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OPNTALK (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
So does Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe Hey folks, I really do not have much to add to this one. This is great all by itself. Here it is. Investor's Business Daily - The Day Global Warming Stood Still Posted 11/20/2009 07:46 PM ET Climate Change: As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
[JURIST] The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an attempt to bar using federal funds to build or modify prisons in the US to hold detainees from Guantanamo Bay. By a mostly party-line 57-43 vote, the Senate defeated an amendment to the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, proposed by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), which would have prevented federal funds from being used to construct...
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blue oklahoma - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is drawing criticism from a Washington, D.C. civil rights organization for threatening to filibuster a judge nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Inhofe's action contradicts his earlier stance against judicial filibusters, according to a statement released by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights . The judge is David Hamilton, who has the support of his home-state U.S....
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Democrats Barbara Boxer (CA) and John Kerry (MA) moved away from discussing the environmental impacts of climate change -- and the reason, therefore, to take action to reduce carbon emissions -- and focused instead on the economic benefits of a domestic clean energy economy. Meanwhile, Republicans James Inhofe (OK) and Lamar Alexander (TN) complained that energy bills would rise and Americans would...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Climate Bill has emerged victorious out of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, with Democratic members exploiting a loophole that negated their Rebublican peers’ three-day boycott. Led by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who sponsored the bill with Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) 10 Democrats gave the bill their stamp of approval today without adding any amendments....
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Today was the last of three days of hearings this week on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA), introduced by John Kerry (D-Mass) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) on September 30th. But the seven Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee haven’t been playing fair so far – or playing at all. They’ve tried to hold the process in abeyance by insisting...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
In the wake of its health care reform victory yesterday (the inclusion of a public option), the Obama administration today turned its attention to climate change — it’s other big campaign promise that has yet to come to fruition. While Energy Secretary Steven Chu lobbied for the Kerry-Boxer climate bill on Capitol Hill, president Obama unveiled $3.4 billion in grants for carbon-minimizing...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Get [Allegedly] Smart: Team Obama’s $3 Billion Smart Grid Push - Environmental Capital - WSJ And consumers aren’t totally convinced by the smart grid either. So far, smart grid pilot projects have offered more upside to utilities than their customers . In some places, such as California, folks are angry at higher power bills they blame on smart meters and the smart grid. Others worry about...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
WASHINGTON — Senators tussled over the cost of climate legislation Tuesday with the leading author of the bill maintaining that while energy prices will increase, inaction on global warming would cause even worse economic and security problems. "Are there some costs? Yes sir, there are some costs," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.. But of the array of studies that show restricting greenhouse...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Is Copenhagen Dead? | Mother Jones For enviros holding out hope for Copenhagen, the Podesta-Pachauri statement is a major downer. The two are dramatically depressing expectations —and plotting out an alternative track to the Copenhagen process. What makes Podesta's pessimism especially noteworthy is that for years he was a mentor to Todd Stern, who is now the senior US negotiator for Copenhagen....
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Pacific Views (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
GOP senate nutcase James Inhofe of Oklahoma continues to amaze with his great intellectual honesty: At a town hall meeting Wednesday Sen. Jim Inhofe told Chickasha residents he does not need to read the 1,000 page health care reform bill, he will simply vote against it. "I don't have to read it, or know what's in it. I'm going to oppose it anyways," he said. If that's not enough for you,...
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Rod 2.0:Beta (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
As the Senate is poised to confirm confirms Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation's first ever Supreme Court justice of Hispanic descent, anti-gay, anti-science and pro-global warming Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma calls the new Supreme Court justice a...
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NC Media Watch (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
Russ Steele Senator Inhofe’s gave a prepared a speech on Waxman-Markey exposing the other side of the issue: Sen. James Inhofe on July 27, 2009, on Waxman-Markey Exposed. It’s safe to say that at 3:09 am on June 26th, most...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Senator Jon Kyl, R-A.Z., pushed back against his GOP colleagues on Sunday for suggesting that they could break the president and reap electoral advantage in 2010 if they derail health care reform, calling statements to that effect "unfortunate." "I don't agree with that kind of language," said the Senator, when read comments from Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and James Inhofe, R-Okl....
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe greeted Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. just moments before the start of Huntsman's confirmation hearing to become ambassador to China.
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