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As long as we keep taking no serious action on climate and clean energy, there’s nothing to stop the energy bills of Americans from rising.  Daniel J. Weiss, CAP’s Director of Climate Strategy, explains what’s in store this summer. The m...

Polling data is misunderstood and misread all of the time.  The public strongly supports action on climate and clean energy legislation, even if it raises their energy bill by $10 a month, but even (lazy) environmentalists are unaware of that. Now it turn...

The American Farm Bureau is continuing to lie to farmers about the threat of Clean Air Act regulation of greenhouse gases.  Brad Johnson has the story in this Wonk Room repost. The Bureau, the largest lobbying group for American agriculture, denies the th...

I understand why anti-science disinformers like Marc Morano kick climate science messaging when it’s down.  But why Josh Dorfman? The Host of “The Lazy Environmentalist” writes on Huffpost how he got truck drivers and other car enthusias...

The bipartisan effort of Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kerry (D-MA), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to craft comprehensive clean energy legislation that caps global warming pollution has brought some positive words from Big Oil and their political allies...

The response to the [email] vandals is to bury them with the data and experience of a century of scholarly research and analysis. The information that is important in making the decisions as to how to manage our world is unequivocal and must be advance...

Governments estimated to spend $500 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels The world might be spending as much as $500 billion annually to subsidize fossil fuels, researchers working at the direction of President Obama and other leaders have found. But...

What I think Obama needs to be doing now is hard lobbying one-on-one with key swing senators.  That way he can focus on a targeted pitch for each one and have a frank discussion.  He needs to start moving people one-by-one from the “fence sitterR...

A few weeks ago, Obama tripled the budget for the nuclear loan guarantee program,  though there hasn’t been a single promising application in two years.   CAP Policy Analyst Richard W. Caperton explains what that risky move means for American taxpay...

Colorado isn’t waiting for Washington to move aggressively on clean energy, as CAP Senior Fellow Tom Kenworthy explains here. On March 5, the state Senate approved a measure to increase Colorado’s renewable energy standard (RES) to 30% by 2020, and on Mar...