WASHINGTON — Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
[UPDATED -- See part 2 in the Talking Points section.] This week's column will be presented in a sort of semi-liveblogging fashion. What you're getti...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 10.25.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — The House, responding to growing public demand for more domestic energy, voted Wednesday to end a quarter-century ban on oil and na...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, ...
Grist | Kate Sheppard | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green
After a day-long debate over energy legislation, the House passed the Democrats' "Comprehensive American Energy Security & Consumer Protection Act," a...
Al Meyerhoff | Posted 07.29.2008 | Green
The Bush assault on environmental protection is unprecedented -- it reaches deep into a host of government procedures and regulations, including rampant cronyism in key agencies and open hostility on Capitol Hill.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green
There is an insidious nature to the rightwingers' propaganda about offshore oil drilling because they frame the issue in terms that seem commonsensical: "Drill more oil here at home and gas prices will go down."
Posted 07.22.2008 | Business
***UPDATE*** 1:29pm: Bush has lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling. Today's financial headlines tell a story of a nation in bailout mode. B...
Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
Many Americans realize that destroying environmental resources to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like "something is being done."
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday lifted an executive ban on offshore oil drilling and challenged Congress to follow suit, aiming to turn th...
Earthfirst | Stephanie Rogers | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
When you can't legally run for President, it frees you up to say the darndest things. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared at the Florida Climate Change Sum...
PolitckerKY | Trey Pollard | Posted 07.12.2008 | Green
A proponent of expanded drilling in both the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, incumbent U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Louisvi...
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush is accusing Democrats in Congress of blocking his energy proposals, saying they are partly to blame for high gasolin...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.28.2008 | Green
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday he opposes lifting a ban on new oil drilling in coastal waters, breaking with President Bush and Republican ...
Lester Feder | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
This week, McCain infuriated environmental groups by reversing his opposition to off-shore oil drilling and tying himself to President Bush, who called on Congress to lift the drilling ban.
New York Times | Jad Mouawad and Martin Fackler | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
As President Bush calls for repealing a ban on drilling off most of the coast of the United States, a shortage of ships used for deep-water offshore d...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Invoking Tim Russert on the day of his funeral, California Rep. Darrell Issa (R), called for the revocation of the offshore oil drilling ban. As congr...
Carl Pope | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green
The past week has been a spectacular testament to the iron grip that Big Oil has on American politics. Cheney proceeded to lie through his teeth -- getting caught, but only for the smaller lie.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
ARLINGTON, Va. — Sen. John McCain said Monday the federal moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling should be lifted, and individual states gi...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics