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Sponsors Dump Heartland After Ad Backfires

Last Friday, the long-standing climate denier think tank, the Heartland Institute ran an advert featuring the Unabomber on a billboard in Chicago that read "I still believe in Global Warming? Do you?" The Unabomber advert was going to be followed...

Fred Upton: Dirty Energy’s BFF on the Supercommittee

Written by Ross Hammond There may be no better example of the corrupting influence of Dirty Energy Money in the current Congress than Supercommittee member Representative Fred Upton of Michigan. In July Upton warned of the dangers of private lobbying...

End “the Century of Subsidy”? Maybe next year…

Slowly but surely the battle lines are being drawn for the upcoming Presidential election.  President Obama built his State of the Union address on one of fairness. In doing so Obama reminded Americans that there is a clear choice when...

The Downsides of “Extreme Energy”

So its official: fracking causes earthquakes. Just minutes ago, a report published by the oil company Cuadrilla as to whether its drilling operations caused two “earthquakes” back in April and May, concluded that fracking was the "highly probable" cause of...

Will The Real Max Baucus Stand Up Please?

In less than two weeks the Congressional Supercommittee must submit a plan to Congress to reduce the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion. One of the big questions is whether the Supercommittee will recommend cutting billions of dollars in subsidies...