Posts by Aaron Wiener

As the U.S. Senate takes up debate on climate legislation, environmental groups are slamming a biofuels provision.

Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that President Obama’s emissions reduction scheme would cost American families more than $3,000 a year. “It’s just wrong,” said Reilly in reference to Boehner’s use of his study. But that didn’t stop Rep. Michele Bachmann from hopping on board the Boehner train.