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Maryland’s Republican governor just let a fracking moratorium become law
Gov. Larry Hogan didn't sign the bill but he didn't veto it either because the state legislature would have overriden a veto.
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Martin O’Malley could try to out-green Bernie Sanders
O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, is running for president. Will he make a push to be the biggest climate hawk in the Democratic field?
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Here’s why we need to politicize disasters
Ted Cruz says we shouldn't politicize the Texas floods. He's wrong. If we want to prevent disasters tomorrow, we need talk about vulnerabilities today.
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California Senate candidate: “We’re all going to die”
Mike Beitiks is running on a "single board platform": He's all climate, all the time.
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A Republican governor just bucked his party to veto an ag-gag law
In a shocking move of moral consistency, a governor says that if we protect whistleblowers in nursing homes, we shouldn't prosecute them on farms.
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Obama tweets it up on climate change and Arctic drilling
Obama's first significant act as @POTUS was to hold a chat on climate change.
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The climate movement doesn’t need conservatives
An environmentalist calling for the climate movement to incorporate conservatives is like a fundamentalist pastor calling for the anti–gay marriage movement to incorporate liberals.
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EPA’s new rules on river pollution outrage the usual suspects
The agency reasserts its authority to regulate rivers in the wake of court decisions that reined in its powers. This rankles some politicians.
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You can’t talk about the future of the Democratic Party without talking about climate change
A recent N.Y. Times article paints Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D) as a pragmatist fighting off a challenge from his left, but it misses the mark by ignoring his progressive leadership on climate change.
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The Tea Party can’t stand this presidential hopeful
Why Lindsey Graham has right-wing activists up in arms.
