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Brookings embraces AEI’s climate head fake
A new report from Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute called "Post-Partisan power" is an oxymoronic, dishonest distraction.
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Angry county could cut California out of $33 million in efficiency cash
California may lose $33 million in energy-efficiency funds because officials in Riverside County are upset they didn't get more than half of the sum.
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Highlights from our chat with reporter Ryan Lizza on Senate climate politics
A big Grist thanks to reporter Ryan Lizza, author of the magisterial recent piece in The New Yorker on the death of the climate bill in the Senate, for stopping by to chat with us yesterday. The entire (two-hour!) transcript is still up, but here are a few highlights.
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The Climate Post: Psychoanalyzing the GOP’s flourishing climate skepticism
The GOP is the only conservative party in the developed world in which denial of climate science is endemic. Plus, scientists brace for the elections, and electric cars hit a rough patch.
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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.
