environmental leaders tied themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Sierra Club Director Among 48 Arrested at Keystone XL Protest
The Sierra Club abandoned 120 years of precedent and let its leaders defy police in a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline outside the White House today. In the group’s first sanctioned act of civil disobedience, Sierra Club Executive Director...
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Carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant.
Republican Preaches Heresy Backing a Carbon Tax
Former South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis blames his efforts to combat global warming for the intra-Republican challenge that cost him his South Carolina congressional seat in 2010. That hasn’t deterred him. Since the loss, he has traveled the nation making...
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This image, captured by NASA's MODIS satellite sensor, shows the Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf mid-disintegration, spewing a cloud of icebergs adrift in the Weddell Sea.
Climate Change Gone Missing — First in Quarter-Century of Debates
For the first time in almost a quarter century, global warming was missing from the presidential or vice-presidential debates this year, disappointing “climate-change people” who see it as an urgent threat to the U.S. and the world. Environmentalists aren’t pleased...
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The Pleasants Power Station operated by Allegheny Energy is one of several coal-fired power plants that operate along the Ohio River.
Rockefeller’s ‘Harsh’ Rhetoric on Coal Surprises Industry
West Virginia Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller took aim at one of his state’s biggest industries, criticizing coal-industry executives, who “pine for the past.” Rockefeller offered his criticisms in the run-up to a vote yesterday in the Senate on a resolution to scrap regulation...
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Secretary of Commerce John Bryson.
Obama’s Troubles at Commerce
Commerce hasn’t been kind to President Barack Obama. The federal department, that is. Getting someone to run the sprawling department responsible for everything from digital television conversion to the Census, fisheries management to foreign trade, has tripped up Obama since before he even took...
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