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Wrapping up Climate Week, G20 Outcome & on to Bangkok
Well “climate week” has just wrapped up with the conclusion of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. This week was an important one to build international and US momentum for addressing global warming pollution (as I discussed here). As I discussed here and my colleague discussed here, some positive steps emerged this week on the […]
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Is the global oil tank half-full, is it half-empty … or are we running on fumes?
Cross-posted from Post Carbon Institute. In his article in the New York Times Sept. 24, “Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries,” staff reporter Jad Mouawad cites oil discoveries totaling 10 billion barrels for the first half of 2009. The Tiber field in the Gulf of Mexico alone accounts for four to six […]
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No, Copenhagen is not dead. Quite the reverse — prospects for a global deal have never been be
The usually savvy Mother Jones reporter, David Corn, has published a flawed analysis, “Is Copenhagen dead” (original here, repost here). The media has a herd mentality when it comes to reporting on all things presidential — either you’re up or you’re down. Indeed, the media likes to build up politicians and then tear them down. So it is with […]
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Time magazine names me one of the ‘Heroes of the Environment 2009’
I have to admit — sometimes Joe Romm ruins my mornings. As the author of Climate Progress, one of the most influential global-warming blogs on the Internet, few debates on energy or the environment get past his ravenous attention, and he takes particular pleasure in targeting mainstream journalists who’ve written something he deems stupid. That’s […]
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Markey spokesman questions Breakthrough Institute
September 28, 2009 “Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” Those words, “attributed” to the 18th century English essayist Samuel Johnson, are a perfect summation of the oeuvre of The Breakthrough Institute (TBI). So it is with […]
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Obama is going to Copenhagen to push Chicago’s Olympic bid this week
President Barack Obama, who initially planned to let First Lady Michelle Obama represent the United States in Copenhagen this week, when the International Olympic Committee chooses a site for the 2016 summer games, plans to travel there too…. “There is no greater expression of the support our bid enjoys, from the highest levels of government […]
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Bangkok: Day one of the U.N. climate negotiations
Coming right off the heels of the U.N. General Assembly in New York and the G20 in Pittsburgh, the world has taken its next step on the road to Copenhagen: the Bangkok round of negotiations for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This morning the Thai Prime Minister opened the session by […]
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WWF finds tons of new species about to be wiped out by climate change [SLIDESHOW]
We’ve got some good news, some less-than-awesome news, and some killer eye candy. The good news is that 163 wild-and-crazy new species of animals and plants were discovered last year in a single jungle-y region — known as the Greater Mekong — which stretches through six countries, from China’s Tibetan Platueau all the way to […]
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Opportunity, fully funded
Today, Green For All and Living Cities unveiled the Energy Efficiency Opportunity Fund alongside President Clinton, at the closing session of Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting. The groundbreaking fund will finance innovative efforts that create jobs and cut energy costs for low-income families through energy-efficiency building retrofits. I am proud to say that in addition […]
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Coal's Ash is On the Line
This post was co-written by Lyndsay Moseley, Washington Representative for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. For those who remember the tragic TVA coal ash spill of December 2008 and wonder if such a disaster could happen in your town, there have been lots of important recent developments. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started […]
