(WIREUPDATE) – The dramatic flood of oil in the Gulf of Mexico looks ‘very scary’ from space, International Space Station Commander Oleg Kotov said on Tuesday. “Just 30 minutes ago we passed over the Mexican Gulf and we took a lot of pictures of this oil spot,” the Russian cosmonaut told reporters on Earth via [...]

(WIREUPDATE) — WASHINGTON, D.C. – Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, has posted online 383 previously unreleased pages from the Department of Interior regarding ongoing plans to declare millions of acres as National Monuments.  Using email and social media, he asked Montanans to review the materials and report anything of interest that they found. “Transparency in government [...]

(WIREUPDATE) From the offices of Congressman Zach Wamp: The destructive mining practice of removing and discarding entire mountain tops is very dangerous to our natural environment. I do not support this practice in Tennessee. While we depend on coal to power 60 percent of our electricity needs, coal companies have developed better ways to extract [...]