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Obama makes a trip to the EPA
President Obama and the EPA have not had an entirely uncomplicated relationship during his tenure, but in the face of a GOP candidate field that is almost uniformly anti-environment, the president is throwing his lot in with clean air and water regulations. He's making a trip to EPA headquarters this afternoon to thank employees for their work, notably the new mercury standards.
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Campaign dreams: A GOP primary race where climate matters
On the final day of New Hampshire campaigning, can an anonymous donor get GOP candidates to care about the climate with cold, hard cash? Find out.
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Chief of Staff Bill Daley resigns, environment rejoices
Greens have been singing "won't you go home, Bill Daley" for a while (turn-of-the-century music jokes, anyone? No?). The now-former chief of staff was the guy responsible for kneecapping EPA smog regulations, and he was generally considered to be in the administration merely as a sop to Big Business. So now he's resigning, and probably the next guy will be an improvement? We hope?
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Why the 2012 Farm Bill is a climate bill
The Environmental Working Group says climate change activists should be concerned about proposed cuts to farm bill conservation programs, which would be the carbon-emissions equivalent of adding 2 million cars a year to America's roads.
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Boston Globe endorses Huntsman, cites climate and energy views
Jon Huntsman, the least crazy GOP presidential candidate, scored an endorsement from the largest newspaper in the state Mitt Romney once governed.
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These Republicans believe in climate change. And they vote
Watching this excellent short film by James West about that rare-but-not-as-rare-as-you-think species, the Republican who believes the science of climate change, I was reminded that there was a time in U.S. politics when science was not a partisan issue.
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Time to be angry, not cynical, about corporate money in politics
We're unfazed by things that should shake us to the core, like how Big Oil pays Congress to do its bidding. We need to get naïvely angry again.
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If they win, Republicans plan to permanently cripple EPA
The GOP isn't just opposed to the occasional EPA rule. Republicans want to undermine the ability of EPA -- indeed, any regulatory agency -- to issue science-based rules at all.
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Newt Gingrich, ‘amateur paleontologist,’ knows science better than you
Sure, there's overwhelming consensus among climate scientists (and scientists in a host of other fields) that climate change is for realsies. These are people with doctoral degrees, decades of experience, high-end instrumentation, and mountains of data -- but are any of them amateur paleontologists? Newt Gingrich is, and that means he knows they're wrong, and so there.
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Rick Perry advocates solution to climate problem he doesn’t believe in
Of all the GOP candidates, Rick Perry has been perhaps the most fervently dismissive of the reality of human-caused climate change. So why does his energy plan include a provision for "clean coal" technology, which is used to capture carbon dioxide and pump it underground?
