House Energy and Commerce Committee

Park Fire Sale

Edward Flattau | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Cliff Stearns, Green News, House Energy and Commerce Committee, National Parks, Green News

Congressional Republicans assure us they would never dispose of our major national parks, yet they have introduced bills that would make some national monuments and wildlife refuges eligible for energy exploitation, if not outright purchase.

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Top Ten Koch Facts

Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: David Koch, Cato Institute, Joseph Stalin, New Yorker, Koch Brothers, Keystone XL Pipeline, Charles Koch, Koch Industries, Native Americans, Climate Change, Cancer, Koch Brothers Exposed, Robert Greenwald, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Brave New Foundation, Alternet, Think Progress, Politics News

Everyone seems to be investigating Charles and David Koch lately, with exposés of their corrupt political behavior popping up in places like the New ...

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GOP Lawmaker Entertains Obama 'Birther' Notions

The Hill | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Birthers, Birther Movement, Barack Obama Birth Certificate, Obama Birth Certificate, Cliff Stearns, Cliff Stearns Birther, President Obama, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Barack Obama, Politics News

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), a top member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Tuesday said he's not yet convinced that President Obama’s ...

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House Democrats Seek To Subpoena Koch Industries Over Keystone XL

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Keystone Approval, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Video, Koch Brothers, Lee Terry, Keystone Permit, Keystone XL Pipeline, Ed Whitfield, Koch Industries, Henry Waxman, Solyndra, State Department, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats took the political offensive on Keystone Wednesday, seeking to probe connections between the multi-billion dollar projec...

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Solyndra Emails Reveal Questionable Finding

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Energy, White House, Energy Department, Steven Chu, Solyndra Scandal, Gop, Obama Administration, Solyndra Scandal Emails, Solyndra Scandal Emails Energy Department, Solyndra, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Republicans, Video, Green News

WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu won a Nobel Prize in physics, but his handling of a solar energy loan has some critics calling him clue...

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WATCH: Koch-Funded Climate Skeptic Warns Congress That Global Warming Is Real

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Ben Santer, Ed Markey, Richard Muller, Video, Climate Change Deniers, Koch Brothers, William Chameides, Climate-Change, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Climate Change Skeptics, Climategate, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Richard Muller, a prominent scientist long skeptical of the science behind climate change, declared at a congressional briefing on Monda...

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Farm Dust Fear Is 'Fairy Dust,' Democrats Charge

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Farm Dust, Farm Dust Rules, Ed Markey, Video, Rep. Henry Waxman, Kristi Noem, Kristi Noem Farm Dust, Epa, War on the Epa, Henry Waxman, Democrats, Epa Farm Dust Rules, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats mocked a GOP push to bar tougher regulation of "farm dust" Tuesday, saying the idea that the federal government even wants to ...

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Energy Dept. 'Not Poised To Approve' Second Solyndra Loan

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Solyndra Emails, Video, Valerie Jarrett, Doe, Department of Energy, Omb, Solyndra, Doe Loan Guarantee, Barack Obama, Solar Power, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Solyndra News, Second Solyndra Loan, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Energy considered granting Solyndra a second loan even as the company's dire financial situation became increasingly a...

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Solyndra Executives To Plead The Fifth At Hearing

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Brian Harrison, Fifth Amendment, Solyndra Investigation, W.G. Stover, Federal Subsidies, Obama Solyndra, Solyndra, Solar Power, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Two of Solyndra's top executives announced on Tuesday they will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to answer any questions a...

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Waxman Calls House Most Anti-Environment 'In History'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Policy, House Natural Resources Committee, National Resources Defense Council, Environment, Appropriations, 112th Congress, Henry Waxman, Newt Gingrich, Sierra Club, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- During the 112th Congress, the Republican House majority has taken aim at issues ranging from labor protections to women's right to choo...

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House Republicans See Rushed Review In Solyndra Emails

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Federal Loan Guarantees, Office of Management and Budget, Solar Panels, Obama Administration, Congressional Investigations, Department of Energy, Fred-Upton, Omb, Solyndra, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Wednesday charged top administration officials with rushing the review of more than $500 million in loan guarantees...

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Solyndra Files For Bankruptcy, Company Lobbyist 'Grateful' For Experience In Government Sales

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Video, Pete Stark, Cliff Stearns, Solar Panels, Victoria Sanville, 112th Congress, Obama Administration, Banks, Federal Subsidies, Solyndra, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Solar Power, Green News

WASHINGTON -- As Solyndra Inc. made its bankruptcy filing official on Tuesday afternoon, Victoria Sanville, a prominent lobbyist who helped secure hun...

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Sec. Clinton Has a Choice: Protect Americans or Profit the Kochs

Robert Greenwald | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, Koch Brothers Exposed, Koch Brothers, Big Oil, Keystone XL Pipeline, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Green News

There is a raging battle going on in this country over whether we use our resources to benefit the haves or to protect those who don't have as much as the most wealthy among us. It is now Hillary Clinton's turn to pick a side.

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Apple In Hot Water With Congress Over Location Tracking

Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Iphone, Iphone 4, Apple Iphone, Ios, Al Franken, Security, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Privacy, Technology News

(By Jasmin Melvin, Reuters) - Lawmakers extended their probe into location tracking on mobile devices this week, asking Apple Inc and other develo...

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Stopping the Republican Attack on Our Country's Clean Air Protections: Lessons from California

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Rep Mike Honda, Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Chairman Upton, Epa, Silicon Valley, Senator Barbara Boxer, Senator Diane Feinstein, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Republicans, House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition, h.r. 910, Environment California, Home News

In California's 15th District, we know that technological innovation and environmental stewardship go hand in hand to enhance our quality of life. Tha...

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Nuclear Naysayers and the National Interest

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: France, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Nuclear Energy, Dept of Energy, Reprocessing, Gregory-Jaczko, Russia, Rep. Edward Markey, Jimmy Carter, Sen. Harry Reid, Green, Business, Novaya Zemlya, Energy, Yucca Mountain Repository, Green News

Certainly the benefits and risks inherent in a nuclear energy program are enormous. But such a program is important for the nation's future when all is said and done, in spite of the current reaction to events in Japan.

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One Year Later: Health Care Reform a Law Worth Keeping

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Preexisting Condition, Health Care Reform, Rescission, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Copayment, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Mlr, Politics News

The heated rhetoric we've been exposed to since the health care reform debate began has obscured the harsh realities of a system that failed to meet the needs of millions of Americans. Last year's reform law is a start to fixing that.

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Mother's Truth Inadmissible at Republican Show Trial

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.25.2011

Instead of creating jobs and growing the economy, the Republicans are re-fighting the battles of a year ago and trying to take us back to the days when insurance companies had a stranglehold on our health care.

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How Many Committees Does it Take to Wage a War on Women?

Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Naral Pro-Choice America, Chris Smith, House of Representatives, Family Planning, Small Business, Tax Increase, H.R. 3, Naral, Joe Pitts, House Ways and Means Committee, Planned Parenthood, h.r.3, House Judiciary Committee, House Energy and Commerce Committee, House, H.R. 358, Lobby Day, War on Women, Stupak on Steroids, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, Grover Norquist, Abortion-Rape-Incest, Title X, Politics News

Recent and ongoing attacks on women's freedom and privacy by the anti-choice House leadership are so far-reaching and so extreme that they've been dubbed the "War on Women."

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GOP Denies Climate Change...Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Environmental Protection Agency, Fred Upton, Epa, Green, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Global Warming Deniers, House Energy and Commerce Committee, US News, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON -- In a vote split cleanly along party lines, the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday rejected measures reaffirmi...

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We Must Stop the Republican Attempt to Reduce Our Kids' Access to Health Care

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Health Care Reform, House of Representatives, Children's Health, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

Republicans are extending their fight to weaken the health care law to children in school. Yes, that's right, children in school.

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Who Wants to Cash in on Gutting the Clean Air Act?

Liz Butler | Posted 05.25.2011

All of us who care about stopping climate change pollution need to stand together and say no. No, you cannot buy our democracy; no, you cannot pollute our air; and no, you cannot overpower us with money.

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Cory Gardner Gets Top House Committee Assignment

The Coloradoan | Robert Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Energy and Commerce Committee, Bob Schaffer, Cory Gardner, Denver News

Rep.-elect Cory Gardner was given a seat Thursday on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the chamber's most influential - and most sought-...

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10 Need-to-Know Facts About Fred Upton

Gene Karpinski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fred Upton, Big Oil, Global Warming, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Pollution, Clean Air Act, Green News

Though in the past he's been an environmental advocate part of the time, Chairman Fred Upton's actions indicate that he puts polluter interests ahead of the public interest.

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The Coming GOP War On the Open Internet -- Not a Drinking Game

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julius Genachowski, House Judiciary Committee, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Net Neutrality, Federal Communications Commission, Technology News

In their never-ending quest to make the Internet safe for Verizon, AT&T and the newly minted Comcast-NBC colossus, GOP members of Congress are gearing up for yet another showdown to take out the Net Neutrality rules.

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