Senate Democrats are planning to abandon climate change legislation in favor of focusing on a smaller energy-only bill.  more

The tea party activists rallying in Washington today may not know it, but they’re Pelosi and Obama’s greatest assets. Their search-and-destroy mission against moderate and center-right Republicans provides the cover fire the left needs to advance their agenda.  more

Industries ought to pay for disposing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and why the revenues ought to come back to you and me. It doesn’t matter whether the payments come from auctioning emissions allowances or levying a carbon tax.  more

Both liberals and conservatives have a case of cognitive dissonance when it comes to their favorite energy technologies.
Liberals demand energy resources that are easy on the environment. They get nervous, however, when concerns are raised about renewable energy projects’ environmental impacts.
Conservatives demand that energy choices be left to the market. They are remarkably quiet, however,   more

Lefty politicians and left-leaning enviros have a natural inclination towards top-down bureaucratic solutions when it comes to solving environmental problems.
Sometimes, there is no practical alternative, but more often than not, it means throwing a lot of taxpayer dollars at a problem with little real progress to show for it. This is particularly true when   more

Fighting for lower taxes has always been a bread and butter issue for Republicans — and a good thing given the Democrats’ propensity toward raising them and “spreading the wealth.” However, Republican tax rhetoric veered in a perilous new direction recently when party leaders began attacking efforts to address climate change as an “energy tax”   more

For the party in power, it is always tempting to believe that the end justifies the means. So it is not surprising that the Democrats have quickly forgotten good government arguments that they made when they were in the minority.
Four years ago, congressional Republicans tried to pry open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil   more