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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hopes to bring climate change legislation to the floor if Democrats keep their majority in the upper chamber in this fall’s elections, according to a news report. Reid told Greenwire Tuesday that he hopes the Senate will return to... Read More

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced new plans Wednesday to craft carbon capture and sequestration legislation as part of a wider push to hold the coal and power industries more accountable to concerns about climate change and public health. Rockefeller sent a letter last... Read More

President Obama’s campaign is seeking political mileage in Colorado from his push to extend wind energy tax credits that GOP rival Mitt Romney wants to let expire. “The issue of clean energy and specifically the recent wind-tax credit debate is … a huge issue in Colorado,”... Read More

A recent draft report issued by the National Petroleum Council (NPC) suggests that natural gas from shale formations can and will continue to play a critical role in our nation’s transportation future. According to the report — available in full here — “the potential for a... Read More

The Associated Press reports on efforts to understand the big fire at a Chevron refinery in California. “Investigators were looking at how a small, seemingly insignificant leak at one of the country’s biggest oil refineries quickly unraveled into an intense fire that sent acrid... Read More

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is lamenting the lack of attention to climate change and gun control in the presidential contest while touting city-level action on the environment and other matters. Bloomberg talks climate — and plenty more — in a frank interview with Time... Read More

Mitt Romney was campaigning in Iowa on Wednesday, but the presumptive Republican presidential nominee steered clear of his campaign’s controversial announcement that he would end a tax credit for wind energy that remains extremely popular in the pivotal swing state. During... Read More

July was the hottest month on record in the contiguous United States, helping to make the first seven months of the year the warmest since record-keeping began more than a century ago, according to new federal data. The average July temperature was 77.6°F, which is 3.3°F above... Read More

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) bucked the opinion of most climate scientists and Democrats when he discounted the existence of climate change in a New Orleans Times-Picayune story Wednesday. Scalise was commenting on the widely publicized reversal of Koch Industries-backed University... Read More

The outgoing White House regulations chief circulated industry attacks on proposed smog standards among high-level advisers to President Obama, emails released to The Hill through a FOIA request show. Cass Sunstein, the regulatory official, ensured that White House aides... Read More