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Can a technology-first approach to climate change work?
The progression of time and accumulated evidence of global warming finds us still committed to forging solutions -- albeit, different ones.
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A chat with New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza about climate in the Senate
This month, The New Yorker ran an extraordinary 10,000-word piece by reporter Ryan Lizza detailing the climate bill's slow and inglorious failure in the U.S. Senate. It was a feat of inside reporting, meaty enough to support dozens of follow-on posts dissecting and illuminating it. I'm very pleased to report that Lizza will be stopping by for a chat with Grist readers and me TODAY at 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific.
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Why we need to change the way we spend on transportation
We've been doing transportation planning wrong for generations. And our economy is paying for it.
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Groups with ties to Karl Rove break fundraising goals, push money to party of climate zombies
Money from secret donors is pouring into conservative groups and they're planning to use it to put out even more attack ads in the weeks ahead.
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Are the politics of public investment really easier?
I'm somewhat dismayed to see the normally sharp Ezra Klein falling for the goofiest parts of the new Breakthrough/Brookings/AEI report. In fact he seems on the verge of drinking the Breakthrough kool-aid entirely. Consider this my attempt at an intervention. In particular, I want to take issue with the notion that investment is some sort of political skeleton key that can bypass the vicious partisan fighting that's characterized energy policy these last few decades.
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Koch brothers' Tea Party connections confirmed [VIDEO]
The billionaire Koch brothers claim they are not connected to the Tea Party. But a new video shows David Koch at an Americans For Prosperity gala.
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There is no one correct climate policy
One of the most important lessons from the implosion of cap-and-trade is that monocrops are as dangerous in policy as they are in nature. It's time to get over the notion that climate/energy efforts need to "revolve around" any single policy strategy. More importantly, we need to leapfrog the noxious notion that different policy approaches are at war with one another. We need them all.
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Think tanks say dump cap-and-trade, pump billions into clean energy
A bi-partisan team of think tankers says good riddance to cap-and-trade. Instead, they say we should pump boatloads of money into clean energy.
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Heartland grows new crop of anti-climate governor candidates
In Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming, four Democratic governors who have supported clean energy may be replaced by Republicans who have expressed fealty to big oil. The Republican candidates -- Terry Branstad in Iowa, Sen. Sam Brownback in Kansas, Rep. Mary Fallin in Oklahoma, and Matt Mead in Wyoming -- hold commanding leads in the polls over their Democratic opponents.
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Deadly deception: How some industry lobbyists peddle deception to block clean air protections
As industry lobbyists attack standards to cut deadly toxic air pollution from industrial boilers, they are resorting to obfuscation and deception.
