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Obama vetoes Keystone bill. You can thank 30 Rock.
Congress tried to take the Keystone decision out of Obama's hands. Obama said no -- probably because Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin told him to.
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Climate-denying scientist got piles of money from fossil fuel interests
Willie Soon, a favorite among climate deniers, describes his research as "deliverables" in correspondence with his dirty funders.
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Gentrification might be real, but it’s the least of Chicago’s worries
For Chicago's depressed black neighborhoods, yuppie invasions are more manageable than chronic problems of inequality and ineffective policy.
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Understanding Obama’s suckiness on climate
The president has been pretty good about reducing demand for dirty energy, and pretty bad about increasing its supply. Why?
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Mounties claim anti-oil activists are a threat to Canada
A classified report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warns that the "anti-Canada petroleum movement" contains "militants and violent extremists."
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Britain’s most powerful politicians agree fighting climate change is a jolly good idea
The leaders of the country’s three major parties signed a joint pledge to aggressively fight climate change and phase out the use of coal.
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8 ways Obama sucks on climate
Think he’s doing all he can? Au contraire. Again and again, the president encourages fossil fuel exploitation and goes soft on polluters.
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Kitzhaber is on his way out, but expect Oregon to keep being a green leader
The resigning governor has been an outspoken climate advocate. Fortunately, he’ll be replaced by a liberal Democrat who’s likely to embrace climate action too.
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These countries are making polluters pay
By next year, nearly half of global GDP will be covered by cap-and-trade programs.
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Protests, oil prices add fuel to the divestment fire
Sit-ins make the moral case for universities to dump their fossil fuel investments, but the collapse of oil prices adds a push from the invisible hand.