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BP will have to pay royalties on all oil and gas that it captures from the Macondo well, which has been leaking thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of

A new Pew Research poll shows broad support for a variety of energy policy options currently on the table in Congress but no public consensus on top

This week the National Transportation Safety Board will hold an uncommon three-day public fact-finding hearing on the Pacific Gas & Electric pipeline

CANCÚN, MEXICO — At the recent opening ceremony of the United Nations climate talks in Cancún, Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa spoke of climate change as a challenge that humanity must heed as a call to action. “Putting a stop to climate change is a true challenge,” he said, “and there is only one power to rise to this challenge: The power of humanity itself.” During a two-week summit, which ends December 10, negotiators and world leaders will once again attempt to hammer out agreements on climate change, carbon emission reductions, adaptation and mitigation.

The former secretary of state and national security adviser can be criticized on many grounds, but if there’s one thing that defined Condoleezza Rice’s history

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) Personhood USA, the group behind ballot initiatives that aim to define life as beginning at the moment of conception, has unveiled a new video, comparing its efforts to ban abortion to the civil rights movement. Fresh off the sound defeat of Mississippi’s “fetal personhood” amendment, Personhood supporters remain undeterred

Hours after Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told a Senate panel that he thought the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) should

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) penned an editorial for the Huffington Post Monday that urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create rules regulating

A new Pew Research Center poll gives us a clearer picture of where the country stands on global warming. According to the poll, the country’s stance on global

It’s called walling by the CIA. As described in the International Committee of the Red Cross report obtained by Mark Danner, this technique involves placing

The 172-pages of answers (not including the appendix) provided by Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday reveal, as one would

Former Iowa Congressman and “The Love Boat” actor Fred Grandy is no longer serving as a radio host for Washington, D.C.,-based WMAL. Grandy and his wife, Catherine Mann-Grandy (known as “Mrs.

Anyone who has seen the seminal Schoolhouse Rock video How a Bill Becomes a Law likely thinks that, when a bill is signed into law, the government can begin

With unemployment still hovering in double digits and no real relief in sight, a group of 30 Senate Democrats today is urging party leaders to extend emergency

In a surprise move first reported by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, former President Bill Clinton has secretly traveled to the North Korean capital of