Community activists have urged more protections as oil drilling nears more dense population areas in western states, states like North Dakota have threatened to sue about some new rules.
Trump said something “has got to be done to break it up,” referring to the “very well-dressed” protesters at Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the country.
Earlier this week, representatives of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) scrambled to do damage control following his comments Monday to ABC News advocating cuts to Big Oil subsidies.
Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar pressed the Obama administration last week to grant the “strongest possible protections” to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in a letter signed by 25 senators. The letter suggests that oil drilling should not occur…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar will meet with Minnesota wildlife officials on Friday to look at what impact the BP oil spill will have on Minnesota’s migratory bird populations. Many of the state’s birds, including ducks, geese and Minnesota’s…
DFL-endorsed congressional candidate Jim Meffert called on Rep. Erik Paulsen to denounce Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, for apologizing to BP for the Obama administration-BP agreement to create a $20 billion victims’ escrow fund in the wake of the gulf oil…
Rep. Michele Bachmann on Wednesday appeared to back off her criticisms of the Obama administration’s plans to have BP pay for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as other Republicans weighed in the plan: Rep. Joe Barton…
The national chapter of the Sierra Club has launched an ad attacking Rep. Michele Bachmann for what the group says are close ties to the oil industry. The ads are in their second week of a two-week run on…
“Drill, baby, drill,” the oft-heard chant of the Republican faithful during the party’s national convention, may become the GOP’s most unfortunate slogan ever as the federal bureau charged with managing and…
Claiming that a certain state or country is “the Saudi Arabia of” wind, solar, biomass or some other form of renewable energy is so three months ago.
Back in March, a Minnesota Monitor survey found the…
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