by MCDC | Dec 9, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News, Video
Trump’s transition team has asked the Department of Energy to list employees and contractors who attended United Nations climate meetings, along with those who helped develop the Obama administration’s social cost of carbon metrics, used to estimate and justify...
by MCDC | Mar 23, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Issues, News
Potential Republican presidential candidates are neck-deep in the “money primary,” schlepping from one wealthy watering hole to another, kissing the proper palms, stroking the insatiable egos, and if successful, pocketing commitments and cash. The “ideas primary”...
by MCDC | Mar 22, 2015 | Citizens United, Economy, Income Inequality, Issues
Subsidies considered excessive, unwarranted, wasteful, unfair, inefficient, or bought by lobbying are often called corporate welfare.[1] The label of corporate welfare is often used to decry projects advertised as benefiting the general welfare that spend a...
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...
