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The failed presidency of Barack Obama, post-election edition
Future generations will judge us with unimaginable harshness for our failure to address the coming global catastrophe, and justifiably so.
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Big Oil's Golden Backup Plan
One of the few bright spots for environmentalists and progressives over the last year was this week’s successful defeat of Proposition 23 in California. As the organizer Saul Alinsky famously observed, power flows from both people and money. Unlike every other energy battle this year, for Prop 23, activists had both. It hasn’t been […]
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Will Prop 26 scuttle California climate regulations?
While Prop 23 failed to garner enough Californians' support to stop climate change regulation, the less well-publicized Prop 26 succeeded at the polls
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Science proves it: Climate change legislation didn't hurt Democrats
Our analysis shows that House Democrats didn't suffer for voting for cap-and-trade more than they might have otherwise, even though some champions of the bill, such as Rich Boucher (Va.), were defeated Tuesday.
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Obama tries to pick up the pieces on climate and energy
The president is thinking small. Republicans are thinking oil and nuclear. How's this going to work?
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Putting the midterm elections in the context of the latest climate science (and life as we know it)
The election results mean it is now virtually impossible to avoid exceeding the targets set forth by the U.N. for "safe" levels of climate change.
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The electric sector is able to manage tighter EPA standards
For all the good it's done, you'd think by now the Clean Air Act would get more respect. Yet, the act is once again under attack.
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What the midterms mean for federal ag-policy reform
That two-headed beast known as the Congressional Ag Committees got a major blood transfusion from voters Tuesday. Here's how it shook out -- and what to expect going forward.
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Half of GOP caucus are climate zombies, four members admit science is real
45 of 97 Republican freshmen and 85 of 166 re-elected Republicans are confirmed climate zombies.
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Agribiz BFF Bill Northey defeats reformer Francis Thicke for Iowa ag secretary
It's agribusiness as usual in Iowa, where voters sent a message to Washington that the status quo is just fine with them.
