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This man is on the hunt for California’s next climate leaders
Meet Nick Josefowitz. Turns out Tom Steyer isn't the only ambitious fundraiser working to get climate hawks elected.
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The Cowboys and Indians pipeline protest was a throwback — in more ways than one
The carefully designed anti-Keystone demonstration in D.C. put a dramatic face on the movement.
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Top coal lobbyist compares coal plants to 90s car phones, refuses to say if coal contributes to climate change
The US coal industry has been struggling with its PR efforts in the face of some tough conditions: polls show that coal is Americans’ “least favored” energy source, scientists insist that most fossil fuels – especially coal – must stay underground, and broad majorities of Americans support carbon pollution limits on coal fired power plants. […]
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Supreme Court: One State’s Coal Pollution Not Allowed to Make Another State’s Families Sick
In a huge victory for public health, today the Supreme Court issued its opinion in a case considering the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution rule, which is designed to protect Americans from dangerous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. In a 6-2 decision, the court delivered a resounding victory for clean air and public health, affirming […]
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Urban farms won’t feed us, but they just might teach us
It's clear that the craze for the urban farm is no answer to feeding our teeming cities. Its value lies instead in how it can change us.
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One frack mind: How a determined New Yorker won the green Nobel
Helen Slottje found a legal strategy for upstate New York towns to block fracking through zoning. Now she's ready to take it national.
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How solar energy cuts electric grid costs
With solar power, “we can avoid that $100 million investment in transmission lines, distribution lines, in capital infrastructure…” That was Vice President of Environmental Affairs Michael Deering of the Long Island Power Authority in a remarkable podcast interview, explaining how local solar energy can help offset expensive grid upgrades for bringing in remote power generation, […]
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Fighting city hall is easier than running it, Richmond’s green reformers find
The progressive alliance that took over local government in Richmond, Calif., has slashed the crime rate and raised taxes on Chevron. But every win has been a struggle.
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The New “CIA”
As I write this, a new CIA, the Cowboy and Indian Alliance, is completing six days of a tipi encampment on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Throughout the past week Indigenous people from Canada, Idaho, South Dakota, Minnesota, Oklahoma and elsewhere have joined with ranchers and farmers from Nebraska to dramatize and bring to […]
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Cowboys and Indians stage a feisty Keystone XL protest
An alliance of Native Americans, ranchers, and farmers stormed the National Mall -- not your usual anti-pipeline rally.
