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Food safety bill passes House, skates to prez's desk at last
After months of being hopelessly embroiled in Senate dysfunction, the Food Safety Modernization Act has triumphed in the House. Again. This time, it will go to Obama's desk and be signed into law.
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Premier Stelmach, Please Read
December 21, 2010 Dear Premier Stelmach, Merry Christmas, Premier Stelmach, and health and happiness to you and your family. We have never met, but this is the first of many letters you will receive from me, each one accompanied by a great and important book. I must say, before I introduce the first one, that […]
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A conversation with Bill McKibben
The paperback version of my book Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our last Chance to Save Humanity is now available. It includes, as an added section, a conversation between me and organizer Bill McKibben.
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Scoop: word analysis reveals GOP secret Senate strategy
Here's a document WikiLeaks doesn't have: a so-called "word cloud" produced by sophisticated word-frequency-analysis software, only available on the internets.
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The top five stories of the year for climate hawks
Here are the top stories that mattered for climate hawks this year. Some of them aren't even depressing!
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Springing to life, food safety bill charts a course to the president’s desk
After passing the Senate once again, this time in a surprise Sunday vote, the food safety bill seems to have a clear pathway to the president's desk, where it will be signed into law.
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Environmentalism is a plot to take over the world, says coalition of Evangelical Christians [VIDEO]
Climate change has split the Evangelical Christian world asunder. On one side, a minority say that the biblical edict to look out for the poor and be good stewards of God's creation makes them natural allies of those who would limit human emissions of greenhouse gasses. On the other ...
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Food safety bill writhes under the heel of D.C. absurdity
Approved by the House and Senate and supported by the president, industry, and even sustainable-ag groups, the food-safety bill is about to get buried alive on the Senate floor. Huh???!!!
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New report confirms, again, that new EPA regulations won't hurt power system reliability
There's been a lot of hubbub lately about new and emerging EPA regulations. Lots of folks in pollution-intensive industries would like you to believe that those regulations will crush the economy, leave grandma shivering in the dark, and smack that ice cream cone right out of little Jimmy's hands. A while back I wrote about a report that examined the issue closely and concluded that the power industry can comply with the new regulations without adversely affecting system reliability. Now another analysis has been released, examining the same set of issues and coming to the roughly same conclusion.
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The Climate Post: Cancun climate talks limp to a compromise at close of hottest year on record
It's official, at least according to NASA: worldwide, 2010 was the hottest year on record.
