Kudos to Republican Senators on the Senate Environment and Public Works committee for trying to get to the bottom of the Obama Administration’s international climate pledge. In a letter to the President released just after yesterday’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the Road

Earlier this week, we marked the 239th of the founding of our great nation. It was great to see people throughout the U.S. celebrating our freedom and independence at parades, concerts, picnicking with family and friends, and watching firework displays. July 4th wasn't the only important anniversary

China yesterday submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, or INDC, to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The INDC sketches China’s post-2020 commitment that is expected to be part of a new international climate change pact to be adopted in Paris later this year. Here’s

The Supreme Court today began to rein in EPA's regulatory overreach by ruling that EPA must take into consideration costs when it implements rules. Here are five must read lines from Justice Scalia’s 5-4 majority opinion in Michigan vs. EPA: 1.“EPA refused to consider whether the costs of its

There is a new piece of analysis in the Reports section of our web page that examines the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) recent assessment of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan. We took a look at the economic losses EIA projects from implementing the Clean Power

The EPA is expected to finalize its “Clean Power Plan”—sweeping new regulations that aim to transform the U.S. electricity system—sometime in the next 90 days. When it does, all eyes will quickly turn their attention away from Washington, DC and toward state capitals, as states scramble to come to

Let’s face it: Breakthroughs aren’t what they used to be, especially when it comes to climate change negotiations. Take today’s G7 Leaders’ Declaration. Hailed as adding needed momentum to the UN-sponsored talks set to conclude a new international climate change agreement in Paris later this year

Today a three judge panel of the D.C. Circuit held that it would not preemptively stop EPA's proposed "Clean Power Plan" before it is finalized by the EPA. But don't be fooled by those who will claim victory on this judicial decision: today's decision did not rubberstamp the legality of EPA's