Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate b...

Michael Kieschnick

President, CREDO Mobile

Some politicians and environmental organizations are using the Gulf Coast tragedy to push for passage of this flawed bill. To hear their arguments, you'd think the bill adds important safeguards and limits to offshore drilling.

Bill Chameides

Dean, Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment

Here's an early thumbnail sketch of some of who's getting what in the Kerry-Lieberman (and perhaps Graham) bill.

Erich Pica

President, Friends of the Earth

It's no wonder corporate polluters were lining up in support of this bill. The bill's loan guarantees for nuclear reactors and wasteful spending on coal carbon capture are all boons to polluting corporations.

Daphne Wysham

Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies

In introducing the "American Power Act" on May 12, 2010, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) seemed oblivious to the various public relations disasters the industries favored in their bill had suffered in recent weeks.

Ernest Istook

Talk Show Host, Distinguished Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

For everyday Americans, the new climate bill is nothing to cheer, as it amounts to nothing more than a giant new energy tax.

David Roberts

Staff Writer, Grist.org

Here's the one-sentence summary: chances for passage are quite slim, but not as slim as generally perceived, and ironically, the path to passage now involves the bill getting stronger, not weaker.

Donnie Fowler

Silicon Valley Veteran, Presidential Campaign Veteran

Even though the Golden State is among the greenest of them all, this will be a close election that could shut things down in DC and in about 49 other state capitols. So pay attention and get engaged.

Donnie Fowler

Silicon Valley Veteran, Presidential Campaign Veteran

On climate & energy policy this Spring, California and Washington, DC, are both running hot. The last two weeks in Congress have seen optimism, retr...

Chris Weigant

Political writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com

Since it's the Friday after month's-end, the new monthly unemployment numbers were released today. Which adds another bar to the "bikini bottom" char...

Sam Greenfield

Radio Host, Lecturer, Writer, Comedian

It is sad to see people treated as a joke when they are trying to be serious, but on the other hand, thanks for the laughs.

Shayana Kadidal

Senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights

In response to supposed legal restrictions on the interrogation of U.S. citizen and suspected Times Square SUV bomber Faisal Shahzad, Senator Lieberma...

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

Writer, consultant, teacher

The United States Constitution is the charter document of democracy in America. It is what makes us who we are, and we go outside the boundaries of that charter at our peril.

Mark Green

Host, 'Both Sides Now'

When spending $3 trillion dollars, invading two Muslim countries and imprisoning kidnapped innocents in black sites isn't enough, what can the Liebermans, McCains, Giulianis and Pete Kings say?

Daphne Eviatar

Senior Counsel, Law and Security Program, Human Rights First

The consequences of not reading rights to terrorist suspects that we later want to prosecute are now on display at the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And it's not looking good for the government.

Robert Scheer

Editor, Truthdig.com; Author, 'The Great American Stickup'

While some Republican politicians attempted to turn the Shahzad chase and investigation into an occasion for attacking civil liberties, it is clear that it moved forward in an extremely effective and expeditious manner.