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The Simplest Multi-Billion Dollar Budget Cut of All: Oil Subsidies

3:44 pm in barack obama, Business & Politics, congress, oil, united states by TreeHugger

oil-rig-offshore-coast-drilling.jpg Photo credit: mikebaird via Flickr/CC BY If you're looking for compelling evidence that GOP power brokers don't really care about reducing the deficit -- beyond purporting to do so in order to push their anti-government spending narrative, of course -- look no further than the party's stance on Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Building Tar Sands Pipeline "Will Keep America Addicted to Oil" (Video)

12:25 pm in Business & Politics, congress, oil, united states by TreeHugger

Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, last captured the nation's attention with his passionate sort-of-filibuster that took on the rising income inequality gulf in America, and skewered a political culture that increasingly favors the wealthy and corporate interests. Now, one of the nation's last truly populist senators is publicly condemning the proposed tar sands pipeline that the Obama administration is currently considering for approval -- and applauding the good folks<...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Green-Friendly" Republicans In This Congress Are Anything But

11:52 am in Business & Politics, congress, united states by TreeHugger

climate-committee-closed.jpg Photo: laszlo-photo via Flickr/CC BY And the bar has officially been lowered. If the media sees it somehow newsworthy that "greens" are not absolutely "friendless" in the House GOP merely because a few Republicans voted to allow the Endangered Species Act to continue to exist -- as this report from a mainstream newspaper does -- we are in dire straits indeed. Just witnes...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Trent Lott Calls for a Higher Gas Tax (Video)

3:25 pm in Business & Politics, congress, united states by TreeHugger

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How Climate Change Became a "Litmus Test" for Republicans

2:33 pm in Business & Politics, congress, global climate change, united states by TreeHugger

climate-committee-closed.jpg Photo: laszlo-photo via Flickr/CC BY There's nothing extraordinarily groundbreaking in the analysis the American climate scientist Raymond S. Bradley offers in his tour de force op-ed in the Guardian today, but he details our nation's political problem with global warming so well that it's worth a close read. Here's Bradley's take on th...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could a Carbon Tax Emerge from the Debt Ceiling Crisis?

3:33 pm in Business & Politics, carbon emissions, congress, united states by TreeHugger

shame-polluters-action.jpg Photo: thewritingzone, Flickr/CC BY-SA So, the Senate has just passed a plan that allows the government to raise the debt ceiling -- just in time to prevent the United States from careening into an unprecedented default scenario. Hooray! But it meant Democrats and a more-spineless-than-ever Obama caving in to conser...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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GOP has Voted 110 Times to Block Efforts to Protect the Environment Since January

4:30 pm in air pollution, Business & Politics, congress, conservation, united states by TreeHugger

air-pollution-epa-scientists.jpg Image: Sudika via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA For anyone still puzzling over why I view the Tea Party to be an egregiously destructive force when it comes to the environment, look no further than this evidence: In the seven months since the Tea Party-led GOP has been in control of the House of Representatives, they have voted n...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Democratic Leaders Excoriate Congressional Republicans, Say This is the "Most Anti-environment House in the History of Congress"

11:08 pm in Business & Politics, congress, News, republicans, tar sands, waxman-markey by TreeHugger

ed-markey-best-of-green.jpg Rep. Ed Markey, photo via flickr Many greens, including me, had big problems with Waxman-Markey, the failed cap and trade bill that would have finally priced carbon but also given a lifeline to the coal industry. Whatever your feelings for the bill, the congressmen behind it, Ed Markey (MA) and Henry Waxman (CA), have always been stalwart defenders of the environment. That's why they have...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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GOP Pres. Hopeful Jon Huntsman: "We Have a Heroin-Like Addiction to Oil"

1:01 pm in Business & Politics, congress, oil, united states by TreeHugger

jon-huntsman-oil-addiction.jpg Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr/CC BY Poor old Jon Huntsman. To my eyes, he's the most sensible and intellectually capable candidate to emerge in the GOP field yet. He's moderate, and acknowledges the existence of both science and reality. Case in point: during a recent campaign speech, Hunstman noted that the United States has "a heroin-like addiction to imported oil." And he's got that silvery-gray hair that makes him look all presidential! Of course, all the those things cited above (besides maybe the silve...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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U.S. Gas Taxes About to Expire: Get Ready for Congress’s Next Meltdown

1:21 pm in Business & Politics, congress, united states by TreeHugger

gas-tax-expire.jpg Photo credit: Kevin Cole via Flickr/CC BY Oh good. The gas tax -- the small fee that imposed on consumers of gas when they fill up their tanks is about to expire. Our gas taxes are already much, much smaller than almost all of the rest of the developed world. But not to worry. I'm sure that the eminently reasonable Tea Party will recognize that the gas tax helps pay for the infrastructure and road repairs that allows us to drive in the first place, and intelligently vote to exten...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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