Climate Politics
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Obama alums press their ex-boss to bar pipeline
The government may be closed for business, but the opposition to the Keystone XL project continues to push the White House.
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Kiribati climate refugees fighting to stay in New Zealand
A couple's homeland is being lost beneath rising seas. Does New Zealand have any obligation to give them asylum?
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Lawmakers seek answers after oil gushes during Colorado floods
As Colorado oil officials continue to tally the toxic toll of flooded fracking facilities -- more than 60,000 gallons and counting -- two congressmembers are calling for a hearing.
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North Carolina rejects federal funds for fracking studies
The Tar Heel State's Republican administration apparently doesn't want anybody to know how fracking is affecting the environment.
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Government shutdown would close EPA, too
Congratulations, Congress! When you cripple the federal government, you'll also scuttle the agency that tries to keep polluters at bay.
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The scary, the cautionary, and the stupid: Reactions to the IPCC climate report
Most smart people expressed alarm at the findings of the IPCC's latest assessment report. Climate deniers had other reactions.
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The Maldives, a fledgling democracy at the vanguard of climate change
An IPCC report on future sea-level rise looms, but climate issues have been absent from the political campaigns on the paradise atolls.
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4 climate myths you’ll hear this week
'Tis the season of climate denial. Be prepared.
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Aussies open wallets to save climate advisers from new prime minister
Australia's new climate-denying leader scrapped a federal climate task force. Some of his more enlightened countrymen and women are funding it as a nonprofit, instead.
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The whitewashing of the environmental movement
The traditional environmental movement has a diversity problem. And for the environmentalism as a whole to succeed, that needs to change, says Van Jones.
