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  • Homeland Security Chairman Peter King ignores poison gas disaster threat to New York City

    Congressman Peter King (R-NY), the Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, faced protests from hundreds of New Yorkers and interfaith leaders this weekend over his plans to single out Muslim communities in upcoming Congressional hearings. While Rep. King seeks to look tough on terrorism by scapegoating people for their religious beliefs, last week he showed […]

    Philip Radford Politics

  • House GOP may actually be trying to poison us

    Photo: Lance RobotsonAll right, now we’re starting to get suspicious. The GOP isn’t just trying to decimate the EPA’s ability to protect our air and water from toxins — they’re also defunding poison control centers. What the … is this a Dorothy Sayers novel? Are the Republican reps fabricating a will and then bumping us […]

    Jess Zimmerman Politics

  • Dems kick up a fuss over GOP’s styrofoam obsession

    Action shot of the GOP’s plan for America, shot by a congressional staffer and originally published by Treehugger.House Republicans are congratulating themselves for defeating biodegradable cups in congressional cafeterias, surely the greatest challenge facing our country. But for once, Democrats are fighting back, if by “fighting back” you mean “saying words.” Former Speaker of the […]

    Jess Zimmerman Politics

  • Every problem on Earth in one graph [COMIC]

    Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal sums up why Tim DeChristopher is going to jail while the Kochs and other business magnates are still free to hump the environment like the sad little doggies they are, and also conveniently every other problem you might have been wondering about.

    Jess Zimmerman Politics

  • Wall Street Journal poll: Most popular spending cut is subsidies for new nuclear plants

    It is no big surprise that Americans don’t want cuts in Social Security, Medicare, or K-12 education. But the new WSJ/NBC poll does have some surprises: The survey found that the most popular potential spending cuts were subsidies to build new nuclear plants, with 57 percent support…. Of course, nuclear is absurdly over-subsidized (see “Nuclear […]

    Joseph Romm Energy

  • Before George Will was against high-speed rail, he was for it

    Flip flop much?Photo: lincolnbluesRemember how we told you the other day that Newsweek columnist George Will thinks high-speed rail is a sinister progressive plot to undermine American individualism? Well, big thanks to reader Ed D’Amato, who tipped us off to something very interesting from Mr. Will’s archives. Because apparently, that wasn’t always his opinion. In […]

    Sarah Goodyear Cities

  • Fred Upton’s bizarre war on 24 million Americans with asthma

    Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is teaming up with House Energy and Commerce Chair Fred Upton (R-Mich.) to introduce a bill to allow America’s biggest polluters to continue dumping unlimited amounts of carbon emissions into the air. It’s not that surprising that Inhofe is pushing this in the Senate. […]

    Peter Altman Energy

  • The continuing threat of the continuing resolution

    No riders, please.Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The House yesterday passed a bill to keep the government open for an additional two weeks on a bipartisan basis. The most striking feature of that bill was what it was missing — the Republican leadership dropped all of the anti-environmental exemptions from current law (and […]

    David Goldston Politics

  • All I need to know about Congress’ phony deficit reduction debate I learned from this comment

    House speaker John Boehner telling the press he plans to cut $100 billion in discretionary spending from the Federal budgetPhoto: Speaker John Boehner The spending bill wending its way through congress would gut the Environmental Protection Agency, and also cuts a whole bunch of other things you might be a fan of. (The efforts of […]

    Christopher Mims Politics

  • Why enviros should care about unions and collective bargaining

    Photo: Andrew ButittaIn the past few weeks, we’ve seen the fiercest attacks in recent history on collective bargaining. We’ve also seen the dramatic responses of people taking to the Wisconsin statehouse and the streets to stand together for their rights. Why are some environmentalists among them, and why should all environmentalists join the fight?    On […]

    Sudha Nandagopal Politics