Republicans aren't against environmental protections just because those laws "kill jobs." Supposedly they also damage national security.

Canada sticks its fingers in its ears, sticks out its tongue, and tells the U.S. it'll just sell its tar sands oil to China.

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Forget Solyndra: California-based NRG Energy is a much more typical — and much more successful — case study for how energy subsidies work.

Climate change denial is not just a river in Egypt, but now it’s also a river in Egypt; warming-related drought is threatening the Nile and Limpopo rivers.

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