
As transportation enthusiasts wait for official Washington to hash out a brand new $500 billion transportation bill, a duel just over the Potomac may provide a glimpse of the debate to come. Read more
Free-market cheerleaders have long relied on the flowchart to push their notion that government intervention makes a hash of things. Republican flowcharts helped knock the wind out of Clinton’s proposed health care reforms in the 1990s. And so it’s no surprise that opponents of President Obama’s health care reforms are once again pulling out charts. Read more
Don’t think that the “clean coal” blitz faded in the first months of the Obama administration just because newly filed disclosure forms show an 85 percent drop-off in lobbying by the companies participating in the effort. Read more
The Bush administration may have packed its boxes, but members of its climate change policy team have unloaded theirs at addresses all around Washington. Read more
President Obama might as well have yelled “Charge!” to the cavalry of climate change lobbyists when he released his budget plan — a plan that includes $646 billion in revenue through 2019 from the industries that emit greenhouse gases. Read more

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