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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Greenpeace taps 33-year-old grassroots organizer as its new leader
Greenpeace has picked a young, grassroots organizer to take up the helm of one of the country’s largest environmental organizations. A spokesman for the group confirmed on Monday evening that the board has selected Philip Radford as its new executive director, effective April 27. Radford, 33, currently serves as the group’s grassroots director. He will […]
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Fellow Washington Post columnist challenges George Will’s climate denial
Another Washington Post staffer has joined the pile-on against columnist George Will’s climate-change denial. Fellow columnist Eugene Robinson lambasted Will on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Wednesday night, and also called out the editors who let him get away with it. “What George Will did was cherry-pick a sentence in a report, you know, […]
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Expect sparks as the Senate takes up energy legislation
If debate in the Senate last week over some relatively non-controversial energy measures was any indication of things to come, we can expect fireworks over energy policy when legislators return from their two-week April recess. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee took up the first four components of its pending energy package last week, […]
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Is the Obama administration backing away from LNG terminals?
Will the Obama administration back away from building liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals along the coasts of the U.S.? Obama’s appointee at the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission suggests that it will. Though George W. Bush talked a lot about weaning the U.S. off foreign oil, he wanted a massive increase in imports […]
