This week on our Facebook page, you saw this bit of good news: that new polling finds huge bipartisan support for standards that increase fuel economy and reduce carbon pollution in America's cars and trucks.

These standards, which...

Republican pollster and strategist Frank Luntz was caught on a hidden camera recently, talking smack about one of the most influential and least constructive people in America: Rush Limbaugh. Luntz asked that recording devices be turned off before he began to talk honestly about the destructive political polarization...

Living in the Bay Area (the ATM for politicians in the US) and doing advocacy work means that I see a lot of Senators. The Senate was on recess last week so most of the progressive elected officials came out to take in a Giants game and fundraise for their...

The passing of another Earth Day seems to have some pundits waxing nostalgic. One such pundit, Nicholas Lemann of the New Yorker, wrote a glowing piece about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned out for the first Earth Day in 1970. He even went as far to say...

Senator Carl Levin has announced he will not seek reelection in 2014 and already the succession speculation has begun. Michigan has a deep field of leaders to draw from to run for Levin's seat. Yet whoever steps forward will have to chart their course carefully. Michigan is solidly purple, having...

Bullies. We've all dealt with them, either personally or with our kids. You know the type: They're overly aggressive, want everything their way and will try to beat you up on the playground if you don't do what they want. In politics today, those bullies have grown up, but they're...

Word spread this week that the Koch brothers were temporarily slowing their funding of the extremist Tea Party as they complete an audit of their failed 2012 electoral efforts. This shouldn't be viewed as surrender. Anyone willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to win the White...

Guessing the contents of the State of the Union is a favorite Washington parlor game this time of year. I am putting my money on the issue of climate change. After President Obama devoted a chunk of his Inaugural Address to laying out the moral and economic imperatives on why...

It is the start of a new year, and the long election of 2012 is behind us now, but that doesn't mean the campaigning is over. A new Congress and a second Obama term present opportunities to advance clean energy and climate action, yet given the persistent gridlock in Washington,...

Americans have returned a clean energy champion to the White House, but they didn't stop there. All the way down the ticket, voters overwhelmingly favored candidates who support clean energy, clean air, and strong public health safeguards.

This is victory for everyone who likes to breathe clean air and drink...

During their foreign policy debate Monday night, when President Barack Obama said Governor Mitt Romney is offering "wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map," Romney had no snappy comeback. No surprise there.

Romney has taken positions that ARE all over the map on a host of...

We glimpsed two starkly different visions of our energy future last night.

President Obama laid out a strategy to grow our domestic energy supplies, invest in efficiency and advance our use of wind, solar and other renewable sources of power.

Gov. Romney doubled down on his plan to bet our...

Mitt Romney lied to an audience in Iowa on Tuesday by spouting one of his favorite falsehoods: the Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate farm dust.

Romney has been repeating this particular lie since at least late 2011. He has been corrected again and again,...

The post-debate analysis is in full swing, and while pundits are talking about Governor Romney's aggressive manner and President Obama's subdued performance, the real story is how many times Romney strayed from the facts. On energy issues alone, he not only distorted the truth but he also misrepresented his own...

"And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet, because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our children's future." -- President Barack Obama on September 6, 2012

President...

Two powerful forces are headed to Tampa: the GOP Convention and Tropical Storm Isaac. Isaac may not make landfall, but the storm is likely to send gusty winds and heavy rains into the city.

It's hard to escape the irony of an intense storm hurtling toward the Republican Convention. Extreme...

Mitt Romney announced last week he would not extend an incentive for wind and solar power if he were elected president. Clean energy is often cast as a Democratic issue, but the incentive has broad Republican support. More than 80 percent of installed wind power comes from Republican-majority...

This morning, we awoke to news that Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will be Mitt Romney's running mate.

I am sure the Koch brothers are smiling this morning because they have been cultivating Congressman Ryan since he set foot on Capitol Hill, giving him one of his first...

It can't be easy being a climate denier this summer. Record-breaking heat waves, freak storms, enormous fires, and the worst drought in 50 years are making it harder to ignore the reality of climate change.

Many meteorologists, network news shows, and public health officials are speaking candidly about the...

Over the years, I've shared a lot of my joy, pain, frustration, humor and personal disposition on this blog. I've talked about my job, my family and my passion for protecting the environment and public health. The one common thread connecting everything I do is my kids.

Being a mother...