by MCDC | Jan 27, 2015 | Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Global Warming, Issues, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal
by MCDC | Oct 27, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal
It wasn’t long ago that coal executives were openly discussing their dream of Republicans seizing the White House and making Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe — who believes climate change is a “hoax” concocted by greedy scientists — the head of the EPA. Coal companies...
by MCDC | Jul 18, 2013 | Coal, Environment, Fracking, Global Warming, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal, News
@mikememoli WASHINGTON – The Senate voted to confirm Gina McCarthy as the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, ending what had been the longest delay for any of President Obama’s second-term Cabinet picks. The 59-40 vote was the second such...
by MCDC | May 7, 2013 | Energy, Environment, Fracking, Global Warming, Issues, News, Virginia Election 2013
UPDATE: Cuccinelli announces his support for hydro-fracking for natural gas in the protected George Washington National Forest. In the first quarter of 2013, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) raised about $2.4 million for his gubernatorial campaign. Of...
by MCDC | Apr 25, 2013 | Energy, Environment, Fracking, Global Warming, Issues, Virginia Election 2013
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli is working with coal companies and State Policy Network groups backed by Koch Industries to rollback VA’s voluntary clean energy program. The same Dominion that gave him $10,000 for his run for governor, on top of almost...
by MCDC | Mar 21, 2013 | Environment, Fracking, Issues, News
Mary Ann Sumner is Town Supervisor for the Town of Dryden (population 14,500) in upstate New York. She loves Dryden, and she takes her job very seriously. That’s why she is in New York State Supreme Court today, fighting a lawsuit brought against her and Dryden...
