Rick Perry

The fact is: Facts don’t matter to climate deniers

Yep, Rick Perry is wrong. But meteorologists are wasting their time trying to educate him.

The end of federal environmental justice as we know it

As the Trump team takes office, the movement will have to adapt.

Rick Perry’s Dakota Access Pipeline business entanglements

The Energy Department pick is on the board of the company behind the pipeline.

Rick Perry is on the payroll of a controversial oil pipeline company in Texas

Most presidential candidates step down from corporate boards to avoid conflicts of interest. Not the ex-Texas governor.

The GOP’s king corn problem

Republicans contort themselves in order to champion big-government ethanol support.

Rick Perry advocates solution to climate problem he doesn’t believe in

Of all the GOP candidates, Rick Perry has been perhaps the most fervently dismissive of the reality of human-caused climate change. So why does his energy plan include a provision for "clean coal" technology, which is used to capture carbon dioxide and pump it underground?

Rick Perry right about something

When a town hall attendee asked Rick Perry about groundwater pollution from hydrofracking, he sneered at the idea, saying that it would have had widespread press coverage if it were true: Perry: I am truly offended that the American public would be hoodwinked by stories that do not scientifically hold up. If that was true, […]

Critical List: Durban is over; Rick Perry is an idiot

The Durban round of COP talks ended over the weekend with a "platform" that outlines how work towards a new climate treaty will progress over the next few years. But that's really not good enough. Rick Perry thinks the company called Solyndra is a country called Solynda. That's in Africa, right? It's easier to find […]

Watch Rick Perry forget that the Department of Energy even exists

Energy. The word you're looking for is energy. Not a big priority, maybe?