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Critical List: McKibben's march on Washington; speeding up permits for offshore drilling
Bill McKibben invites you to come to D.C. in August and march on the White House over and over and over again. The goal is to convince the administration that siphoning Canada's tar sands through the Keystone XL pipelines is not a good idea and also to get heat stroke.
Transocean issued a report blaming BP for the Macondo spill. A Norwegian prosecutor issued a report blaming Transocean for $1.8 billion in tax evasion.
House Republicans don't care who was to blame for the Macondo spill; they just want the EPA to approve permits for offshore drilling more quickly. Bored with this spill! Let’s start on a new one! -
Me, on The Majority Report, talking EPA and Great Places
While David Roberts was at Netroots Nation, he dropped by to chat with Sam Seder on his radio show The Majority Report about the EPA. Take a listen.
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What is the dream behind the American Dream Movement?
Van Jones gave a speech at Netroots Nation on the "American Dream Movement." The idea is for the left to borrow from what the Tea Party has done well.
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Standing up for the EPA: the panel that’s sweeping the nation
David Roberts joined a Netroots Nation panel that included Miles Grant, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, and Sen. Ben Cardin. You can watch it here.
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Critical List: Rich countries renege on Copenhagen promise; solar panels get cheaper
Remember when, at Copenhagen, richer countries responsible for most carbon pollution promised to supply aid to poorer countries suffering the consequences? Yeah, that's not happening.
People want to give Tony Hayward, the ex-BP head, money to buy oil and gas firms in emerging markets, perhaps because the idea of rich people fiddling with the economies of less-wealthy nations gives them warm fuzzy nostalgic feelings of colonialism.
The debt limit fight is going to kill any chance of climate legislation, forever. -
Military spends more to air condition tents than NASA's entire budget
Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who was Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq, says that the Pentagon spends $20 billion a year just to air condition tents and temporary buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's more than NASA's entire annual budget. There's an easy fix, says Anderson: Spray tents with polyurethane foam. An existing $95 […]
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Critical List: Senate could cut energy subsidies; organic lipsticks fail to meet criteria
Energy tax breaks are on trial in the Senate, amidst a weird vogue for Republicans opposing them. What are they planning?
People outside of Washington do believe in climate change, whatever their political beliefs. They also overwhelmingly support bike lanes and expanded public transportation. Even people who vote Republican like this stuff. Congresspeople, take note.
Cheap natural gas is making it hard for money-minded people to invest in renewable energy. -
What the U.S. power industry thinks about the future of the U.S. power industry
David Roberts shares what utilities say is the future of U.S. power.
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Mass. Transit bans ad on Scott Brown’s vote to gut Clean Air Act
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ruled an ad highlighting Scott Brown's vote to gut the Clean Air Act is too controversial for riders.
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EPA bashers aren’t protecting ‘jobs,’ they’re protecting polluters
The right has produced a veritable avalanche of lies about the EPA recently. Michele Bachmann said she'd rename EPA the job-killing organization of America. Nobody so much as blinked.
