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The senator and the moose: Whitehouse makes the climate case in New Hampshire
Rhode Island's Senator Who Cares About Climate goes on a fact-finding mission to the Granite State -- and finds it's all about the moose.
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Obama’s foreign policy doctrine includes climate action
In his speech, he made a brief call for multilateral cooperation on a climate treaty, but he should have said more about the serious threats posed by global warming.
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Michelle Obama’s food fight with GOP: Schools just want to have funds
Politicians fighting over funding for school lunches are lurching toward loosening rules when they should really get serious about boosting funding.
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Why the Koch brothers hate Detroit
The Koch-funded group Americans for Prosperity is trying to kill a deal that would rescue Detroit from financial ruin.
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These are the states where climate hawk Tom Steyer will wage political war
Steyer's super PAC plans to spend $100 million on races in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.
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Don’t worry about that oil spill, congressman says — we’ve got duct tape
The Republican from Louisiana, who went to the same engineering school as Wile E. Coyote, went on to talk about his plan to patch the Titanic with bubble gum.
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Meet me in New York in September, says Bill McKibben — time for a big march
350.org and a coalition of green groups plan a mass September protest in NYC -- just in time for a big U.N. climate conclave.
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Oregon county bans GMO crops
Organic farmers, worried about contamination, win a local campaign, even though the state has its own new rules barring locales from regulating GMOs.
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India’s new prime minister is big on solar power
Narendra Modi is conservative, but he's making clean electricity generation his top energy priority.
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Evangelical Christians call on Florida politicians to take climate action
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio are climate deniers, and that doesn't sit well with some of the state's Evangelical leaders.
