By Steve Cohen 10/02/09 3:00pm

Climate Regulation Has Begun in the U.S.

In the last several days, some of the attention in our nation’s capital has shifted back to the issue of climate change. Most concretely, EPA has finally taken the essential step of regulating Carbon Dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Meanwhile, over in the U.S. Senate, Senators Kerry and Boxer have introduced Read More

By Steve Kornacki 4/17/08 10:03pm

Obama's 'Watergate-Era Republican'

There is news today that a “Watergate-era Republican” has climbed aboard Barack Obama’s bandwagon. That’s probably a fair way to describe 75-year-old William D. Ruckelshaus, who hasn’t been in the news regularly for about 30 years: His highest-profile moment came in 1973 when, as a deputy U.S. Attorney General, he and his boss, Attorney General Read More