Yikes.

John Boehner, the new speaker of the House, once said: "The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical."  Congresswoman-elect Vicky Hartzler has called global warming a hoax.  And I don't want to get started on the Tea Party again -- but the victorious Rand Paul does not believe in man-made climate change.

Meanwhile, Washington Republican Doc Hastings who is likely to become the new chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, wants the Obama administration to keep on drilling for oil and gas, both offshore and on federal lands.

The House of Representatives now only has FOUR Republicans who have publicly admitted that global warming pollution is real.   (Yet, NONE of them voted in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act!!!)... read more

Sarah Palin and other right-wingers have been exploiting the Juan Williams story as an excuse to convince Congress to defund NPR.  Conservatives have wanted to defund public broadcasting for a long time.  This isn't a new issue at all, sadly -- in fact, none other than Mister Rogers stood before the Senate in 1969 to defend public broadcasting.  

NPR, PBS, PRI, and Pacifica have always been big supporters of environmental causes.  While most other mainstream news stations don't cover a whole lot of environmental stories, public broadcasting does.... read more

I'm sure many of you are tired of hearing about the Tea Party.  I'M tired of hearing about the Tea Party.  We know what they stand for:  free markets, limited government, etc.  

But, what are their platforms when it comes to the environment?  It comes as no surprise that many Tea Party candidates seem to be anti-environment.  

Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate, Dan Maes, a Tea Party darling, opposed Denver's bike sharing program.  In fact, he accused Denver's Mayor John Hickenlooper of "converting Denver into a United Nations community" via the bike sharing program.... read more