Articles by Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard was previously Grist's political reporter. She now covers energy and the environment for The Huffington Post. Follow her on Twitter.
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CAP hosts ‘green recovery’ event
The government in waiting Center for American Progress today organized a panel on “Green Recovery,” bringing together some power-players in that realm to talk about the prospects of getting energy and environmental components into both the short- and long-term vision for economic growth. Two of the players — former EPA administrator Carol Browner and Pennsylvania […]
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Obama notes climate and energy policy will be key to national security
President-elect Barack Obama this morning officially unveiled his national security team, and in his remarks cited the need for policy that addresses climate and energy concerns as coupled with national security. “The national security challenges we face are just as grave — and just as urgent — as our economic crisis,” said Obama. “We are […]
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West Virginia DEP approves permit to blast Coal River Mountain
We wrote this summer about Coal River Mountain, one of the last mountains in West Virginia’s Coal River Valley that hasn’t been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining. Massey Energy is planning to blast off a 10-square-mile area of the mountain for mining, but activists in the the area were hoping to turn into a […]
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Nov. 28 is deadline for comment on whether EPA should regulate emissions
The public has two more days to weigh in on whether the Environmental Protection Agency should regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. In July, the Bush administration was supposed to issue a plan on how the government would respond to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, which found that emissions […]
