Senate

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that, due to a lack of support, the American Power Act was being sidelined.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to introduce and energy bill today that up until last week contained measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - like a cap-and-trade mechanism and a Renewable Energy Standard.

There is a wide range of companies developing biofuels -- and we are focusing today on the two most advanced pure-play publicly traded companies: 

Senator Robert Byrd passed away early this morning, just days after a study [pdf] showing that coal is a money loser for his home state of West Virginia.

Trying to answer the troubling questions about how the BP Oil Disaster was allowed to happen keeps turning up the same catastrophic mixture of lies, mismanagement, corner cutting, and recklessness. It’s clear now that the oil companies know how to get oil from deep underwater, but have no idea how to prevent or stop a disaster with any reliability.

The BP oil disaster has captured the eyes of billions, and rightly so.  However, I am choosing not to introduce this post with a news update on the latest from the tragedy -- you'll get enough while reading the top ten.

There was a flurry of activity on Capital Hill yesterday as the entire Senate Democratic caucus met to discuss climate legislation and what form a bill might take this summer.

The GOP is up in arms because they believe that President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress are politicizing the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to pass climate change legislation through the Senate.

As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico and climate and clean energy legislation remains stalled in the Senate, President Obama has an opportunity to do more than criticize BP’s bumbling CEO, To

It appears as if climate change legislation has found some unlikely allies in corporate America.