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Boxer: ‘America Is Acting on Global Warming’

By | 12.14.09 | 1:20 pm

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…

Inhofe Launches ‘Climategate’ Investigation

By | 11.24.09 | 5:29 pm

The office of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, just issued a press release announcing the launch of an investigation into “Climategate,” the quasi-scandal involving the release of more than a thousand hacked emails that reveal agenda-driven behavior on the More…

Local GOP Censures Graham for Climate Cooperation, Other Bipartisanship

By | 11.11.09 | 5:09 pm

Anyone who pooh-poohed Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) politically courageous decision to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to help craft bipartisan climate legislation might reconsider his position after this news out of South Carolina:

The Charleston County Republican Party’s executive committee took the unusual step Monday night of censuring

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