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7-Eleven melting at idea of White House 'Slurpee Summit'
At Wednesday's post-election presidential press conference, a summit built around frozen slushies -- the Everyman drink, we guess -- was suggested as a way of returning to bipartisanship.
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Midterms: Green power helps Colorado buck the national trend
Wins by Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper sent a strong signal that supporting new energy and fighting global warming pollution are winning issues.
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Me, on EnergyNow [VIDEO]
I was on the show EnergyNow yesterday. I think the episode airs this morning on ABC in the Washington, D.C. area, after Christiane Amanpour's show. Here's the clip and a few thoughts.
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House Republicans vying for top energy spot ratchet up tough talk
Now that the voting stuff is over, Washington gets down to its real business: Backroom power.
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Why did the Prop 23 fight in California go so well while the national effort flailed?
Why were climate hawks so successful in California while they've done so poorly at the national level? What lessons can be learned from the Prop 23 campaign? Here are a few thoughts to get the discussion started.
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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?
