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Alicia Silverstone thinks the true injustice is that Pussy Riot isn’t getting vegan cuisine
It’s, like, so totally uncool that Russian punksters Pussy Riot are in jail for singing a song that suggested that their president, scary asshole Vladimir Putin, is a scary asshole. And if this uncoolness were a vegan terrine, actress/vegan activist Alicia Silverstone would like to point out that the thickest layer, the layer that’s maybe […]
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Six empty chairs that say more about the environment than Barack Obama
Last night, Clint Eastwood had a lively conversation with an empty chair that he apparently thought was Barack Obama. Grist List does not endorse candidates, but we know a lot about chairs for some reason, and frankly some of the chairs we’ve met have an environmental record that rivals the president’s. Obama should pick one […]
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Governor Romney’s 2004 climate plan: Solyndra-style investment in renewables
Back in the day, as governor of Massachusetts, Romney proposed greenhouse-gas cuts, government investment in cleantech companies, better auto fuel economy, and lots of other good stuff.
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Lawmaker: We’ll keep the wind tax credit if you give us Keystone
This is perhaps the worst proposed deal in recent Capitol Hill history.
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Hapless Shell inches forward with drilling in the Arctic
With clearance from the Department of the Interior to proceed, Shell will shortly start digging underwater holes in the Earth.
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Romney treats climate as a punchline
In the final speech of the party's convention, the Republican candidate mocks President Obama's pledge to deal with climate change.
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Energy and environment in the GOP platform: They said what?
We read the whole 62-page Republican platform so you don't have to. Here are the good bits, by which we mean the bad bits.
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Obama calls for massive push on industrial efficiency
The president set a goal of 40 gigawatts of combined heat and power (which we explain) in industrial facilities by 2020.
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Mr. Rand Paul wants you to be nice to Mr. Exxon Mobil
Mr. Gristmill scoffs, kicks sand in his face.
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Mermaids are real and apparently don’t like taxes or universal health care
Angry Ron Paul delegates and racist peanut throwers were not the only strange attendees of the Republican National Convention. There were also mermaids present.
