When you think about last year’s deadly hurricane season, you also must think about the environment. They do go hand in hand and we hear warnings all the time that our Earth is passing the point of no return. Global warming is a serious issue that requires serious actions. So how does Senate address this […]
When Democrats successfully got the ANWR provision stripped from the defense budget on Wednesday, Republicans decided to punish the poor people in the country by hurting their federal assistance with rising heating prices. This is brought up by a newpress release issued by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorites, a non-partisan research group: WASHINGTON, […]
In some good news, well at least for the time being, the House has done away with the ANWR drilling tonight. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives abandoned, at least temporarily, a drive to open Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling after concluding on Wednesday the initiative was threatening […]
The Senate Energy Committee has approved the ANWR bill to open up oil drilling in the northern parts of Alaska. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Energy Committee voted on Wednesday to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling as part of a broad budget bill to fund the federal government. Tapping the […]