Tag: Global Warming

Long-term global warming and a strong El Nino early in the year were cited as the reasons for the uptick in temperature. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Energy and Environment

2016 was the hottest year on record: Study

Anna Giaritelli · August 10, 2017 6:26 pm

Is solar energy now suddenly affordable and reliable despite its checkered history? Up until now, it has not been able to stand on its own two feet without substantial subsidies. The authors of a two-year, taxpayer-funded study acknowledge that the answer to that question is: not quite. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Beltway Confidential

Cronyism ruled Obama’s Energy Department

Kevin Mooney · August 9, 2017 7:37 pm

In light of Google's self-parodying firing of a worker who criticized the tech company for not allowing alternative thoughts, please forgive me for sharing some of the things I believe despite the counter-ethos of the cowardly, vengeful Left. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Beltway Confidential

On Google, diversity, facts, and our differences

Quin Hillyer · August 9, 2017 6:49 pm

If the government is paying Centene to provide insurance, it's not exactly a market-economy corporation. (iStock by Getty Images)

New York Times correction: Climate study Trump wanted ‘suppressed’ was out in January

Eddie Scarry · August 9, 2017 5:30 pm

People's opinions are highly correlated with partisan loyalty, but few feel particularly strongly about it. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Lukewarm and partisan on global warming

Michael Barone · August 9, 2017 3:29 pm

The U.S. delegation to the United Nations will then inform the international body of its decision. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy and Environment

State Department to issue formal notice of US withdrawal from Paris climate deal on Friday: Report

Anna Giaritelli, John Siciliano · August 4, 2017 5:49 pm

Former Vice President Al Gore said he was surprised that President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

Energy and Environment

Al Gore says Trump has emboldened a ‘rogue’s gallery’ of climate change deniers

Josh Siegel · August 2, 2017 2:22 am

The Sierra Club tried censoring Scott Pruitt after the EPA administrator said in March that carbon dioxide is not creating climate change. It didn't go well. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

EPA scientific integrity office clears Scott Pruitt’s global warming comments, tells Sierra Club to pound sand

Philip Wegmann · August 1, 2017 5:57 pm

Unlike other materials, plastic is unable to break down. As a result, three-quarters of all plastic is not recycled but send to landfills. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

There’s enough unrecycled plastic to bury Manhattan under two miles of garbage

Anna Giaritelli · July 19, 2017 7:39 pm

"We're continuing to put good innovative ideas to work, just like yesterday in West Virginia at the high efficiency, low emission coal plant. That's the type of technology I'd like to see deployed into China and India and other areas of the United States and around the world to help use the natural resources that we abundantly have in a clean and thoughtful way and produce jobs and power," says Energy Secretary Rick Perry. (Justin Merriman for the Washington Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Rick Perry: We aim for energy domination

Salena Zito · July 17, 2017 4:02 am

For liberals who are vocal about the right of women to abort their own growing, unborn babies, it stands to reason the same group would applaud the concept of merely avoiding having babies altogether, or at least family planning, for the environment's sake. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

‘Study’ finds fewer children would help climate change — liberals applaud

Nicole Russell · July 12, 2017 8:49 pm

In filing the brief, several attorneys general expressed concern that the investigation, led by Schneiderman and Healey, was being used as a tool to silence anyone who disagreed with their views on global climate change. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Beltway Confidential

In New York, a rogue attorney general promotes himself rather than justice

Peter Roff · July 12, 2017 12:00 am