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If you're under 25, you should be pissed about climate change
"Generation Hot" is the 2 billion young people who will be stuck dealing with global warming for their entire lives, writes Mark Hertsgaard in his book "Hot."
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Live chat with author Mark Hertsgaard on climate change and ‘Generation Hot’
Join us Jan. 25 at 3 p.m. Eastern for a chat with renowned journalist Mark Hertsgaard about his book, "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth."
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Meet the Climate Fockers
Here’a repost from my Climateprogress.org blog today: A business colleague and friend recently had a nice conversation with his brother, a doctor visiting from the South. His brother doesn’t think climate change is a problem. It went something like this: Brother: “I’ve been reading some interesting articles about climate change that don’t….” Colleague: “Shut […]
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Coal Victories and Challenges
Every week it seems as if there’s coal-related news to celebrate and to challenge us. We celebrated last week’s decision from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Lisa Jackson to veto the water permit for the massive Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal coal mining site in West Virginia. Administrator Jackson’s brave step stopped a mountaintop […]
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New report quantifies just how much a car commute crushes your soul
The Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University has released its annual Urban Mobility Report, which includes data on how much time, money, and mental health urban-area car commuters lose to congestion every year. Spoiler alert: Car commuting is expensive, crazy-making, and bad for the environment.
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It takes more than 70 countries to equal the U.S. on emissions
An image from the Sightline Institute shows how the U.S. measures up to other countries on emissions -- or, more accurately, how small state-sized chunks of the U.S. measure up.
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'Road trains' can improve fuel efficiency — and driver downtime — by turning cars into conga lines
It's 2011, where's your self-driving car? With "road train" technology, now in development by Volvo, it could be the car you already own. Road trains, or platoons, create semi-autonomous conga lines of cars following one leader vehicle with a professional driver.
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Federal solar tax credits rule out half of Americans
The difference between democratizing clean energy policies and the U.S. system can be illustrated with a look at the federal solar tax credit.
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Sen. Scott Brown: Stand up for clean air, not polluters
A lot of people in Massachusetts suffer from asthma, the disease that makes it hard to breathe, sends kids gasping for breath to the emergency room and can saddle families with huge medical bills. In fact, estimates from the American Lung Association are that over 130,000 kids and nearly 500,000 adults in Massachusetts suffer from asthma.* One […]
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What is a 'normal' climate? Definitions are changing [VIDEO]
Climate Central's Heidi Cullen explains how "normals" for our climate during the past decade will very likely change soon.