The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this Wednesday will vote on S. 761, the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, a bipartisan energy efficiency bill introduced in April by Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, and Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio. These senators put aside...

Since the debate surrounding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline started, some have tried to tell me -- incorrectly -- that the American people just aren't engaged in the fight against this dangerous project. But I always knew better. Over the last year alone, we saw tens of thousands of...

One of the best ways to celebrate Earth Day is to continue working to combat climate change and protect our planet for future generations. With 2012 being the hottest year on record in the continental United States and climate change fueling deadly and costly floods, droughts, wildfires, and Superstorm Sandy,...

The Senate is moving forward this week with consideration of President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency. This is an opportunity for the Senate to rise above partisanship and do what's right for families across the country -- confirm a proven problem-solver to head the...

Earlier this week, President Obama took bold leadership by designating five national monuments that together will protect hundreds of thousands of acres of America's natural and cultural heritage for the benefit of future generations while strengthening local economies today. With the stroke of a pen, the president has begun to...

Earlier this month in his State of the Union address, President Obama went before Congress and laid down an important marker -- act on climate or I will. The president has the ability to use his executive authority to make significant progress to fight the climate crisis, from...

During the ongoing debate surrounding the fiscal cliff, the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy was on the brink. Although the PTC has traditionally been supported by a wide bipartisan majority in Congress since being enacted by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, incentives for clean energy -- and...

Members of Congress have some tough choices to make during the fiscal cliff negotiations. But as they look for ways to bring in additional revenue, there's an easy decision that will save billions every year -- finally ending those taxpayer-funded handouts to the oil companies. It makes good fiscal and...

The 2012 election didn't end the way many people expected. Two years ago, it was assumed that environmental champions up and down the ballot would be wiped off the map by the unprecedented resources oil and coal-backed groups would pour into key races across the country. But when the ballots...

In both presidential debates, Mitt Romney has struggled to defend his Big Oil-soaked energy policies. He's resorted to making up his own facts and misleading voters on where he stands on clean energy and President Obama's record on wind and solar. In reality, Romney's positions are a slap in the...

Now that the fanfare of both party conventions has come to a close, the choice voters face in November is more clear than ever, especially when it comes to confronting the climate crisis.

During his speech at the Republican National Convention, one of Mitt Romney's biggest applause lines came when...

When the speakers at this year's Republican convention in Tampa stand up and attack the President's energy agenda and mock clean technology, it's important to know just who they're standing up for: Big Oil. Over the years, oil and gas interests have given more than $20 million to...

If overwhelming scientific consensus wasn't already enough to convince someone that climate change is real and requires immediate action, just look outside your window. All the heat waves, record-setting droughts, freak storms, and catastrophic wildfires we've seen all summer long reflect the trends that climate scientists have been predicting would...

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed historic new clean air standards to reduce industrial carbon pollution from power plants that will improve public health, promote innovation and create jobs. This is a historic step by the Obama administration towards cleaning up our air and cutting dangerous global warming...

Since the disastrous Citizens United decision two years ago, there has been an unprecedented flood of corporate special interest money into the political process, much of it from the oil industry and other polluters. While we cannot take directions from any candidate on our independent activities, we will respect the...

This week the League of Conservations Voters released the 2011 National Environmental Scorecard. The 2011 Scorecard reflects the most anti-environmental session of the U.S. House of Representatives in history, featuring unparalleled assaults on our nation's bedrock environmental and public health safeguards.

In 2011, the...

Even though the U.S. House has already taken over 100 anti-environment votes this year, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor proved in his recent memo to House Republicans that he's been busy this recess plotting a continuation of this pro-polluter agenda through the end of 2011. And...

As the results of the Iowa straw poll started to separate the potential presidential candidates from the hopeless ones, Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) announced his intentions to not only run for president, but to lead the pack of presidential hopefuls in extreme anti-environment rhetoric and vocal denial of settled climate...

This week the Iowa straw poll will begin to divide the pool of potential presidential candidates. Yet for those voters who care about climate action, the division has already begun.

While the words "climate" and "energy" seems to be on the lips of every presidential hopeful this election cycle, many...

This week, the House Republican leadership upped the ante on their already unprecedented assault on our nation's bedrock environmental laws. It is no exaggeration to call the Interior and Environment spending bill the single worst attack we have ever seen on our air, land, water and wildlife.

This spending bill...