The year 2009 has been monumental for climate news. Featuring breakthroughs and setbacks, scandals and spin, 2009 saw the first-ever passage of a comprehensive climate bill by a house of Congress. But the country ultimately ended the year the same way it began on climate change: mired in uncertainty. 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…
[GOP1]Over two days of hearings with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of CentCom, Republican members of Congress settled on a common line of questioning. Did the general have everything he needed to win? Did he have everything More…
At a luncheon at the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said that the Tea Party movement could help Republicans from moving too far to the left.
“I’m real supportive of the idea that the Tea Party movement could join in with the Republican Party and keep it clean,” More…
At the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) claimed that there were only 25 “aye” votes in the Senate for the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill. The “Climategate” scandal, over e-mails obtained from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit that skeptics claim to show scientists forging global warming More…
At a Heritage Foundation luncheon today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) went off on a bit of a tangent and told conservative bloggers to check out a five-minute segment about him on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
“I’ve grown to like that gal,” said Inhofe. “She thinks she’s saying such hateful 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…
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…
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