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Clean energy grants extended for a year; still a dumb way to do things
It looks like a one-year extension of the renewable-energy grant program has made it into the tax bill now brewing in Congress. It's much, much better than the alternative, but it's also no way to run a country.
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The Climate Post: Some progress in Cancun climate talks, but mostly a morass of competing interests
Cancun climate talks negotiators got down to brass tacks. There were comic relief moments, like the removal of climate skeptic Christopher Monckton from a luncheon
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WikiLeaks: U.S. turned the pope into its enforcer on Copenhagen climate talks
WikiLeaks today published a cable indicating Pope Benedict XVI has been pulling strings on behalf of the U.S. And he might get an electric popemobile.
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New report shows dirty coal doing even more damage than you thought
A new study shows EPA has been undercounting the externalities imposed by ozone pollution, and thus understating net benefits of its new ozone rules.
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Regional cap-and-trade advances
Everyone is disappointed about climate policy prospects. I can't say that I'm thrilled, but we should take heart at what's happening on the state level
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Food safety passes House, skulks back to Senate
Like a fallen eater rising from the mat after a nasty case of food poisoning, the food safety bill staggered back to life yesterday.
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Is EPA running scared from the incoming Republican Congress?
I've been worrying aloud on the blog that the Obama administration doesn't seem to be doing much to prepare for the relentless assault on EPA that's already underway, not only on its coming greenhouse gas regulations but on its entire agenda. Instead, the agency looks to be backing down.
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Time to move like the wind to save clean energy
Rep. Ed Markey argues that the framework tax deal announced this week by President Obama and GOP Senate leaders threatens to kill clean energy jobs.
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Bangladesh minister responds to GOP climate zombies
Bangladesh environment minister says negative climate impacts are obvious in his country.
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Has Japan killed the Kyoto Protocol? Does it really matter?
Japan won't renew its Kyoto Protocol commitment unless China and the US join. Greens and developing countries condemn them but can we really blame them?
