The petitions, rallies, e-mails and letters from around the country are sending a loud and clear message of broad support. The NRDC Action Fund has worked tirelessly to urge the Senate to stand up for a strong clean energy and climate bill. … [Read more...]
Not Again: The Fringe Right Takes Aim At Climate Change Before Seeing the Bill
Wow. Really? An entire destructive operation dubbed "American Energy Solutions Group" to take down a bill no one has seen? What kind of "solution" is that? On April 26, a bipartisan group of forward-leaning … [Read more...]
Sarah Palin’s Right: You Should Run on Energy
Palin's full of surprises, but this piece of campaign advice caught me off-guard. After all, a recent poll found that energy is the issue that inspires the most faith in Democratic lawmakers. Since President Obama made clean energy a … [Read more...]
5 Reasons the Climate Bill is Not Dead
As one experienced senator recently told an NRDC trustee: "I have never seen an important piece of legislation get passed that wasn't declared dead several times before." All the big bills flirt with death. Why? Because it is really, … [Read more...]
DC Hubbub and What it Means For the Climate Bill
So far, I am hearing the Republicans say "start over" and Democrats say "we can't wait" ad nauseum. I say, "Lock them in the room, get out a piece of paper and pencils, and start writing." But despite the discouraging aspects of this … [Read more...]