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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Hillary Clinton says lots of good stuff on climate and energy
Hillary Clinton gave her much-anticipated convention speech this evening, to a very excited crowd. Seems everyone in the room had a “Hillary” sign, and the cheers were deafening. She said a lot of good stuff about climate and energy concerns, but I couldn’t quite get all of it. But cheers for these issues making it […]
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Montana guv brings the one-liners
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer was all over the energy issue in his speech tonight, ripping on John McCain’s policies and calling for a new energy future. “At a time when American families are struggling to keep their gas tanks full, John McCain voted 25 times against renewable energy, biofuels, solar energy. He even voted against […]
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Virginia Senate candidate focuses on energy and climate challenge
As promised, Virginia Senate candidate Mark Warner devoted a portion of his keynote tonight to energy and climate concerns. “Two wars, a warming planet, an energy policy that says let’s borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don’t like us,” said Warner. “How many people look at these things and wonder what […]
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Bill Becker, head of the Presidential Climate Action Project, talks to Grist
Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, is here at the Democratic convention talking about what the next administration will need to do on climate and energy. Becker is also the Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs. He was previously […]
