Sen. Bond

WASHINGTON — It’s barely news any more when Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., aims a broadside at anti-global warming legislation given his adopted role as one of Congress’s most persistent critics.

Nor is there much new in the deepening regional rivalry over climate change legislation…

A political activist group called Operation Free Veterans for American Power makes a local stop this evening. The group, which is touring the country calling on political leaders to pass energy legislation that cuts carbon pollution and supports “clean” energy…

Dick Gephardt

WASHINGTON — Dick Gephardt receives a lot of money these days for the advice that the people of his St. Louis congressional district got free for 28 years.

His Gephardt Group lobbying firm is raking in millions, he’s on the board of Ford Motor Co., among other…

Bond today with petitions

WASHINGTON – Those piles of yellow notices dumped on Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond’s desk today weren’t parking tickets, althought yellow is the color of violations dispensed on Capitol Hill.

They were 30,000 petitions gathered by the Missouri Association of Electric Cooperatives urging Bond, R-Mo., to oppose present versions of cap-and-trade…

WASHINGTON — Midwest farmers argue that the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t know beans about farming.

That’s essentially what the St. Louis-based American Soybean Association contends in an offensive opened this week aimed at persuading the EPA to back off proposed new rules that…

Rep. Ike Skelton

WASHINGTON — Perhaps no Missourian in Washington wields more clout than Rep. Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

Skelton, of Lexington, is a distinctly moderate Democrat seldom mistaken for an environmentalist. In battles over the Missouri River that flows…

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer

WASHINGTON — Missouri Republicans are in the thick of the Washington fight to defeat global warming legislation, and Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer opened up a new front this afternoon with legislation to strip funding from the UN group overseeing climate research.

Along…

Suburban St. Louis County Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin is taking heat for his speech Tuesday on the House floor on climate change.

Rep. John Shimkus

WASHINGTON — In the first day of what will be House Republicans last chance to fight a controversial climate change bill before it hits the floor, Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, came out swinging.

The Waxman-Markey energy bill, which would…

UPDATED  WASHINGTON — It looks that way, and environmentalists are worried after seeing today what White House Office of Management and Budget analysts are writing internally about the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposals.

Some of the OMB remarks that can be found at Regulations.gov sound a…