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A new peer-reviewed study published by the National Academy of Sciences shows a link between hydrofracking wells to obtain natural gas and contamination of drinking water supplies — particularly with methane, which can even make drinking water flammable. ProPublica reports : For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire… The research was conducted by four scientists at Duke University

Christine O’Donnell lost her U.S. Senate race in Delaware by seventeen points -- but she had $924,800 still left over in her campaign account after the election

When President Barack Obama addresses the nation and a joint session of Congress to unveil steps for job creation and the economy, there’s only one thing he needs to remember: go big.

Interviews with Republican House candidates likely to win their elections next month reveal a wide array of ideas, but few specifics or substantial cuts.

During her stint in Florida this weekend, would-be GOP presidential nominee Michele Bachmann said that she would consider drilling in the Florida Everglades, so long as it doesn’t hurt the environment. But representatives for the Everglades Foundation say that such claims are not even viable, and will likely prove to be a “swing and a miss” for the Minnesota congresswoman. # “The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness.

A federal court on Tuesday ruled for the first time ever that the government cannot freeze an organization’s assets for suspected ties to terror financing

In February, as the law authorizing the Bush administration’s controversial warrantless wiretapping program was set to lapse, House Democrats brushed aside

The Minnesota Independent reports that the Al Franken campaign has just claimed its first lead of the Minnesota Senate recount, by a margin of 22 votes. The

The tripartisan Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Senate climate squad made a splash this weekend with its decision to drop cap-and-trade from its (eventual) legislative

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in conjunction with anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council, an

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, President-elect Barack Obama acted swiftly to fill three key

The state’s second largest power provider – Tri-State Generation and Transmission – has an all-of-the-above approach to energy resources, but that doesn’t mean its interest in a coal plant expansion in Kansas is meant to transform the Westminster-based company into a larger regional power wholesaler. “We serve 44 co-ops in four states over 200,000 square miles,” Tri-State spokesman Jim Van Someren said Thursday

William Kristol, founder and editor of the Weekly Standard, says that he’s been told U.S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota is reconsidering his decision not to be a Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential race

A central component of Democrats’ health care reform plans would bring more people under the umbrella of coverage, but less clear is whether more patients would find treatment.

Philip “Flip” Benham, the recently convicted stalker of an abortion provider, has made his way to Orlando. # Behman and other protesters are currently holding a weeklong protest of abortion clinics in Orlando. Clinics in the area were given advance notice and a “who-to-watch-out-for” guide from an abortion rights group called Feminist Majority.

These days, in their efforts to patch together a bipartisan coalition to pass climate legislation, Democrats have been falling over themselves to kowtow to

Remember when the McCain campaign got all bent out of shape because CNN’s big, bad Campbell Brown beat up on campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds for not being able

In Iowa, the steady stream of potential 2012 presidential candidates has already become almost commonplace.