by Chris Kirk | Mar 14, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is on a mission to end subsidies for big oil companies. “Right now, $4 billion of your tax dollars — $4 billion — subsidizes the oil industry every year,” he said in New Hampshire earlier this month. “Now,...
by Chris Kirk | Mar 13, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is taking flak for the first federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique for drilling for natural gas — and it hasn’t even formally announced them yet. “These new regulations will add...
by Chris Kirk | Feb 28, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON — In a Senate hearing that was supposed to be about the Interior Department’s proposed $11.4 billion budget, senators instead bickered Tuesday over the question of whether President Barack Obama’s energy policies are responsible for skyrocketing gasoline...
by Chris Kirk | Feb 22, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — At a long-awaited ground-breaking ceremony, President Barack Obama said Wednesday the new national black history museum will be a “celebration of life.” Joining with African-American icons and other dignitaries, including former first lady...
by Chris Kirk | Feb 15, 2012 | Environment
Interior Department Budget Proposal By the numbers – $11.4 billion: Total proposed budget, an increase of 1 percent – $65 million: Funds projected to be raised from an increased offshore oil and gas inspection fee, $3 million more than what Congress...
by Chris Kirk | Feb 8, 2012 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new emission caps on oil and coal-fired power plants are the most costly regulations on utilities to date, House Republicans argued at a hearing Wednesday. “It is simply unacceptable for this administration to continue to impose...
by Chris Kirk | Feb 7, 2012 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives has never been less concerned with the environment, a leading environmental organization said Tuesday after scoring congressmen based on their voting records last year. Led by House Republicans who dismiss environmental...
by Chris Kirk | Feb 1, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON — A Republican-led House committee Wednesday criticized as “unnecessarily alarming” a report from the Environmental Protection Agency that concluded natural gas drilling contaminated groundwater in Wyoming. The EPA released a draft in December of a...
by Chris Kirk | Jan 24, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Will Barack Obama get his swag back? The president used his State of the Union address Tuesday to showcase his policies, but icons from the hip hop community tried to answer the swag question. At “#BarackTalk,” titled after a Twitter...
by Chris Kirk | Jan 24, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON — About 100 demonstrators dressed up like referees and blew whistles outside the Capitol Tuesday to “call foul” on Congress, which they said has been bought by big oil companies that spend millions on lobbying and campaign contributions....
by Chris Kirk | Jan 17, 2012 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON —IBM Chief Financial Officer Jeff Katz said Tuesday that the country is undergoing a “leap” forward in smart grid technology, but cautioned that this leap would introduce new security challenges. At a smart grid technologies conference at a Washington...
by Chris Kirk | Jan 10, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Policymakers who ignore or trivialize global climate change are pushing humanity closer to extinction, according to an organization of scientists and diplomats. Lamenting the failure of policymakers worldwide to ease nuclear tensions and curb...
