"The Republican Party today consists of people who are conservative, religious, white and predominantly male. "If those are the only people who participate and you don't have a lot of other very conservative candidates it is conceivable Cheney could win".

The Obama administration on Tuesday revoked a rule enacted toward the end of the Bush administration that it said undermined protections under the Endangered Species Act.

The party swap pushes Democrats closer to a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.

Dick Cheney has asked for secret US documents to be released showing that harsh CIA interrogation techniques such as waterboarding produced valuable intelligence..Intelligence Dick?...A quick buck for you and Halliburton?...To hell with the peasants?

Royal Dutch Shell still plans to start exploration drilling next year in Alaska's potentially oil-rich Chukchi Sea in spite of a new legal setback, a company manager in Alaska said

Sign this petition today to tell the board members of MACA (virtually all of them big chemical executives) that we don't appreciate their telling Michelle Obama (or any of us) to use pesticides in our gardens.

Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) have introduced draft global warming legislation that would cap America's global warming pollution, liberate us from imported oil, and put millions of Americans to work unleashing our clean energy.

Every week in the UK two women die at the hands of a current or former partner. Over the course of a lifetime one in four women experience some sort of domestic abuse.

I am writing to express my sincere appreciation for the example you are setting for the American people. Through your new victory garden, not only will visiting dignitaries taste fresh, healthy products that are made in the U.S.A., but families and young

Some of you may have seen the White House launch a new feature yesterday on their site called "Open for Questions." Take a minute to log on to the Open for Questions site, and give some love to the green jobs and energy questions?