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World’s richest woman would prefer to pay her miners $2 a day
Gina Rinehart, world's richest woman, can't believe she has to pay miners more than they would earn in Africa. She'd much rather pay them $2 a day (or less).
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Paul Ryan’s wind power hypocrisy
His arguments against the wind production tax credit would be much better applied to subsidies for Big Oil.
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Ed Markey, coauthor of big cap-and-trade bill, now lauds Obama’s ‘drill baby drill’ approach
Rep. Ed Markey, one of the biggest climate hawks in Congress, is now talking up President Obama's "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, from renewables to oil drilling.
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Big Dog touches on big issue: Bill Clinton nods to climate change in convention speech
In a barn burner of a speech Wednesday night, Bill Clinton became the first big-timer at the Democratic convention to make reference to climate change.
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Coal company: Global market prompts miner furlough. GOP rep: I blame Obama
The closure of at least one mine will put 606 employees out of work.
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Climate and energy get no love on day one of Democratic convention
Michelle Obama, Julian Castro, and other headliners generated a lot of energy -- just not the kind you can power a house or a car with.
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The government can’t afford its greenhouse gas monitoring regimen anymore
NOAA spends about $6 million a year to monitor CO2 and other greenhouse gases -- or it used to, when it had money.
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The Democratic Convention kicks off, its greenness in the eye of the beholder
The Democrats' platform is less green than it was four years ago -- but they have lots of composting and recycling bins at the convention center.
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Romney attributes climate change to humans — but won’t make humans do anything about it
Mitt Romney says there's no point in curbing emissions given China's greenhouse gas output and theoretical impact on manufacturing jobs.
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Conservative pundit David Brooks: What if Obama made climate his top priority?
New York Times columnist David Brooks suggests Obama put climate at his campaign's center. Is he for real? And what if the president took his advice?
