We hope you don't come to this blog for stock tips but it doesn't take John Bogle to know that the debt ceiling impasse and the budget furor do not bode well for renewable energy stocks.  Citing the debt crises and oversupply, here is how one report put it:  "One of the biggest losers on the day was the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio (PBW) which slumped by 1.4% to open up the week."  So where else is the national obsession on the nation's debt going to take a bite out of responses to climate change.  We tracked down a few subjects. Carbon Dioxide Regulation...

We thought last January, when the Supreme Court denied a writ of mandamus, that the long saga of Ned Comer through the courts had finally come to an end.  We were wrong.  At the end of May, the case, Comer, et al. v. Murphy's Oil USA, et al. (attached), was refiled in the Southern District of Mississippi.  Although predating the Supreme Court's June decision in American Electric Power v. Connecticut, one could be excused for concluding that it was filed afterward as it relegates federal common law to a sentence and instead is all about state law causes of action. But before we ...