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Conservatives in Washington are working hard to turn the Solyndra solar power company bankruptcy into a broad attack on government support for green energy. Our posts following this controversy present the facts and the context that counters the scandal-mongering from the right. Read more »... more »

Does anyone think that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has a clue about, much less an interest in, protecting the environment, even as she supports more drilling off the United States coastline? Read more » ... more »

Newt Gingrich is supposed to be the intellectual leader of the conservative movement. Yet his fellow conservatives were completely uninterested in following his lead away from denying climate science and towards climate solutions. Read more »... more »

Just like a light bulb that burns intensely bright just before it goes dark for good, the Republican majority in the House is burning intensely before its light goes out and it votes to repeal energy efficiency standards for light bulbs. Read more »... more »

The Senate, having struck its compromise, has gone home. The House, controlled by delusional Republicans, has gone home. Payroll taxes are slated to rise, and unemployment insurance is set to expire before they return in January. The compromise wasn’t just between the two parties in the Senate, apparently. According to Wednesday’s Washington Post, House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell on Friday and told him they’d get the votes to pass the two-month extension deal he’d worked out with Harry Reid. But Boehner, who is turning out to be the weakest speaker since the House was first gaveled to order in 1789, couldn’t hold his troops, whose caucus meetings, by numerous accounts, increasingly resemble the pep rallies of cults that have lost all feel for how other humans think. ... more »