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Bicameral Task Force Tackles Climate Change

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics
Read More: Superstorm Sandy, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, John Shimkus, Global Warming, Task-Force-on-Climate-Change, Subcomittee on Environment and the Economy, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

The American public needs to proactively support the efforts of Waxman and Whitehouse, and the Task Force on Climate Change, by demanding that their elected representatives generate ideas, share proposals, and coordinate efforts on climate change. Options are quickly running out.

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Ex-Illinois Congressional Aide Briefly Arrested In Lohan Dispute

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 10.01.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Christian LaBella Arrest, Video, Christian Labella John Shimkus, Lindsay Lohan, Christian LaBella, Christian LaBella Arrested, Christian LaBella Lindsay Lohan, John Shimkus, Lindsay Lohan Dispute, Christian Labella Congress, Chicago News

NEW YORK -- A 25-year-old man initially arrested Sunday on an assault charge after Lindsay Lohan claimed he grabbed her in her New York hotel room in ...

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Party Hack Behind IL GOP Money Transfer Scheme Gets Nod for Congress

Doug Ibendahl | Posted 07.22.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Illinois Republican Party, Tim Johnson, Erika Harold, John Shimkus, Rodney Davis, Pat Brady, Illinois GOP, Illinois Republicans, Chicago News
Doug Ibendahl

Rodney Davis was chosen Saturday to replace retiring Congressman Tim Johnson on the ballot this November.

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Will the Illinois GOP Confirm There's a War on Women?

Doug Ibendahl | Posted 07.09.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Illinois Republican Party, Illinois Republicans, Rodney Davis, Kathy Wassink Illinois, Erika Harold, Erika-Harold-Illinois, Kathy Wassink, John Shimkus, Illinois 13 Congressional District, Tim Johnson, Chicago News
Doug Ibendahl

If the County Chairmen ignore the pressure they are surely getting from the usual suspects and failed establishment players, the Illinois GOP may soon have a great story to tell for a change.

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Two for Tuesday: The Latest on Common Pesticide and Coal Ash

Bill Chameides | Posted 06.10.2012 | Green
Read More: Kingston Fossil Power Plant, Fred Upton, Environmental Advocacy, Coal-Fired Power Plant, 2, Public Health, Regulation, Pollution, Policy, Chemicals, 4-D, John Shimkus, Barack Obama, Politics, Natural Resources Defense Council, U.S. Congress, Health, John Adams, Coal Ash, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News
Bill Chameides

A product used not just by farmers but also by lots of us common variety home gardeners and lawn groomers has been linked to a variety of unsavory health effects from cancer (in people) to hormonal disruptions (in animals).

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Let's Grovel In An Old-Time Lent

Charles Redfern | Posted 04.25.2012 | Religion
Read More: Green Christianity, James Inhofe, Rick Santorum, Lent, John Shimkus, Cornwall Alliance, Senator James Inhofe, Green Faith, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Religion News
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.

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Robert W. Benson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Scopes Monkey Trial, Academy of Sciences, Climate Change Denial, Gop Climate Change, Climate Change Science, Jim Sensenbrenner, Duncan Hunter, John Shimkus, Politics News
Robert W. Benson

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Curiouser and Curiouser: How the Hill Is Handling Being in the Hole

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Economy, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations, Chesapeake Bay, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Air Quality, United States, Pollution, Mike Beard, Betty McCollum, U.S. Military, Todd Stern, John Shimkus, Religion, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Nascar, Oil, Unfccc, Coal Ash, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Offshore Energy, Ted Poe, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.In the words of Alice, "It would be so nice if something made sense." Alice, of course, was talking about the strang...

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GOP Climate Change Deniers Running For House Energy Committee

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Cap and Trade, John Shimkus, Henry Wasman, House Energy Committee, Regulation, Emissions, Cliff Stearns, Coal, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Joe Barton, Oil, Deregulation, Fred Upton, Global Warming, Politics News

The House Energy Committee is seeing an intense leadership fight, as four different Republicans are vying to take over the influential post from Democ...

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Hypocrisy or Co-Signing? Elton John Concert is Fundraiser for Anti-Gay Politicians

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Elton John, John Shimkus, Civil-Marriage-Equality, Jean Schmidt, Same Sex Marriage, Billy Joel, Entertainment News
Lisa Derrick

Despite campaigning for global gay rights, Elton John is very not supportive of civil marriage equality.

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How Should Religion Behave In Public?

Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: New Atheists, Public Policy, Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Religion and Politics, Richard Dawkins, John Shimkus, Moral Relativism, Christianity, God and the Public Square, Sam Harris, God and Politics, Environmentalism and Religion, Climate Change and God, Religion News
Amarnath Amarasingam

Religious believers, like everyone else in the public domain, must subject their moral principles and standards to the political test of scrutiny and analysis.

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Lucia Graves

BP Apologist Looking To Bend Term Limits In Longshot Bid For Energy Chairmanship

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Rep. Joe Barton, Joe Barton, Rep. John Shimkus, Gop Leadership, John Shimkus, Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) is waging a complex campaign to win the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee -- an...

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Unavoidable Climate Change -- Past the Point of No Return

Peter H. Gleick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Pacific Institute, Patrick Michaels, Climate Change, Rising Sea Level, Climate Impacts, John Shimkus, Global Warming, Climate Deniers, Green News
Peter H. Gleick

The world has missed the opportunity to avoid serious, damaging human-induced climate change. How bad it ultimately gets depends on how much longer Congress hides behind political ideology, and religion to deny the reality of climate change.

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Green News Report: November 18, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Asian Carp, Ben Nelson, Food Safety Legislation, Chevy Volt, Green Jobs, 2010 Elections, United Nations, Lame Duck Session, Innovation, Food Safety, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Solar Energy, U.S. Senate, General Motors, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Gop, John Inglis, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Coal Mining, Green Buildings, Global Warming, Illinois, Bp, Carbon Emissions, Bisphenol A, Exxon Mobil, Sustainable Development, John Shimkus, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Harry Reid, Bpa, Climate Legislation, Food Shortages, BP Oil Spill, Green News
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: BP made '...

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Connecting the Dots

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy Efficiency, Tea Party, John Shimkus, Epa, Global Warming Bible, Bladder Cancer, Tap Water, Light Bulbs, Drinking Water, Florescent Light Bulbs, Green News
Carl Pope

Illinois congressman John Shimkus dismisses global warming as being "unbiblical," claiming Genesis says God promised never again to flood the entire earth. But Shimkus doesn't seem to have learned his hymns very well.

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Green News Report: November 16, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Russia, Fast Food, Nasa, Green Jobs, 2010 Elections, Michael Mann, United Nations, Epa, Lame Duck Session, Clean Energy, Green News Report, John Rockefeller, Climategate, Water Crisis, Pipeline, Gazprom, Offshore Drilling, Phil Jones, cop16, Haiti Earthquake, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Bluefin Tuna, Global Warming, Bp, Copenhagen 2009, Carbon Emissions, Enron, Barack Obama, John Shimkus, Arctic, Energy Efficiency, Rand Paul, BRAD BLOG, Haiti, Green News, Harry Reid, Sustainability, Climate Legislation, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Nestle, Green News
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: The so-cal...

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Key House Republican Denies Climate Change On Religious Grounds

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John Shimkus, Shimkus Climate Change God, Climate Change, Shimkus Climate Change, Gop, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Shimkus Energy and Commerce, Shimkus, Shimkus God Climate Change, Gop Climate Change, Politics News

The highest-ranking House official in charge of environmental and energy policy may soon be a Republican legislator who denies climate change on the g...

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Green News Report: November 11, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Fast Food, Green Jobs, Fracking, 2010 Elections, Burn Pits, Epa, Hurricane Tomas, Birds, Bernie Sanders, Clean Energy, Camp Lejeune, Green News Report, Veterans, Offshore Drilling, Haiti Earthquake, National Security, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Bp, Toxic Water, Rush Limbaugh, Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Iea, Mother Jones, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, John Shimkus, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Arctic, Halliburton, Haiti, Green News, Climate Legislation, International Energy Agency, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Green News
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: Limbaugh ...

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Illinois GOP Tries To File Suit Against Health Reform, Madigan Says No Way

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Don Manzullo, Peter Roskam, Aaron Schock, John Shimkus, Health Reform Bill, Republicans Health Care Repeal, Health Care Reform, President Obama Health Care, Tim Johnson, Health Care Repeal, Health Reform, Illinois Republicans, Lisa Madigan, Judy Biggert, Chicago News

Falling in line with several states, Illinois Republicans have teamed up to try and stop the health care reform bill signed by President Obama on Tues...

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Health Care Reform: How Illinois Representatives Voted

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Donald Manzullo, Peter Roskam, Aaron Schock, Dan Lipinski, John Shimkus, Mark Kirk, Illinois Democrats, Tim Johnson, Healthcare Reform, Illinois Republicans, Health Reform, Judy Biggert, Chicago News

Dan Lipinski was the only Illinois Democrat to vote against health care reform--but he was not the only Illinois representative to vote "no." Republ...

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40 Members Of Congress Reportedly Sleep In Their Capitol Hill Offices

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Congressional Offices, Capitol Hill, Bobby Rush, Dan Lipinski, Congress, John Shimkus, Sleeping in Office, Luis Gutierrez, Quigley, Politics News

It's going on 10 p.m. when House Democrat Mike Quigley, in track pants and a T-shirt, tosses a flimsy mattress on the floor of his congressional offic...

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Rep. John Shimkus To Stay Put During State Of The Union, Walked Out On Obama's Speech In September

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: John Shimkus Walkout, Joe Wilson, Rep. John Shimkus, Joe Wilson You Lie, Illinois Republicans, John Shimkus, State of the Union Address 2010, Chicago News

When South Caroline Rep. Joe Wilson shouted at President Obama during his speech before a joint session of Congress in September, it was hard to see p...

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John Shimkus On CO2 Pollution: 'Does EPA Propose We Stop Breathing?'

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Shimkus Co2, Rep. John Shimkus, John Shimkus, Epa Co2, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Copenhagen, Shimkus, Shimkus Climate Change, Shimkus Epa, Green News

(AP) WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. John Shimkus is speaking out against the Environmental Protection Agency's recent action on greenhouse gases. The EPA has...

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Shimkus' Obama Walkout Could Create Campaign Problems

NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Danny Stover, Tim Bagwell, Shimkus Challenger, Gop, Obama Health Care Speech, Shimkus Obama, Shimkus Opponent, John Shimkus, Chicago News

When downstate Republican Congressman John Shimkus walked out on the president's health care speech last week, he might have walked into an actual re-...

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The Wizards of "No"

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Fillibuster, Energy Bill, Senate, Town Hall Meetings, John Shimkus, Green News
Carl Pope

The American people have not consented to the continued control of our lives, environment, and economy that is currently enjoyed by the coal and oil industries.

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