A friend writes: You're more politically plugged in than I am, do you support this ? Arlington County Board is thinking about extending ...

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Today's Washington Post takes a look at some polluter-funded front groups that have recently sprung up to fight clean energy & clim...

What's with the New York Times' environmental reporter approvingly posting links to a shadowy global warming denial group? Andrew Re...

Sorry for the lack of posts this week, I've been out of town on business. The fun resumes tomorrow with a great story about John Oliver....

The Beltway conventional wisdom is wrong. I know, shocking, right? From Greg Sargent at The Plumline : I’ve obtained a new poll done for the...

The lowlight of today's Virginia gubernatorial debate -- Creigh Deeds attacking President Obama's clean energy plan: Clearly, Creigh...

Life in coal country is hard. Jobs aren't easy to come by. People have been told for generations now that the only way they'll get b...

I was out at National Wildlife Federation office in Reston on Monday and heard one of the early signs of fall -- big, fat acorns falling off...

I ran the Arlington 9/11 5K a couple of weekends ago. Posted my worst time ever, but given the late summer heat, satisfied to have managed t...

Global warming continues to revolutionize the Arctic , allowing two German ships to travel from South Korea along Russia's coast to Sibe...

Anyone else find this terrifying? It's from the Nature Conservancy's new Climate Wizard . The map shows the change in annual tempera...

So Massey coal company CEO Don Blankenship blew more than a million of his own dollars on a rally in West Virginia. How'd it turn out? F...

Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen many awesome videos from polluter-funded Astroturf groups. But this may be the most awesomest of all. Fir...

It might have looked something like this: An Arlington Rapid Transit (ART) bus plowed through a low brick wall last night in front of The Gr...

A friend just alerted me to the website PlantsNeedCO2.org, which is running ads on NYTimes.com. From the site's "about us" pag...

The Hill has a full report on the new polluter fraud hotline .

Over at ItsGettingHotInHere.org, Scott Parkin points out : Verizon Wireless sees nothing wrong with participating in overtly anti-environmen...

Via West Virginia Blue , CREDO Action has gotten a response from Verizon on its sponsorship of a pro-polluter rally : Before we launched our...

A group of businesses in West Virginia is sponsoring an event on Monday called the Friends of America Rally . It's not exactly clear why...