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The Wall Street Journal editorial board does not like clean air
The Wall Street Journal's editorial on the EPA mangles basic facts and omits mention of the overwhelming public health benefits from cleaner air.
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Cities, states start to adopt climate change survival strategies
In California, an advisory panel recommends preparing for rising sea levels, along with more wildfires, heat waves, and water shortages.
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Feds push to speed up wind farms off the East Coast
The White House finally decided that it was time to get serious about tapping into all that wind blowing along the Atlantic Coast.
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The best 9 steps toward oil independence
The Mobility Choice Coalition ranks the most effective ways to reduce transportation-oil dependence in a new report.
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Ontario feed-in tariffs creating solar jobs at the cost of a donut per month
A new report says the impact of Ontario's feed-in tariffs for solar photovoltaics, which will create 70,000 jobs, is no more than one donut per month.
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Behavior change causes changes in beliefs, not vice versa
An enormous amount of attention has focused on public belief in climate change -- polls, surveys, studies, punditry, and endless elite hand-wringing. The often unstated assumption hiding behind the discussion is that getting people to say they believe in climate change is the top priority for everyone who wants progress on this issue. But maybe changing behavior comes first.
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Greenhouse gas pledges aren't enough to stop global warming
Even if all the countries that pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions live up to their commitments, it's still not enough to control global warming. Plus, Satan and climate change deniers.
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Why does the American public suddenly believe in climate change less?
In the U.S., belief in human-caused climate change has dropped off considerably since 2008 or so. People have come up with some pretty baroque theories around this, but the explanation seems simple enough: the economy has been in the tank and partisanship has been on the rise.
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Is birth control in our water destroying the environment?
Blaming birth control for estrogen in water is a distraction from the egregious use of synthetic estrogens by chemical companies and factory farms.
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Attention, cap-and-trade fans: the carbon-tax people are not going away
This past weekend, about 500 people gathered at Wesleyan College in Middletown, Conn., for the Pricing Carbon Conference.
