Climate Politics
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Massive bailout of energy company prompts predictable response
Here's a good overview of the state of energy politics in America today.
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Obama talks up oil and gas drilling
In an interview with Time, Obama pushes not just wind and efficiency but oil, natural gas, and ever-elusive notion of "clean coal."
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As Romney and Ryan lie with abandon, how should journalists navigate post-truth politics?
Journalists like to be even-handed, but when one side lies with no compunction, that's not so easy.
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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.
