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Feds cut program that helped poor countries adapt to climate change
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is eliminating a program that helped developing countries anticipate and deal with droughts, floods, and other realities of a changing climate. The now-defunct Center for Capacity Building, which had an annual budget of about $500,000, was reputable in the international climate community for its unique approach to the human […]
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Unilateral drilling deal is bad politics
Joe Romm seems to think Obama’s public support for drilling is smart politics, getting something for nothing. Romm is one of the smartest policy guys out there, but I think he has missed a key point on the politics here. Supporting drilling is a way of reaching out to low-information voters. But low-information voters don’t […]
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Light truck sales drop 25 percent, Toyota screws up
Green Car Congress reports: US sales of light-duty vehicles continued their decline in July, dropping to a total 1.136 million units, a 13.2% reduction in volume compared to July 2007, according to Autodata … The year-on-year decrease came, in general, out of the light-duty truck segment. Sales of cars in July 2008 slightly increased 0.3% […]
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IOC and multi-nationals complicit in subjecting world class athletes to world class pollution
You can’t criticize awarding the Olympic Games to China just because their rapacious coal-building policy has now made them the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. By that standard, America should never have been awarded the games. But awarding the games to a city that is one of the most polluted in the world […]
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Obama softens opposition to offshore drilling, common insecticides causing health problems, and more
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EPA refuses to lower requirement for ethanol in fuel supply
The U.S. EPA gave a big, husky hug to corn ethanol Thursday, declining a request from Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to reduce the amount of ethanol required to be blended into the U.S. fuel supply. The federal Renewable Fuel Standard mandates that 9 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol be poured into U.S. gas tanks […]
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Gingrich says Republicans will shut down gov’t if they can’t get a vote on drilling
One might recall that Newt Gingrich resigned his seat in Congress in 1998. But he was back on the Hill yesterday to join the House GOP sit-in, and now he’s threatening that the Republicans will shut down government if they don’t get a separate vote on offshore drilling. Perhaps he hasn’t gotten the message yet […]
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First recorded solar billionaire in China, U.S. billionaires persue wind
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. —– Hunter Lovins is one of the country’s premier prophets of the prosperity we can achieve if we move quickly to establish a post-carbon economy. Vast new markets and investment opportunities are opening worldwide for clean technologies. “Those […]
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Me, on the radio in Oregon
Hear Bruce Silverman interview me on Portland’s KBOO FM on the opportunities for waste energy recovery — specifically in the wood products, pulp, and paper industries in the state. (Special Bonus: plug for Grist at 18:40 or so!)
