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Could Waxman’s new bill offer fresh hope for a carbon tax?
Waxman and several other Democratic lawmakers are grinding out bills that would make polluters pay for their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Another George Bush runs for office in Texas, talks up oil and gas drilling
George Prescott Bush, son of Jeb Bush, has kicked off a campaign to run for Texas land commissioner next year. Drill, baby Bush, drill!
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Could melting glaciers slow down climate change?
As glaciers and ice sheets melt, they release plankton food, a new study finds -- and that could help slow the pace of global warming.
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Great green north: Climate change curtails Canadian winters
NASA scientists say Canadian winters are warming up -- a change that's "like Winnipeg, Manitoba, moving to Minneapolis-Saint Paul in only 30 years."
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Bahamas will soon be invaded by oil drills
The Bahamian government will allow exploratory oil drilling, triggering worries about the tourism and fishing industries.
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Is ‘Twilight’ influencing our environmental imagination?
Wonder what’s shaping our warped relationship with the natural world? Look no further than popular literature, says ecocritic George Handley.
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Big military guy more scared of climate change than enemy guns
Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear says global warming “is probably the most likely thing ... that will cripple the security environment."
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N.Y. Times and Thomas Friedman call for killing Keystone
The New York Times editorial board and Times columnist Thomas Friedman have both come out swinging against the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Forests growing in thawed-out Arctic
Thanks to climate change, millions of square miles of new trees and shrubs are turning the far north green, say researchers. And that's not good.
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Activism and policy are not the same thing
Keystone scolds seem to think that what activists are engaged in is a policy proposal. That's stupid.
