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Most Tea Partiers think warming is “just not happening”
When it comes to climate science, there is deep division between the Tea Party fringe and the rest of the Republican Party.
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More nukes: James Hansen leads call for “safer nuclear” power to save climate
James Hansen and three other prominent climate scientists call for the deployment of safe nuclear energy -- and they want support from enviros.
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Leaked IPCC report: Humans are adapting — but hunger, homelessness, and violence lie ahead
Findings from a leaked copy of the IPCC's next report aren't pretty, but they contain some glimmers of hope.
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Happy hour: Obama orders climate planning just in time for the weekend
The White House gives the country a much-needed nudge toward developing better methods for dealing with the effects of climate change in our communities.
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Big Coal: Government regulation sucks, but don’t you dare touch our government subsidies
This week's coal-state protests in Washington illustrated the hypocrisy of a special interest that privatizes profits and spreads costs all over the place.
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Al Gore: World is on brink of “carbon bubble”
Gore and partner David Blood call on companies to "do their fiduciary duty" and identify carbon risks in their portfolios.
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Green activists navigate life in the post-privacy era
Technology forces organizers to be cagier and savvier. They can also make transparency their friend.
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Bill would boost renewables to 25 percent by 2025, has no chance in hell of passing
Senators (and cousins!) Mark and Tom Udall have introduced a bill that would set a national renewable electricity standard. It's a good idea, sure to die in a bad Congress.
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Bangladesh’s biggest power plant will harm world’s biggest mangrove forest
Bangladesh is vulnerable to floods and cyclones, which makes its plans for a new coal-fired power plant next to a mangrove forest all the more troubling.
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Congress backtracking on law that aimed to reduce flood risks
America has been promoting the construction of homes in floodplains since the 1960s. And it plans to do so for another four years under a new bill.
