Rep Edward Markey

People Always Have the Right to Opt Out

Chuck Teller | Posted 10.03.2011

Chuck Teller

Americans receive nearly 90 billion pieces of advertising mail every year. With thousands of companies offering to share their mailing lists, that adds up to an information super highway where individuals are losing control.

Nuclear Naysayers and the National Interest

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.28.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

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.

GOP Chooses Non-Scientist Lord Monckton as Sole Expert Witness at Climate Change Hearing

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Brendan DeMelle

With such a long record of inflammatory, baseless statements, what could the GOP possibly see in Monckton that would warrant his appearance as an expert witness on a climate science panel otherwise made up of scientists?

Oil Industry's "Island Vacations" from Regulation

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

Rep. Ed Markey

The administration's safety pause isn't about ending offshore drilling, it is about ending the oil industry's practice of offshoring the safety of rigs by using various "island getaways" from regulation.

Palin: Birthing Global Warming Denial

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

Rep. Ed Markey

The right-wing misinformation machine is in full swing. And that machine doesn't have its final cylinder cranking until Sarah Palin jumps into the fray, which she did today in a mistake-riddled, anti-clean energy op-ed.

Time for Net Neutrality

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

Rep. Ed Markey

Since its earliest days, the Internet has been guided by the principles of non-discrimination and freedom. And as it continues to evolve, we are now faced with a choice.

Stop The Energy Department From Hiking Oil Prices By Reinstituting Purchases For The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

In essence the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, rather than being our oil safety valve, has become a welfare program for the oil industry and one of the nation's most outrageous boondoggles.