Climate Politics
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Tunisia’s new constitution calls for climate protection
The country that kicked off the Arab Spring has now committed to fighting global warming.
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Senate votes to keep subsidizing flood insurance in flood-prone areas
Climate change and fiscal prudence be damned.
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Low impact: State Department says Keystone won’t hurt much at all
The latest report isn’t the final word, but it gives President Obama one more excuse to approve the pipeline project protesters detest most.
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What kind of a U.N. envoy will Mike Bloomberg be?
New York's ex-mayor will travel the globe as U.N. special envoy on cities and climate change. Can a billionaire credibly address global inequality?
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Did spying take Copenhagen from Hopenhagen to Brokenhagen?
New documents show NSA snoops worked hard to spy on the U.S.'s negotiating partners in 2009's failed climate negotiations.
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To become a law, a farm bill needs friends in unlikely places
The farm bill that staggered across the finish line only got there thanks to its hybrid, mash-up nature: It's a big old compromise.
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Waxman poetic: Climate hawk leaves an impressive ‘stache of green achievements
Congress loses one of its biggest environmental crusaders in Rep. Henry Waxman, who transcended coauthorship of cap-and-trade to earn the nickname "The Mustache of Justice."
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Frackers banned from New York for at least another year
Gov. Cuomo's administration announced that New York's fracking moratorium will not be lifted before April 2015. Frackers, predictably, are freaking.
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Republicans vote to deny climate change
Republicans voted against an amendment that would have stated that greenhouse gases cause climate change. Are they stupid, or just corrupt?
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Hawaii lawmakers move to block local bans on GMOs, pesticides
Hawaii lawmakers have stepped in to protect Monsanto, Syngenta, and other ag giants from local laws that restrict their operations.