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Biden’s buffoonery more newsworthy than climate change
The press devoted twice as much air time to Joe Biden's giggles than to climate change this election season.
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2012: Hot, costly, and ready for action (on climate change)
And it won't happen, because we're all about to get screwed.
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Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist thinks a carbon tax might make sense — with some caveats [UPDATED]
Grover Norquist's half-hearted endorsement of a carbon tax makes it slightly more likely to happen, but it probably still won't.
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Climate should be Obama’s No. 1 priority, say lots of people who aren’t tree-hugging enviros
The New Yorker calls on Obama to put climate action at the top of his agenda. So does Republican Christine Todd Whitman and other non-hippies.
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Do environmental groups deserve credit for big wins last week?
Green groups invested in eight U.S. Senate races, and their preferred candidates won in seven of them. What does that tell us? It's complicated.
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Hundreds of thousands still without power post-Sandy, provoking backlash against utilities
New York Gov. Cuomo is furious with utilities and promises to review their contracts. Meanwhile, Reuters looks at whether customers could sue.
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Climate science is Nate Silver and U.S. politics is Karl Rove
Republicans disregarded Nate Silver and other empiricists, and lost badly. Almost everyone is ignoring the empirical data of climate scientists -- and our losses could be catastrophic.
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Obama might push for a carbon tax, according to optimists unfamiliar with ‘the House’
Several reports have suggested that a carbon tax could be part of a budget deal. John Boehner laughed and laughed.
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What a Cabinet shake-up could mean for energy and the climate
Lisa Jackson at EPA, Steven Chu at the Dept. of Energy, and Ken Salazar at Interior are all rumored to be on the way out. Who might replace them?
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Does Michigan’s clean-energy loss mean that greens are outgunned at the state level?
Michiganders voted down a requirement for 25 percent clean power by 2025. Blame a torrent of dirty-energy spending, which we'll be seeing more of in the future, says David Roberts.
