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Tea Party hires actors to feign indignation over plan to save Everglades
They couldn’t find real people to do Big Sugar’s bidding, so they had to pay $75 each to faux protesters.
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Jerry Brown tells climate deniers to wake up and smell the drought
"With the weather that's happening in California, climate change is not a hoax. We're dealing with it, and it's damn serious," said the state's governor.
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5 years after a deadly coal mine disaster, what’s changed?
As the trial winds up for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, Coal Country is going through tectonic shifts.
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What do conservative policy intellectuals think about climate change?
Some respected conservative writers and think tank scholars have more interesting things to say about climate policy than you might think.
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Hello, state lawmakers: Want to ignore climate change? Prepare to lose FEMA funding
New FEMA guidelines could push states to consider how climate change will affect their communities in order to gain access to funding.
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USDA kicks in $31 million to help poor people eat better
New grants support community programs that give food stamp recipients more bang for their fruit and vegetable bucks.
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10 crazy things Republicans said that are not April Fools’ jokes
Unfortunately, GOP politicians actually believe this stuff.
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Here are the other tar-sands pipelines Canada is trying to build
Keystone XL is far from the only game in town.
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Obama makes climate pledge to world, Republicans snipe in background
The president has unveiled his plan for cutting emissions as part of a U.N. deal. Mitch McConnell is just as supportive as you might imagine.
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Ted Cruz and the GOP have a big climate problem
Will Republicans' anti-climate-science rhetoric be a legitimate barrier to the White House?
