It seems that every time President Obama gives a major speech — up to and including his announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan — pundits and observers call it his “best speech yet.” But that streak appears to have come to an end today as negative reviews of his More…
In an address to delegates at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen today, President Obama promised that America would “meet [its] responsibility” in the fight against global warming and urged other countries to put forward “decisive national actions.”
He acknowledged the difficulties the negotiators have faced thus far More…
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton breathed new life into the floundering climate talks in Copenhagen this morning with a surprise announcement that the United States would work to help raise $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing countries address the threat of climate change.
“Today I’d More…
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) made a quick stop in Copenhagen today to deliver the message to international climate negotiators that he’s been telling the American public for months: there’s “zero” chance that the Senate will pass comprehensive climate legislation.
Inhofe’s drive-by press conference — he spent just two hours More…
Two days after Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) reassured Copenhagen negotiators that the United States was taking action on climate change, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) — Boxer’s co-sponsor on the Senate’s comprehensive climate bill — echoed her message this morning in a speech at the international climate conference. Congressional Quarterly More…
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) will travel to Copenhagen this week to tell delegates at the international climate talks that the Senate will not pass legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. His aim is to sink a global climate deal by undermining the Obama administration’s pledge to cut the United More…
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today — and in doing so, he acknowledged the wars America is fighting and sought to justify his role in the Afghanistan conflict.
“Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the 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…
A lively exchange last night between environmentalist Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and leading climate change denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), culminating in Inhofe’s claim that recently leaked emails from climate scientists prove what he’s said all along: that global warming is a myth.
“Now we see that that science has More…
The Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-awaited endangerment finding today, formalizing its conclusion that greenhouse gases — and the resulting climate change — pose a threat to human health and empowering the agency to regulate the emissions of these gases.
“The Administrator finds that six greenhouse gases taken in More…
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