James Inhofe
Will Akin and Ryan Save Elizabeth Warren?
Is This What The Climate-Change Debate Has Come To?
Is The EPA Ignoring Congress with Its Climate Rules?
Why The GOP's Earmark Ban Is Doomed
Leaving Global Warming To The Bureaucrats
In his TRB column this week, Jon Chait argues that EPA regulation is the best option left for tackling global warming, given the deadlock in the Senate. True, relying on the EPA's regulatory tools won't be the most elegant or efficient way of reducing greenhouse gases—a market-based cap-and-trade system would be far more flexible. But Senate conservatives are dead-set on blocking the elegant and efficient solution. Meanwhile, Jon's section on why some issues are better left to unelected bureaucrats was interesting: READ MORE >>
What Makes Elena Kagan Tick?
Why Are The Himalayas Melting? Blame Soot.
'Climategate' Not Making Much Of A Splash In Congress
So are those leaked East Anglia e-mails having much effect on the Senate climate debate? It doesn't seem so. Here's The Hill's Ben Geman: Centrist Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) argues that the "climategate" e-mails should be probed on Capitol Hill, but the e-mails haven't changed her views on global warming. READ MORE >>
