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Power Voters — and Obama — make their final appeal to get out the vote
Woman wearing a United Mine Workers T-shirt and a “No Coal” sticker. Photos: Kate Sheppard In the sea of 85,000 Virginians gathered at the Manassas Fairgrounds to see Barack Obama’s final campaign event Monday night, there were a good number of green “Power Vote” and “No Coal” stickers in the crowd, thanks to the efforts […]
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Organic candidate cocktails for your election-night party
Whether you’ll be toasting to triumph or drowning out defeat once the polls close, these four election-night libations will win over even the most partisan of voters. And they come Grist-tested, Grist approved*. *Approval of a candidate’s cocktail does not indicate endorsement by Grist or its employees. Just a drunken good time. Please enjoy (and […]
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Biofuel you can believe in
Flint, Michigan seeks Swedish help in turning human waste into biogas to power buses.
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Geologists predict that oil production will decline within a decade
As I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, gas prices have fallen back from the phenomenal highs of last summer. The immediate cause has been the economic crisis. When credit markets seized up, some companies that wanted to buy oil simply couldn’t get the cash. And perhaps more importantly, the economic slowdown has decreased projections for […]
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Scots give Donald Trump go-ahead to build giant golf course
The Scottish government has given Donald Trump the go-ahead to build two golf courses, a five-star hotel, and 500 luxury homes on an untouched stretch of Scotland’s coast. The development plans were originally nixed by the local council over concerns that the project will be, um, detrimental to fragile sand dunes and rare wildlife.
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New EPA rules let factory farms police themselves on water pollution
Factory farms can skip getting a pollution permit if they don’t think they’ll be mucking up nearby waterways, according to new U.S. EPA requirements. Enviros are unimpressed; notes Eric Schaeffer of the Environmental Integrity Project, “It literally puts the foxes in charge of their gigantic henhouses.”
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Green groups dropping big cash on independent expenditures for this year’s election
In the past 24 hours alone, more than $130,000 has been spent by independent groups in support of Barack Obama, and of that, $38,024 was spent by the League of Conservation Voters, accounting for the second-largest expenditure by a single independent group in favor of Obama in the final day before people head to the […]
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McCain adviser repeats myths about climate change
Just a few months ago, Steve Forbes, editor of Forbes and an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, was assuring the base that McCain would abandon his call for a cap-and-trade system to regulate carbon emissions once he assumed office. Today, he pens a piece in his own publication rife with debunked climate […]
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Educate David on California’s Prop H
One thing I wish I’d gotten to dig into further before the election is Proposition H in California. (Our own Sara Barz covered it briefly in this post.) The renewable mandates aren’t what interest me — it’s more the question of making PG&E a public utility. I’m told by a friend in San Fran that […]
