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Update: The NAACP has just released a statement reiterating their continued support of Van Jones.

Update 2: Highlighting the absurdity of this witch...

After saying just last week that it wanted to initiate a 'Scopes Trial' on the science of climate change, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has quickly reversed course in a blog post on the National Journal Energy Experts blog:

My "Scopes monkey" analogy was inappropriate and...

Update: Bonner Talking Points Instructed Employees to Lie to Generate Letters to Congress.

Remember the lobbying firm that got busted forging anti climate bill letters to Congress on behalf of a coal industry front group a few weeks ago?

In response to a harshly worded query from...

A burst of developments Monday considerably raised the profile of the latest attempt by polluting industries to thwart environmental legislation. This story has been moving quickly, so here is a quick timeline of how things have unfolded over the past few days. If I missed anything major, please

Update: Jon Stewart covered this story last night on The Daily Show. I have embedded a short video clip at the end of the post.

Between the continuous coverage of Michael Jackson for weeks on end, Pat Buchanan's barrage of racist comments on MSNBC, and the death...

Later today the United States House of Representatives will vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act. All indications are that it will pass, though both the margin and the state of play on various amendments are still not entirely clear. Many Members of Congress have an extremely...

West Virginia loves coal. That became painfully obvious last week when the state's Democratic governor signed a resolution making the dirtiest rock on the planet the official state rock. As David Roberts rightly noted at the time, the coal economy hasn't been so good for West Virginia.

Originally posted at EnviroKnow.

The polluter pays principle is a fundamental assumption of smart environmental policy:

The Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) is an environmental policy principle which requires that the costs of pollution be borne by those who cause it. In its original emergence the Polluter...

Original: Major Compromise on Clean Energy and Green Jobs Bill

Roll Call is reporting that Representatives Waxman (D-CA) and Boucher (D-VA) have reached an agreement on several critical provisions of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The article also confirms roughly what was expected in terms of...

Original: Think Progress Catches Rep. Pence in Multiple Lies about Green Jobs Bill

First, the Wonk Room caught caught Rep. Mike Pence repeating his well-refuted energy policy lie on MSNBC's Morning Joe (@joenbc). Then, Brad Johnson greeted Rep. Pence with some pointed questions about the source...

Original: Dirty Energy and Dirty Money are Poisoning American Politics

We have a problem in Washington. Polluting industries with massive lobbying arms fund the political campaigns of pretty much every Senator whose state is rich in coal. President Obama even had the audacity to list

Originally at EnviroKnow: The Politics of a Potential Pandemic: From Sebelius to Smithfield

Several political dynamics are running immediately beneath the surface of news coverage of the swine flu outbreak. First and foremost, the confirmation of Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services Secretary is being held up by...

Update: RFK Jr Confirms: ABC Headline was Purposefully Provovative and Inaccurate.

Original: EnviroKnow: ABC News Intentionally Misleading Viewers with RFK-Obama Clean Coal Story

ABC News ran a story Tuesday evening that immediately raised some eyebrows in environmental circles. The headline: RFK Jr. Blasts Obama as 'Indentured...

Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey Tuesday at long last made public a discussion draft of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). Some are calling this the opening shot in the battle over what the United States will do about global warming. Rep. Markey, not one...

Watchdog: "The goals of his new employer are going to be largely to undercut the goals of his former employer"

Via Tuesday morning's Congress Daily (subscription req'd) we learn of bad news:

Brian Wolff, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has a gig starting April 15 with the Edison...

You hear a lot of talk these days about the necessity of bipartisanship. But Democrats and Republicans in Congress can't seem to agree on the meaning of the word. For Democrats, it apparently means compromising on everything and watering legislation down until a few Republicans are willing to vote...

Just as House Republicans did, GOP Senators are now pretending they'll vote for the economic recovery package if only those unreasonable Democrats would toss them a bone or two. For the most part, they are lying. They will kick and scream for every concession possible, creating a new faux...

I have good news and bad news. First, the good news. President Obama has ordered the EPA to revisit the denial of the California waiver. Basically, this means that states will now be allowed to set their own standards for automobile tailpipe emissions. States like California and New York,...

Around the end of December, the American Consumer Institute, which appears to be a fly-by-night anti-regulation group, posted a poll about The Pickens Plan on their website.

The official Pickens Plan account at the Ning Social Network page immediately posted a link to the poll, practically begging the...

Originally posted at The Seminal.

Natural gas does not get nearly as much attention as oil or coal. But the role this resource plays in our lives has been steadily increasing for decades. We must begin to address natural gas now, or we will leave future generations with a...