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The proposal has already passed one key legislative committee.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who has been resolutely pro-gun and anti-coal, is moderating one of those positions.
When House Republicans sacrificed the farm bill to the fiscal cliff, they left farmers bereft of crucial reforms. So why does rural America keep voting for them?
To get out of paying $6 million in state taxes, Shell decided to try to tow a drilling rig from Alaska to Seattle in the middle of a storm.
A century-old law has turned the nation’s capital into a city of low-rises. It’s high time we broke through that glass ceiling.
It's just natural gravity at work this time, but soon the waters could be this high all the dang time.
When we attribute superhuman powers to the words of the resident of the White House, we take our eyes off the way political change really unfolds.
Solar power installations are up this year, making for enough capacity to power more than a million households. But Fox News is worried!
A new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- high-volume hydraulic fracturing.