Heather Taylor-Miesle

Recently Mitt Romney rolled out two new ads touting what he plans to do on his first day on the job if elected president. Both are filled with some lofty goals, to say the least, with the scariest part being that he may actually...

Long-time Senator Richard Lugar lost to Tea Party darling Richard Mourdock in Tuesday's Indiana Republican primary contest. In a legislative body like the Senate where compromise and bipartisanship have long been necessary, this is another blow for getting things done.

In recent years, the upper chamber has...

I can count on one hand the number of times I've been speechless. As a professional communicator, that's probably a good thing. However, when the following headline: "Heartland Institute Compares Belief in Global Warming to Mass Murder", reached my inbox last week, I sat staring at my computer...

The NRDC Action Fund just released a book called Reckless about the House Republican majority that cast more than 200 votes against environmental safeguards last year. We aren't the only ones dismayed by the rise in GOP extremism. Republican leaders are too.

This week, two esteemed conservative thinkers published a...

A new book out this week presents an astounding fact that could help shape the upcoming elections: the Republican-led House voted nearly 200 times to undermine public health and environmental safeguards in 2011.

This constitutes the largest attack on environmental protections in our nation's history. But the American...

Mitt Romney has once again reminded voters that he likes to fire people. On Sunday, he told Fox News he would fire three top Obama administration leaders because he says they "are on a mission to drive up the price of gasoline."

Romney called the leaders -- Energy...

Super Tuesday turned out to be Groundhog Day: Three candidates saw their shadows and winter could last for six more months. The presidential nomination process may be grinding on, but Congressional races are starting to heat up.

Candidates are zeroing on their messages, and at a time when jobs...

Another major poll has confirmed that American voters across the political spectrum welcome clean energy development. It also found that when given the facts, the majority of Democrats and independents oppose the Keystone XL pipeline for dirty tar sands oil.

The support for clean energy isn't news --...

President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to a clean energy future for America last night in his State of the Union Address. The Republican responses, on the other hand, underscored just how stuck in the past the leaders of the GOP remain.

From Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniel's official response to the...

Newt Gingrich trounced Mitt Romney in South Carolina, ensuring that the race for the GOP nomination will likely continue for weeks to come. The Republican establishment may have settled on Romney, but voters keep throwing their support behind the anti-Romney -- whichever candidate of the moment sounds as different from...

Today the American Petroleum Institute launched its latest attack on our great nation with their "Vote 4 Energy" or "I vote" campaign.

At the campaigns unveiling, API President Jack Gerard explained, "We are doing this because an electorate that is educated on energy issues will demand of all candidates,...

Former Governor Huntsman has once again said he accepts the reality of climate change. He told ABC's Christiane Amanpour on Sunday: "Let me make it crystal clear. I'm on the side of science in this debate."

He is now the only GOP candidate for the White House who...

Former Governor Jon Huntsman is suffering from a case of always-the-bridesmaid-never-the-bride syndrome. He has watched as nearly every other GOP presidential candidate has taken a spin with frontrunner Mitt Romney.

First Tea Party darlings Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry had their chance to dance around the floor. Then Herman Cain...

Another day, another flip-flop. At Sunday's Mike Huckabee-hosted presidential forum, Republican candidate Mitt Romney offered up yet another flip-flop, this time on reducing global warming pollution from cars and trucks. He said that he would "get the EPA out of its effort to manage carbon dioxide emissions from...

If you've been following the cable news cycle, you've seen the latest sensational headlines about the Republican presidential contest: Newt's surge, Romney's stagnant poll numbers, Cain's reassessment of his campaign. Amidst the news of the ups and downs of the horse race, you may be missing some of the most...

Politicians love to go for the easy applause line and lately, in Washington, that has meant decrying "job-killing regulations."

Republican candidates for president have all gone for this crowd-pleaser.

• Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has promised to "tear down the vast edifice of regulations the Obama...

This week's election offered something America desperately needs right now: hope. I know there weren't many marquee names on the ballot and I know the presidential primary season is getting more attention. But if you look closely at Tuesday's results, you see a few clear lessons that we should all...

Herman Cain is having a moment. Thanks to his economics-by-mnemonics plan and his unconventional, smoke-filled ads, Cain recently shot to the top tier of the GOP campaign. He became what Ryan Lizza called the fringe frontrunner.

But when you step to center stage, you realize just how glaring...

Last Friday, Former Governor Mitt Romney confirmed once again that his political convictions are as variable as the weather. His positions on health care and collective bargaining have been blowing in the wind for some time. Now his stance on climate change has melted away.

Speaking in Pittsburgh, he

Have you seen NRDC Action Fund Chairman's Bob Epstein's latest video on stopping the Keystone XL pipeline yet? We especially love the musical backdrop sung by American folk musician Laurie Lewis.

The lyrics, while catchy, really get to the heart of issue and spell out exactly why there's just no good reason for Keystone to build the pipeline beyond their own profitable motives.

"Valero Oil of Texas is not the oil for me, you want to pump the tar sands to your refinery but pumping gunk from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is a pipeline to disaster and to keystone we say no.

A pipeline to disaster and to keystone we say no!

Valero Oil of Texas you lobby for the pipe, you talk about employment but we know that's just hype. We'd rather create good jobs and a strong economy stop subsidizing oil and fund cleaner energy."

Don't forget to join us on November 6th in Washington when thousands of concerned citizens and activists like NRDC Founding Director John Adams led by Bill McKibben gather around the White House to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL...