If you want to yell at me, that's fine, but you'd better tell me what you would do. And if you tell me that you'd put all 11 million people on a bus, I'm not going to listen to you anymore." -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), on his efforts to...
The American Wind Energy Association said on Wednesday that the industry added installations totaling 13,124 megawatts in new capacity in 2012, Bloomberg reported. That’s 42% of all new power supply added in the U.S., more than from natural gas. Much of the impetus for the surge in new wind installations...
Two-thirds of Americans prefer a carbon tax to spending reductions to address the country’s budgetary problems, according to a Mellman Group poll released Wednesday.
From AP, “Labor Department reports 157,000 jobs added in January, unemployment rate ticks up to 7.9%.” … After department’s annual revisions, hiring was stronger over the past two years than previously thought. Perhaps the biggest news from the report: The November and December jobs numbers were revised upward -- to...
Following up on a post last week, The Fix reports that, “A Republican-backed plan to change the way certain states allocate electoral votes has fizzled as quickly as it sprung onto the national consciousness. The slate of upcoming 2014 governor’s races is a major reason. … the Republican governors in...
Great Infographic from Measure of America