Tag: Climate Change

A wooden stick with a pink ribbon marks the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline, near Bradshaw, Neb., on March 11. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

MIT professor: Keystone XL pipline won’t increase greenhouse gas emissions

Ashe Schow · January 30, 2014 5:00 am

Opponents of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., argued that delaying the rate increases would continue to incentivize people moving into flood-prone areas, which will become more widespread as rising sea levels and warmer waters propelled by climate change threaten to intensify storms. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Senate passes flood insurance bill

Zack Colman · January 30, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday. (AP/Larry Downing)

Restating the State of the Union

John Stossel · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

Opponents of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., argued that delaying the rate increases would continue to incentivize people moving into flood-prone areas, which will become more widespread as rising sea levels and warmer waters propelled by climate change threaten to intensify storms. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Senate takes up flood insurance bill as GOP backs alternative

Zack Colman · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Obama touts oil and gas development in State of the Union address

Energy and Environment

Obama touts oil and gas development in State of the Union address

Zack Colman · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Washington Secrets

It’s too cold: Half of millennials blame cold on climate change

Paul Bedard · January 26, 2014 5:00 am

Rock star Bono speaks during a panel discussion "The Post-2015 Goals: Inspiring a New Generation to Act", the fifth annual Associated Press debate, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Cameron, Bono link poverty, climate at AP debate

John Heilprin · January 24, 2014 8:06 pm

The mobile drilling unit Kulluk is towed by tugs in high winds and high seas some 116 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska, in December 2012. (AP Photo/U.S Coast Guard, Chris Usher)

Energy and Environment

After a year on ice, Shell looks to Arctic drilling

Zack Colman · January 24, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony at Compact Power, Inc., a battery plant in Holland, Mich., in July 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Obama stresses US position as climate leader

Zack Colman · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Last week, an unsigned editorial in the Investors Business Daily proposed that global warming is a back door to socialism. (Thinkstock)

Global warmists aim to disempower America

Ron Arnold · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Children line up to receive a Christmas gift from volunteers near a giant lantern with the colors of the Philippine flag, in Tacloban, Philippines, a city devastated by the Nov. 8 typhoon Haiyan. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Energy and Environment

NOAA: World in 2013 was 4th hottest on record

Seth Borenstein · January 21, 2014 10:11 pm

Environmentalists assume that as people get richer and use more energy, they pollute more. The opposite is true. As nations industrialize, they pay more attention to pollution. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Let’s chill out about global warming

John Stossel · January 21, 2014 5:00 am