Topic: Natural Resources Defense Council

No One to Pray With

I look at McCain's folks around me; Last line: " So far, though, to the surprise of McClay and others, there's been not a peep from Capitol Hill. Allen Hersh kowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council and director ...

Jim Cooper's hot seat

Jim Cooper's hot seat The long, hot summer has only just begun for members of Congress. So if health care reform collapses, Cooper gets a lot of the blame. Compared with 1993-94, when President Clinton tried to reform health care, there's "much ...

U.S. DOE Heats Up New Energy Standards for Home Furnaces

Washington, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted the Obama Administration's request to reconsider weak efficiency standards of residential furnaces, one of the home's biggest users of energy. The case was brought to the U.S. DOE by several states, ...
Obama's freeze on Bush rule changes may help wolves and conservationists, hurt minersGray wolves might benefit and sellers of investment products might not under President Barack Obama's first official act the freezing of all proposed federal rules changes left unfinished by George ...

Capital Briefs

* RNC TO CHALLENGE MCCAIN-FEINGOLD: Considered the most wide-ranging attack on post-Watergate restrictions on fund-raising by political parties and on the more recent restrictions oh use of "soft money" contained in the McCain-Feingold legislation, the RNC suit, Duncan said, is a move ...
Groundbreaking Energy Deal in Congress to Push Auto Industry on Fuel-EfficiencyThe groundbreaking deal in Congress to raise mile-per-gallon standards will compel the auto industry to churn out more fuel-efficient vehicles on a faster timeline than the companies wanted, though with flexibility to ...