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Three solar power plants that make up the 53.5 megawatt solar project overseen by SunEdison and Xcel Energy near Carlsbad were activated Thursday. The site will eventually total five solar plants and generate enough renewable energy to offset the carbon emissions of 288,000 cars after twenty years of production.

Finger pointing and agitation is quick on the heels of disappointment following a collapse in negotiations between Pennsylvania House and Senate leaders over a

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The Senate has rejected a Republican amendment that would have blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions

The Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition, part of a network of groups created by religious right icon Ralph Reed , is hosting a strategy session on the ballot measure to put a ban on marriage for same-sex couples in the Minnesota Constitution . Former gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer will emcee the October event, and Sen

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Colorado is used to boom and bust cycles, and it wasn’t hard to see this one coming.

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Amid reports of seepage near the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen wrote to BP yesterday calling for a detailed

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the minority and majority leaders in the Senate Judiciary Committee, have opened the hearings for

It’s tax day, meaning there will be no end to the rhetorical grandstanding from conservative lawmakers about how the Democrats’ tax-and-spend policies are

This week, the Third Wave Foundation (TWF), an activist organization that works with young women and transgender youth, released a report (PDF) that

There’s a big international conference in London beginning next Thursday to harmonize allied civilian efforts in Afghanistan. One thing to expect out of it: new

P.J. Crowley, the State Department’s assistant secretary for public affairs, said in today’s press briefing that he wouldn’t speak to any specific allegation in

The insurance giant AIG is back with its hands out, asking for yet another government bailout, the New York Times reports. At TPM, Josh Marshall raises an

The real winners of the House climate change compromise would be the same industries who are largely the source of the nation’s carbon emissions.

The next secretary of state is sure to face difficult foreign policy decisions. Here are four to watch for during Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s confirmation hearing.

Amount of time it took the McCain campaign to use its supposedly apolitical stunt for political gain: Zero seconds. This is from the McCain campaign

For years, at the Pentagon press podium, Lawrence di Rita helped Donald Rumsfeld lie to the American people. Now, I see via Abu Muqawama that he’s taken to the

I’m a little surprised to read exposes of how Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has launched a Tea Party group, Liberty Central.

The release of the Going Rogue cover reveals two things. First: Sarah Palin’s celebrity and magnetic attraction for the media are in no danger of ending.

That statistic comes to you from Servicemembers United, which opposes Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and seeks its repeal. It’s lower than in previous years: There

News came from both sides of the culture war over marijuana today, as the March arrest by DEA agents of a Saginaw, Mich., doctor who prescribed medical