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My debate on energy policy with Steve Everley — watch it! [VIDEO]
Watch a highlight reel or full video of David Roberts' debate with Steve Everley, policy director at Newt Gingrich's shop, American Solutions.
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Veterans Day, the new Earth Day?
It's a provocative argument that a clean-energy revolution depends on the military signing up. The good news is that it already has.
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Rep. Ed Markey makes bid for ranking spot on Natural Resources Committee
Since his committee on climate change is being disbanded, and action on climate change is almost certain to stall for many years, Rep. Ed Markey is heading over to the Natural Resources Committee, where he can defend the EPA and investigate the oil industry.
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Christie finds the Right’s kingmakers demand orthodoxy on climate change
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie brings the latest evidence that there's no room in the Right's top ranks for anything but suspicion of climate science.
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The EPA, the Clean Air Act, and U.S. manufacturing
Members of Congress who are committed to helping industry save energy and become more globally competitive should think twice about undercutting existing federal laws that have the potential to spur efficiency upgrades at domestic manufacturing facilities.
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A question for James Fallows about coal and focus
I waded into "Dirty Coal, Clean Future," James Fallows' new cover piece for The Atlantic, prepared to be outraged, what with coal being the enemy of the human race and all. But it turns out to be an incredibly cogent, accessible walk through some extremely vexed issues. Still I can't help wonder why he put the focus on coal's necessity rather than its evil.
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Oil spill investigator says no corners were cut to save money
BP's critics are incredulous at the conclusion that people on the doomed oil rig weren't motivated by cost-cutting to take risks.
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King Coal wins the midterms
In the final year of his remarkable life, Robert C. Byrd, the longest serving senator in US history, did one more remarkable thing. He called for serious dialogue on coal, climate change and the effects of mountaintop removal mining. “To deny the mounting science of climate change is to stick our heads in the sand and say 'deal me out,'” Byrd told his fellow West Virginians late in 2009. And on the EPA’s efforts to rein in the most egregious damage from mountaintop removal, he said, “West Virginians may demonstrate anger towards the EPA…but we risk the very probable consequence of shouting ourselves out of any productive dialogue.” Briefly, there was hope that the mountain state’s elder statesman might pull local politics away from a dead-end logic. Very briefly. Sen. Byrd died in June. By October, the man who would replace him in the Senate thumbed his nose at Byrd’s desire for reasoned discourse and picked up a gun.
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The post-election outlook for regional cap-and-trade
It's a toxic phrase in pundit-land, but cap-and-trade is humming along in the Northeast and preparing to launch in California (and maybe other Western states). A Midwestern program is probably dead after victories by clean-energy-hostile Republicans.
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To block EPA regulations, Koch Industries expands lobbying campaign to children
Regulation Reality Tour, produced by Koch's Americans for Prosperity, featured a SWAT car shaped moon bounce for children, symbolizing EPA Carbon Cops
