The GOP’s 21-page “Pledge to America” proposal, released today, is mostly silent on energy policy. In fact, the proposal summarizes Republicans’ energy policy in one sentence. The plan? Increase domestic energy production, and oppose cap-and-trade.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced today that he will not hold a floor vote on an energy and oil spill response bill this week, the latest delay in a months-long effort to pass legislation to address the massive disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and reform the way More…
One of the perks of political rock star-dom is that you get to write pretty much whatever you want and the nation’s leading newspapers will publish it. Take Sarah Palin: Judging from The Washington Post’s op-ed page, she’s now one of the country’s top experts on climate change. In July, More…
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who highlighted his support for cap-and-trade legislation to woo independent and environmentally-minded voters during the 2008 presidential campaign, affirmed again this week that he’s not willing to vote for a Democratic climate bill.
“I can’t use cap and trade as a way to increase revenue,” More…
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the chairman of the House Republican Conference, just announced that we are at war. In a post at RedState with the headline “A Declaration of War,” he wrote:
There is a war brewing between liberals on Capitol Hill and the hardworking citizens of the Midwest,
Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that President Obama’s emissions reduction scheme would cost American families more than $3,000 a year. “It’s just wrong,” Reilly told the St. Petersburg Times in reference to Boehner’s More…
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