In the early stages of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012, eight names are mentioned most frequently: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal and Dick Cheney.

Of these eight early contenders, five outright deny or question climate science,...

This guy is dangerously out of touch:

Super nervous, very creepy, super crazy. This was only two weeks ago. Here is the first 42 seconds:

Cap and trade started out just like...

The hits keep coming for the embattled United States Chamber of Commerce. On Saturday, I wrote about the Chamber's overwhelming hypocrisy on climate legislation:

While the Chamber claims it "continues to support Federal climate legislation," it is actually continuing its 17-year-old campaign against it. Representative Ed...

I've written several times in the past few weeks about the $1,761 energy tax lie Republicans have latched onto to oppose clean energy legislation. For those who haven't been following, here is how this went down:

STEP ONE: "News" generated by right-wing think tank.

STEP TWO: Right-wing print...

Originally posted at EnviroKnow.

Yesterday, Senators Kerry and Boxer introduced the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA). You can view a section-by-section summary and the full text of the legislation here.

Many bloggers have already weighed in with their initial reactions. What follows is a round-up...

A new Hatcher Group report reveals how nonprofits are using new media technologies to advance social change. Based on interviews and a 70-question online survey of 30 nonprofits working on state-level advocacy issues, "New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are...

Several members of the United States Senate have a serious credibility problem when it comes to climate change. Chief among them is Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), whose career highlight was saying on the Senate floor that global warming is the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

Spokesman for Senator Murkowski loses temper with blogger, admits that major GOP talking point on costs of climate legislation has nothing to with legislation that is actually being considered.

On September 16th, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski joined a growing chorus of Republican politicians touting a flawed analysis of the...

I mentioned last week that both CBS and Politico were forced to issue corrections on pieces they published citing inflated cost-estimates of a version of climate legislation that was never considered by Congress.

Despite immediate and forceful pushback from the Treasury Department, the Congressional Budget Office...

This week's Time Magazine cover story is dedicated to an in-depth profile of Glenn Beck. One could reasonably expect Time to do an accurate piece on Beck, documenting his endless lies and distortions, or perhaps even his history of anti-science rhetoric and blatant racism. Indeed, Time's...

Join us at StandWithVan.com to show your unwavering support for White House green jobs advisor Van Jones. You can also Digg this story here.

Update: The NAACP has just released a statement reiterating their continued support of Van Jones.

Update 2: Highlighting the absurdity of this witch...

After saying just last week that it wanted to initiate a 'Scopes Trial' on the science of climate change, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has quickly reversed course in a blog post on the National Journal Energy Experts blog:

My "Scopes monkey" analogy was inappropriate and...

Update: Bonner Talking Points Instructed Employees to Lie to Generate Letters to Congress.

Remember the lobbying firm that got busted forging anti climate bill letters to Congress on behalf of a coal industry front group a few weeks ago?

In response to a harshly worded query from...

A burst of developments Monday considerably raised the profile of the latest attempt by polluting industries to thwart environmental legislation. This story has been moving quickly, so here is a quick timeline of how things have unfolded over the past few days. If I missed anything major, please

Update: Jon Stewart covered this story last night on The Daily Show. I have embedded a short video clip at the end of the post.

Between the continuous coverage of Michael Jackson for weeks on end, Pat Buchanan's barrage of racist comments on MSNBC, and the death...

Later today the United States House of Representatives will vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act. All indications are that it will pass, though both the margin and the state of play on various amendments are still not entirely clear. Many Members of Congress have an extremely...

West Virginia loves coal. That became painfully obvious last week when the state's Democratic governor signed a resolution making the dirtiest rock on the planet the official state rock. As David Roberts rightly noted at the time, the coal economy hasn't been so good for West Virginia.

Originally posted at EnviroKnow.

The polluter pays principle is a fundamental assumption of smart environmental policy:

The Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) is an environmental policy principle which requires that the costs of pollution be borne by those who cause it. In its original emergence the Polluter...

Original: Major Compromise on Clean Energy and Green Jobs Bill

Roll Call is reporting that Representatives Waxman (D-CA) and Boucher (D-VA) have reached an agreement on several critical provisions of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The article also confirms roughly what was expected in terms of...

Original: Think Progress Catches Rep. Pence in Multiple Lies about Green Jobs Bill

First, the Wonk Room caught caught Rep. Mike Pence repeating his well-refuted energy policy lie on MSNBC's Morning Joe (@joenbc). Then, Brad Johnson greeted Rep. Pence with some pointed questions about the source...