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Embracing Clean Energy in the Northwest and Beyond
This past weekend we announced that the Washington State Senate approved a landmark agreement between the Sierra Club, Governor Chris Gregoire and TransAlta to phase out the state’s massive 1,600-megawatt coal plant between 2020 and 2025. With growing pressure from the public (including environmental groups, clean energy advocates, health professionals, students and the faith community) […]
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Mideast unrest isn’t causing gas price surge, a bill the Senate never voted on is!
A senior US senator on Thursday ruled out violent unrest across the Middle East as a main cause of surging oil and gasoline prices, placing the blame instead on plans to curb greenhouse gases. “A lot of people are saying that the gas prices that are going up are a result, partially, of what’s happening […]
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Inhofe, Horner, McIntyre and Watts fabricate another “despicable smear” against Michael
Let’s see if any of the serial disinformers have the minimal human decency to put up a full retraction of their falsehoods. I have Mann’s response at the end. Last month we saw the umpteenth exhaustive investigation of the stolen emails that ended up vindicating the science and the scientists, this time by NOAA’s IG. […]
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In defense of progress: pushing back the ideologues
Progress is a slog. It always is: occasionally pushed forward by a burst of energy; often knocked backward by opposition. In politics, it’s an evolutionary process that depends on gradual re-alignment and re-consideration of views. Consider pollution. At the beginning of the 20th century, the new factories driving the Industrial Revolution emitted a constant stream […]
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How to advance climate change & clean energy action at Rio+20 Earth Summit
The world’s leaders will be meeting June 4-6, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Rio+20 Earth Summit. This Summit is an important opportunity to advance concrete action on global warming. Countries, companies, state and local governments, and civil society groups should be expected to come to Rio prepared to strengthen the implementation of their […]
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How much could you save by riding transit instead of driving?
The ability to go somewhere without gassing up: priceless.Photo: JasonSo the Middle East continues to melt down, and gas prices are going up, again. This time, the jump is the second-biggest in the history of the gasoline market — 33 cents per gallon in just two weeks. According to the American Public Transportation Association, an […]
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Anthony Watts urges WattsUpWithThat readers to disrupt Forbes blog
Yes, discredited former TV weatherman Anthony Watts can’t stomach even a couple of scientists posting reasonable comments about an error-riddled piece from Heartland on a blog already over-run by the pro-pollution crowd. He must marshall his readership to “shout them down in the comments section.” Watts has, perhaps more than any other leading anti-science blogger, […]
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Could US-Mexico agreement lead to cleaner and more efficient vehicles in Mexico?
This post was written by Rich Kassel. According to Forbes and other reports, U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón have reached an agreement on resolving the two nations’ long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking. The two presidents met in Washington today, and supposedly agreed to a phased-in plan that would authorize both Mexican […]
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Tim DeChristopher Should be Free. Arrest the Real Criminals.
“I’ll join you.” That’s what the large crowd of supporters shouted back after hearing the announcement of Tim DeChristopher’s guilty verdict yesterday. After a week long trial accompanied by a week-long solidarity rally, Tim DeChristopher, a modern American hero, was found guilty of two felonies for entering winning bids for the rights to thousands of […]
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Game changer in the fight against global warming
In 2008 a young environmental activist named Tim DeChristopher bid on 13 parcels of land quietly put up for auction by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the waning days of the Bush Administration. This land was part of a larger offering by the BLM of federal public land in an attempt […]
