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The wind industry ramped up pressure on Congress Wednesday to extend a key tax credit, arguing that thousands of jobs are at stake. “We have a lot riding on this, not only as an industry, but as a country,” Denise Bode, president of the American Wind Energy Association, the wind... Read More

More than 40 percent of the public lives in regions with unhealthy levels of air pollution, a new report from the American Lung Association says. The public health group, in its annual State of the Air report, said air quality has dramatically improved in recent decades as a... Read More

A free-market group has scored a hit with an ominous, gloomy video warning that environmental regulations and restrictions on fossil fuels are putting America on a path to ruin. The roughly five-minute video, titled “If I wanted America to fail,” is from the group Free Market... Read More

House leaders on Wednesday evening announced 33 conferees to the federal highway bill, which could begin meeting with their Senate counterparts as early as this week. Twenty of the 33 are Republicans: Reps. John Mica (Fla.), Don Young (Alaska), John Duncan (Tenn.), Bill Shuster... Read More

State of Play: Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a conservative group funded partially by the billionaire Koch brothers, will unveil its latest advertising campaign that takes aim at President Obama’s energy policies Thursday. The group is unveiling the “massive new TV ad effort”... Read More

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2012 sees the turn of Shanghai to host the IThEO Conference, which is entirely appropriate, because China is taking the lead in exploring fresh approaches to nuclear fission in its quest for sustainable, environment-responsible energy that can be delivered reliably and in... Read More

A new super-PAC ad released Wednesday portrays Mitt Romney as smudged with the fingerprints of Big Oil. The ad calls Romney the “$200 million man” and charges him with wanting to protect the oil industry’s interests, a loaded accusation with gas prices already... Read More

A federal judge will examine a proposed settlement stemming from the BP oil spill Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. Reuters reports that shrimpers aren’t happy with the settlement. Halliburton is also opposed to the settlement, according to Bloomberg. An advertisement... Read More

President Obama is vowing to make the case for action on global warming during the 2012 campaign. “I suspect that over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we’re going to... Read More