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Obama & GOP should cut red tape blocking tribe’s green energy
President Obama and the GOP should join forces to remove the bureaucratic barriers to rapid renewable energy deployment on Native American lands.
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California's cap-and-trade plan is better for environmental justice than the alternatives
Gov. Jerry Brown will move forward with Assembly Bill 32, under which California seeks dramatic steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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California’s cap-and-trade plan is better for environmental justice than the alternatives
Gov. Jerry Brown will move forward with Assembly Bill 32, under which California seeks dramatic steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Why arch-polluter Koch Industries owes the planet its entire net worth
Koch Industries is helmed by climate change deniers who fund a disinformation campaign aimed at committing planet earth to millennia of runaway climate change. No surprise, then, that if you calculate the cumulative damage the Koch brothers' company has done to the environment, it almost exactly equals their net worth!
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How food prices can fuel revolutions like Egypt's
The current unrest in Egypt is too complex to blame on spiking global food prices alone, but food insecurity does lead to political insecurity.
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How food prices can fuel revolutions like Egypt’s
The current unrest in Egypt is too complex to blame on spiking global food prices alone, but food insecurity does lead to political insecurity.
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Why Seattle will stay dry when your city floods
Seattle is better prepared for a climate-changed future than most U.S. cities. You can thank Ron Sims.
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Paul LePage, new Maine guv, takes aim at the environment
This week, Paul LePage made the leap from abrasive style to corrosive substance, proposing a dramatic rollback of Maine's environmental protections.
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California congressman: Highways are constitutionally mandated, bike paths not a federal concern
Rep. Duncan Hunter says, "I don't think biking should fall under the federal purview of what the Transportation Committee is there for."
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For the last time: no, clean energy is not a substitute for climate change
I was going to let this go after my last post, but it keeps coming up in email and on Twitter: "Obama talked about clean energy. Isn't that equivalent to and/or a substitute for talking about climate change?" And the Inventioneers are writing characteristically smug posts congratulating themselves for winning the future. So it looks like I need to take one more run at this.
