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Andrew Revkin of the New York Times Dot Earth blog revealed recently leaked email memos and publicly available written pieces that show climate scientists furiously debating the best strategy for reclaiming public support for green initiatives.
"Cap and Trade is dead," said Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) last weekend. Graham, working in a bipartisan effort with Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) and Joe Lieberman (I-Con) confirmed that the group would be abandoning cap and trade in their last effort to pass a climate bill before the midterm electi...
As record snowfall encases the Washington DC, climate skeptic congressmen and political pundits are using the opportunity to mock climate science. Some climate scientists are responding that global warming is to blame for the unusually cold winter and extreme weather, and point to the abnormally hig...
Discussed at length by both Reuters and The New York Times, the election of Republican Scott Brown to serve as Massachusetts Senator may have even worse implications on the future of greenhouse gas regulation than it does on the healthcare bill. The loss in Massachusetts, a "deep-blue" state that ha...
Last year, on the first day of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Obama revealed a way that he could sidestep Congress and use the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gasses. Today, Senate Republicans are moving to block Obama and strip the EPA of this right indefinitely.
Eco Factory first met Nadine Patrice at Miami Goin' Green, where we learned of the horrible environmental plight affecting Haiti and pushing many into crushing poverty. We learned of the corruption that allowed the once-verdant forests of Haiti to give way to barren rock. Today, 98% of Haiti is unfa...
Cap and Trade, now stuck in a Senate log jam, is looking less likely to pass, said renewable energy lobbyist Chris Stimpson. According to Stimpson, faltering public opinion polls, the upcoming mid-term election, and the health care bill are pushing cap and trade farther and farther back on the Congr...
Billionaire investor and self-proclaimed "oil man" T. Boone Pickens returned to Washington to give a presentation on the virtues of switching a bulk of American commercial fleets to natural gas. Pickens held a joint media event with former White House chief of staff, John Podesta, to advocate a tax...
Climate change skepticism is likely to surge through 2010, crippling hopes of preventing the worst effects of global warming said UN Climate Chief Rajendra Pachauri. The IPCC Director cited "powerful vested interests" that he says will be working overtime all through the year to confuse the public a...
As negotiations in Copenhagen extended into the small hours of Saturday morning, delegates finally emerged with a final document that some felt could be the only agreeable solution. The so called Copenhagen Accord took form as a three page "gentleman's agreement" that asserts that all countries shou...
