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Karl Rove’s super PAC attacks Obama for preventing oil spills
Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove’s super PAC, is spending $1.7 million in six swing states to attack Obama’s energy policy. Here’s what Rove wants swing voters to think about Obama: We’re not really sure that it’s the best political strategy to remind voters that the Bush administration existed at all, let alone that it passed policies […]
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Building codes: Small rules that help homeowners save big on energy
Illinois is poised to adopt the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code. New building codes can make a big dent in carbon emissions, and save residents money.
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Congressman brags about forcing vegetarians to ‘confess’
Has Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) ever met a vegetarian? They're not exactly secretive about it. It's like forcing people to "confess" that they're on the paleo diet. Spoiler alert: THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW.
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Energy for the next 20 years: my panel at the New York Academy of Sciences
Back in January, I was the moderator for a panel at the New York Academy of Sciences called “Energy for the Next 20 Years: Protecting the Environment and Meeting Our Demands.” It featured: Stewart Brand (Long Now Foundation) Joe Fargione (The Nature Conservancy) Jesse Jenkins (Breakthrough Institute) Arne Jungjohann (Heinrich Boell Foundation) Jeff Opperman (The […]
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Being Green: Presidential hopeful Jill Stein aims to rebuild a broken system
The Green Party’s front-runner says she wants to get corporations out of politics, create universal health care and free higher education, and rebuild the American economy. Don’t even get her started on Ralph Nader.
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Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic: Still rocking the vote
Nirvana's Krist Novoselic transformed from rock star to wonky election reformist. As we head into a polarized 2012 election, his championing of ranked choice voting could help give marginalized environmental issues serious political clout.
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Trade in the 20th century electric grid. Don’t trade off local energy
The future of U.S. energy policy is not about trade-offs, but rather a chance to trade in an obsolete paradigm for a local clean energy future.
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Republicans for Environmental Protection drops ‘Republicans’ from name
Once upon a time, there were green Republicans. Now, not so much.
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Chris Hayes on the absurdity of oil subsidies
Guest hosting for Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes unspools a nice, long segment on the latest failed attempt to remove oil company subsidies. It’s worth watching the whole thing:
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More on ramping down baseload power and ramping up storage
Baseload is going the way of VHS. We must shed our aversion to innovation so we can start actually planning for the energy system we want.
