Climate Politics
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Will 2013 be the year of ag-gag bills?
Animal advocates expect Big Ag will fight even harder against whistleblowers this year.
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Colbert skewers the climate fatalism caucus
The Colbert Report had a wicked segment on climate change this week. Watch it.
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to ride off into the sunset
At first greens and urbanists were skeptical of the Republican from Illinois, but now they're sorry to see him go.
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Texas is thinking about giving its oil and gas inspectors guns
Nothing helps resolve tense, volatile situations like firearms.
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Beijing’s recurring air pollution grounds flights, puts kids in the hospital
It seems clear that the problem isn't going away any time soon.
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Missing the point of the cap-and-trade defeat
We already have a popular grassroots movement demanding climate action: Beyond Coal. And D.C. environmentalists could learn a lot from it.
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Marco Rubio: ‘Changing the weather’ isn’t something government can do
But it's something that Rubio's fossil fuel backers are doing already.
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What it looks like when Obama’s passion spurs him to defy the political odds
President Obama is defying steep political odds to tackle an intractable issue by appealing directly to the American people. The issue? Gun safety. On climate he's still keeping quiet.
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A chat with the Sierra Club’s Michael Brune about civil disobedience
For the first time ever, the Sierra Club is sanctioning civil disobedience. Brune explains why the group chose Keystone XL as its target.
