Environmental Protection Agency
The Toxicity Panic
Smoke Signals
Cuccinelli’s War
Man Versus Wild
Republicans Unanimously Reject Climate Science
Well, this is depressing: House Republicans rejected amendments offered Tuesday by Democrats that called on Congress to accept the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, that it is caused in large part by human activity and it is a threat to human health. READ MORE >>
The GOP's Anti-EPA Campaign vs. Public Opinion
House Republicans have voted to slash 80% of the budget from the E.P.A. department collecting emissions data from corporations: House lawmakers voted Wednesday evening to drastically reduce the budget of an Environmental Protection Agency program that collects data on greenhouse-gas emissions from U.S. companies, as part of Republicans' continuing push to reduce the regulatory reach of the agency. READ MORE >>
Show Me the Money
President Obama’s 2012 budget contains an impressive array of spending cuts: Pell Grants, EPA state water infrastructure programs, and housing for the elderly, just to name a few. I, like many other writers at TNR, am unhappy with some of these cuts. Deep cuts were probably inevitable, given the professed determination to balance budgets. READ MORE >>
Is This What The Climate-Change Debate Has Come To?
No Love Gained
Freeze!
In tonight's State of the Union, President Obama will propose to freeze discretionary, non-defense spending at current levels for five years. I believe ABC News' Jake Tapper was the first to report the story. Administration officials are now confirming it, via statements like this: READ MORE >>
