Kate Sheppard

There was yet another Democratic debate last night, the 20th thus far in the primary. Since we’ve had this record number of debates this year, there was of course not much new information presented in last night’s event, short of There was yet another Democratic debate last night, the 20th thus far in the primary. […]

I mentioned a few weeks ago that Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman, and other congressional Democrats are challenging EPA administrator Stephen Johnson‘s decision to deny California and 16 other states a waiver to allow them to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles, and had subpoenaed internal EPA documents on the matter. Yesterday […]

Some folks in the United Kingdom and Ireland are floating the idea of individual carbon allowances as the best way to combat global warming. This would mean that a limit would be set how much carbon dioxide an individual can emit from his or her household and transportation, and those who exceed their limits would […]

The The Clinton campaign sent out a statement yesterday about the now well-circulated photo of rival Barack Obama dressed in a Somali robe. The Clinton campaign says they didn’t release the photo to Drudge, and I really have no way of knowing who did put the photo out there. But the response from the Clinton […]

Ezra points to a New York Times chart from a few years ago that demonstrates that average median hourly wages for high school drop outs — the demographic most likely to compete with immigrants for jobs — don’t seem to be driven down by higher immigration rates. States with higher percentages of undocumented immigrants like […]

It’s been a rough month for the coal industry, after the country’s leading financial institutions announced they’re putting in place tougher standards for financing new power plants and the Department of Energy pulled funding from their pie-in-the-sky “clean coal” project. The energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie recently released a report on the future of coal, […]

Not to Not to harp on John McCain‘s lack of green credibility or anything, but the League of Conservation Voters released their annual congressional scorecard yesterday, and the “Maverick” scored a giant goose egg on all things environmental in 2007 – worse than representatives who had terminal illnesses or even died during this session, as […]

One can’t talk about coal without noting its influence in this campaign season. A very obvious place we see its thrust: the industry is once again sponsoring the Democratic presidential debate tonight. “Americans for Balanced Energy Choices,” an astroturf organization that promotes the interests of mining and other coal-related companies, has sponsored a number of […]