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In recent months, the Scott administration has cut $305 million from environmental land-buying projects in the state budget , all but ignored pleas to halt the construction of a Georgia-Pacific pipeline to funnel additional effluent into the St. Johns River and attempted to halt or delay the implementation of a set of criteria to govern water pollution in the state.The administration also made cuts to the state’s five water management districts, and sent out a memo asking them to “reexamine” how they do business

Lawmakers in Nebraska on Tuesday came one step closer to passing a controversial piece of legislation which activists say is not based in sound science and is

Two days after Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) reassured Copenhagen negotiators that the United States was taking action on climate change, Sen. John Kerry

Christopher Hitchens died yesterday of cancer. He was a learned and caustic cultural critic who wrote for the popular press and who was at his best when eviscerating the hypocrisy and pretense of people in power. He famously hated organized religion.

That’s the question that Carl Weimer -- executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a nonprofit group that advocates for fuel transportation safety --

It’s the Persian New Year, Nowruz, and President Obama recorded a video message to the Iranian people, intended to indicate respect for their cultural heritage.

DFL Senator-apparent Al Franken today asked Minnesota’s governor and secretary of state to certify his election victory so that he can provisionally join the

Some nice folks on Twitter have informed me of the actual culprits behind the wave of birther calls to Glenn Beck’s radio show: a coordinated campaign dubbed

LONDONDERRY, N.H. -- The Obama campaign has been tamping down post-debate exuberance all day today, and I just heard the candidate urge 4,000 supporters in New

A new Bloomberg News poll indicates that nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe that legislators should reach a compromise on the federal budget in order to avert a

All the bad news for American workers, all in one place.

Carrie Budoff Brown checks in on something I noticed in February—despite every indication that there would be a health care fight this year, Republicans

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported 350,000 people so far this year, more than half of whom had criminal convictions, the Sacramento Bee

As the Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry has walked both sides of the immigration line, at one point implementing a Texas-style Dream Act that some say was the model for the national act. On the other hand, he’s authorized local police to inquire about the immigration status of anyone they come in contact with.

Following up on ABC’s report that U.S. intelligence knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan tried to contact al-Qaeda facilitators online, The New

One of Rep. Allen West’s 2012 Democratic challengers, Patrick Murphy, recently sent out an email to his supporters criticizing West for his consistently aggressive rhetoric.

The world has yet to catch-up with Blackwater’s business model. A disconcerting yet surprisingly entertaining Mother Jones piece takes a look at one part of

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday approved an energy bill designed to straddle the partisan chasm between Democrats intent on tackling

New Mexico’s oil and gas utilities have filed petitions with the state’s Environmental Impact Board, seeking to overturn rules establishing a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The utilities argue that the new rules are prohibitively expensive, the costs will be passed onto consumers, and New Mexico’s emissions barely factor into climate change worldwide

It’s still just the embryonic Barack Obama administration, of course, but the light-speed downfall of Bill Richardson, Obama’s nominee for Commerce Dept.