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Stephen Colbert’s refreshing solution for fighting climate change
Stephen Colbert has a surprisingly simple suggestion for dealing with apocalyptic climate change.
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Cities to suburbs: Where’s the transit love? Suburbs to cities: Where’s the bus?
After suburban voters torpedoed a tax to fund bus service in the Seattle Metro area, transit activists grapple with the sad reality: Maybe the ‘burbs just weren’t designed for buses.
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Scott Brown urged GOP senators to kill energy efficiency bill
The New Hampshire Senate candidate lobbied to block the bipartisan bill so his Democratic opponent, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, wouldn't be able to run on it.
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Military experts are worried about climate change, and you should be too
America is coming under attack, say 16 retired generals and admirals, and the attacker is global warming.
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Enviros pump money and energy into Colorado Senate race
Democrat Mark Udall is a climate hawk. Republican Cory Gardner is a climate change denier. And their race could determine whether Dems hold onto the Senate.
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What are your climate questions for Ernest Moniz and Gina McCarthy?
The energy secretary and EPA administrator will join Grist for a live chat next week about Obama's climate initiatives. Submit your questions now!
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Frackers are flooding the atmosphere with climate-warming methane
Two new studies reveal the staggering disconnect between actual methane emissions and official EPA estimates.
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Senate Republicans torpedo a non-controversial, bipartisan energy-efficiency bill
The bill doesn't promote fossil fuels or hamstring the EPA, so GOP senators refused to let it move forward.
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The West Antarctic glaciers are breaking up with us
Latest studies show that the ice sheet's gradual disappearance is now irreversible, along with catastrophic, if slow, sea-level rise.
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John Oliver and Bill Nye show why cable news climate “debates” are so ridiculous
Warning: If you watch this, you'll never be able to watch a climate debate again without rolling your eyes.