Cantor’s Plan Won’t Create Jobs but Will Endanger Health
As we head into the fall political season, lawmakers and candidates of all stripes will be talking about the public’s primary concern – jobs. But just because some lawmakers will be using the word...
View ArticleTexas is burning. Governor Perry’s Hair Should Be On Fire. (Instead, It’s His...
At the Republican presidential debate last night, Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and “a monstrous lie to our kids.” Perry went on to tell a monstrous lie about climate...
View ArticleNewsflash: Voters Like Saving Lives
You wouldn’t guess it from watching the recent Republican presidential debates, but American voters support the EPA and its mission to save lives by reducing pollution. New polling, partially...
View ArticleOops: Rick Perry Forgets to Eliminate DOE
“Oops.” That’s how Rick Perry concluded his cringe-inducing remarks about eliminating three government agencies at last night’s GOP presidential debate in Michigan. The problem? Well, first, there’s...
View ArticleIs Ron Paul a Friend of the Environment?
In the aftermath of last night’s Iowa caucus, the media is likely to focus on the near tie for first place between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. However, it’s important that we not forget Texas...
View ArticleA Conservative Defense of Public Lands
Conservation wasn’t always a partisan issue. Many of the great conservationists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were Republicans — and, many of these, NRDC supporters. Today we hear so many...
View ArticleTea Partiers Are Destroying the Legacy of the Republican Party
A new book out this week presents an astounding fact that could help shape the upcoming elections: the Republican-led House voted nearly 200 times to undermine public health and environmental...
View ArticleLuntz is Right: Limbaugh Hurting GOP, America
Republican pollster and strategist Frank Luntz was caught on a hidden camera recently, talking smack about one of the most influential and least constructive people in America: Rush Limbaugh. Luntz...
View ArticleCan the Environment Save the Republican Party?
The Republican Party is primed for success in 2014. In addition to benefitting from redistricting wizardry, the party has history on its side: off-year elections give opposition parties the clear lead,...
View ArticleNew Latino Polling Provides Roadmap to Victory for 2014 Candidates
As we kick off a midterm-election year, candidates around the country are trying to figure out how to attract coveted Latino voters. A new survey released today offers a crystal clear answer. The issue...
View ArticleIgnoring Cancer
A new mantra in the politics of climate change is reemerging, and it’s not good. In the last few weeks, random elected officials began proclaiming “they aren’t qualified” enough to know if climate...
View ArticleCantor Can’t
Eric Cantor went down in a surprise defeat Tuesday night to a tea party unknown, David Brat, upsetting the Congressional order. It’s hard to think of someone more deserving of this fate, but not for...
View ArticleHobby Lobby, Climate Change, and the GOP’s Women Problem
More than 200 women brought their children to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to clean up the air pollution that causes climate change. The event was called a “Play-in for Climate...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 1: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
The Senate is (sadly) full of climate deniers, but none of them is more dangerous than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). That’s because Sen. McConnell possesses that dangerous combination...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 2: Congressman Tim Walberg
Congressman Tim Walberg seems perfectly happy as a reliable foe of clean air, clean water and taking action on climate change, doesn’t he? Maybe it’s because he’s tucked into the National Republican...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 3: Senator Marco Rubio
Senator Marco Rubio’s eyes are looking toward the White House. But instead, he should be reading up on basic science. Though 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is happening,...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 4: Congressman Cory Gardner
Why is Congressman Cory Gardner smiling? Maybe it’s because in just four years in Congress, he has raised $695,000 from dirty polluters from the oil and gas industry, who happen to be the largest...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 5: Congressman John M. Shimkus
Why is Congressman John Shimkus smiling? Maybe it’s because over the course of his career he has raised more than $500,000 from the oil and gas industry. These dirty polluters account for one of the...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 7: Congressman Leonard Lance
When it comes to environmental protections and addressing climate change, Congressman Leonard Lance is, in the words of Lewis Carroll, getting “curiouser and curiouser.” Lance once had a respectable...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 12: Rob Portman
Despite his easy smile, when it comes to energy and climate, Sen. Rob Portman is a conflicted man. On the one hand, he’s a cosponsor of a bipartisan Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill. It would...
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