James Inhofe

Something's Unnatural in the Air

Liza Donnelly | Posted 05.18.2012

Liza Donnelly

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Republicans Have Interesting Ideas About Climate Change

Posted 04.22.2012

Sunday is Earth Day, and some Republicans who aren't convinced of climate change may not be celebrating. Mitt Romney's views on the matter have evolve...

Top GOP Senator Unconcerned By Nugent's Comments

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 04.18.2012

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Wednesday that he didn't understand why some people appeared disturbed by rocker Ted Nugent's recent tirades against Pr...

Lucia Graves

The World's Most Famous Climatologist Is Invisible

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.31.2012

WASHINGTON -- It's a Friday afternoon and Michael Mann is at a downtown coffee shop. The climate scientist became famous in 2001 for his "hockey stick...

'Green News Report' - March 20, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.20.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

Climate, Science, and Religion

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.19.2012

Bill Chameides

I'm bothered by Senator James Inhofe's implication that we are free to do what we want, that it will all be taken care of by a higher being. Experience, history, and geology tell us the world can be a dangerous place.

Alec Baldwin Calls GOP Senator 'Oil Whore'

Posted 03.19.2012

Actor Alec Baldwin took to his Twitter page over the weekend to unload on Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), repeatedly referring to the notorious anti-EPA ...

Inhofe, EPA Head Share Unlikely Alliance

Posted 03.16.2012

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), a longtime foe of the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to cap carbon dioxide emissions, praised the agency's Adm...

WATCH: Maddow Confronts Republican Senator

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 03.16.2012

Rachel Maddow confronted Republican Senator James Inhofe about his ties to anti-gay legislators in Uganda during a tense conversation on her Thursday ...

Matt Sledge

Senate Passes Bipartisan Transportation Bill With Surprising Dig At Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.14.2012

The Senate passed a two-year, $109 billion bipartisan transportation bill in a 74-22 vote Wednesday, handing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signi...

'Green News Report' - March 13, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.13.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

Sen. Grothman Gets It For Painting Single Moms as Abusers

El Chanclaso | Posted 05.12.2012

El Chanclaso

State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), is receiving a well-deserved chanclaso for sponsoring legislation that paints single moms as child abusers.

Let's Grovel In An Old-Time Lent

Charles Redfern | Posted 04.25.2012

Charles Redfern

Christians must begin where they want skeptics to go. Lead us into full-throttled remorse. Fall on the floor like our forbears. Be the first to silently to spread your hands in the mother of all Lents -- and open your mouths only to howl.

Matt Sledge

House Transportation Committee Rolls Out A Poison Pill Transportation Bill, Sponsored By Drilling

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.31.2012

House Transportation Chair John Mica introduced Americans to the GOP vision for transportation on Tuesday -- more highways and more toll roads. To pay...

Ryan Grim

Nuclear Power Play Reveals Washington's 'Ugly Underbelly'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.30.2011

WASHINGTON -- A feud at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where five presidentially appointed commissioners oversee the safety of the nation's nuclea...

Matt Sledge

Barbara Boxer's Transportation Bill Would Drop Environmental Criteria In Much-Touted TIFIA Loan Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.20.2011

NEW YORK -- A bipartisan transportation bill sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer would dramatically expand a federal program that finances "innovative" tr...

Senator Talks Bestiality

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.13.2011

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce Monday that the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy did not "legalize be...

'Green News Report' - December 8, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.07.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

Report Critical of EPA Instead Raises Questions About Watchdog

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 11.29.2011

Shawn Lawrence Otto

The report doesn't question the science. Nor does it question the endangerment finding itself. It questions the procedure the EPA followed in its process of researching and preparing the finding. But the EPA says Inspector General Arthur A. Elkins, Jr. got it wrong.

Lucia Graves

EPA Pushes Back Against Report Alleging Agency Cut Corners On Climate Finding

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.28.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday pushed back against an inspector general report alleging the White House cut corners in...

EPA Inspector General Criticizes Greenhouse Gas Ruling Procedure

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 11.28.2011

Shawn Lawrence Otto

A new report by the Inspector General of the EPA questions the EPA's procedures in making a 2009 endangerment finding about excess greenhouse gas emissions.

Don't Fix the Blame, Fix the Problem

Adam Lowry | Posted 11.19.2011

Adam Lowry

The current political debate over whether climate change is caused by humans is worthless and moot, and it is distracting the American people from dealing with a problem that threatens our livelihood.

Can We Handle Nature's New Norm? (Part 1)

William S. Becker | Posted 10.31.2011

William S. Becker

The term "perfect storm" is overused now, but it is the perfect metaphor for the violent relationship between people and the environment today. We are experiencing a convergence of factors that are putting us at great risk.

GOP Senators Go After Controversial Regulator

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 10.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Four Republican senators are asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general to investigate the agency's chairman for ...

'Green News Report' - August 23, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.24.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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