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74% of GOP Senators Doubt Human Causes of Global Warming

74% of GOP Senators Doubt Human Causes of Global Warming

by Timothy B. Hurst on June 9th, 2008

The good news? The number of Senate skeptics is down from 77% in 2006 Do you want to know why Republican Senators voted last week to filibuster the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act? Put plainly – they just don’t buy it. Or, in the words of one Republic Senator: “This global-warming debate is a farce.” Think Progress has [...]

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Posted in Climate Change, Politics 11 Comments

DOE Cancels Shipments to Strategic Petroleum Reserve

by Timothy B. Hurst on May 16th, 2008

Colorado Senator is lone dissenter in 97-1 vote I’m really thankful that Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) is not running for another term. Earlier this week, the Senate voted 97-1 to halt shipments to the strategic petroleum reserve, a move that precipitated today’s announcement by the Department of Energy that they would cancel shipments beginning in July. [...]

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