Articles by Brad Johnson
Brad Johnson is the political director of Climate Hawks Vote.
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Earl Pomeroy (D-Global Warming Denial)
Cross-posted from Wonk Room. In a bald attempt to defend coal industry profits, Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) has joined a predominantly Republican push to overrule the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous pollutants. Earlier this month, Pomeroy introduced the Save Our Energy Jobs Act (H.R. 4396), which would rewrite the Clean […]
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Kentucky lawmakers demonstrate how to defend dirty coal subsidies
Cross-posted from Wonk Room. President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget would cut $2.28 billion in coal subsidies over the next decade. These $228 million-a-year cuts are dwarfed by the $545 million-a-year subsidies for carbon capture and sequestration technology, which Obama insists on calling “clean coal technology.” How are Kentucky lawmakers responding to this effective doubling of […]
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Pentagon: ‘Climate change, energy security, and economic stability are inextricably linked’
Cross-posted from The Wonk Room. For the first time, the Pentagon’s primary planning document addresses the threat of global warming, noting that it will accelerate instability and conflict around the globe. Former Senators John Warner (R-Va.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) added language requiring the department to consider the effects of climate change on its facilities, […]
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Ben Nelson’s logically incoherent stance on cap-and-trade
Cross-posted from The Wonk Room. There seems to be something about climate policy that encourages senators to take positions that are logically impossible. In the latest instance, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has now managed to simultaneously oppose and support a carbon command-and-control regime. Nelson is one of three Democrats to co-sponsor Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Ark.) […]
