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Video of the year: Right Wing Radio Duck
I've watched with some trepidation as folks in the energy policy world have laughed off the "energy efficiency is fascism" business bubbling up on the right. The fact that it's outlandish on the merits doesn't mean it can't take off and substantially alter public perception. The country's feeling insecure and anxious, and that means easy prey for demagogues. This mash-up from Jonathan McIntosh makes the point with brilliant, hilarious clarity
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Obama rallies to the defense of what little remains of clean energy policy
Obama says it's "essential" to get moving on clean energy. Because it's so essential, we ... extended some tax breaks. Now even those are in danger.
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Will Pete Rouse, Obama’s new chief of staff, push for climate action?
Rahm Emanuel's replacement has political savvy, energy-policy chops, and experience warding off environmental attacks from Republicans in Congress.
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A small venture that could generate big results
Imagine a program that turns a relatively small initial investment into billions of dollars of U.S. economic growth, thousands of new Americans jobs, and groundbreaking technologies that change the way we use energy in this country and around the world. It's called the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and it is about to be given the bureaucratic equivalent of a death sentence.
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Maine: Guv candidate Paul LePage hates Obama, reporters, and the planet
Paul LePage, the TeaOP candidate for governor in Maine, has a loony climate-denying, DEP-bashing, offshore-oil-dr … spilling platform.
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Senator blocks budget director nominee over offshore drilling ban
Jack Lew, the would-be budget director, is sidelined by Louisiana Sen Mary Landrieu's attempts to force Obama to lift the offshore drilling moratorium
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The Climate Post: 2011 could see truly epic legislative battles over climate, energy
Read more on the fate of the renewable energy standard, nice Canadians and their not-so-nice tar sands, electric cars, and more.
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What oil? Government scientists say they can't find much crude in the Gulf
This is just getting bizarre. A government-sponsored team of scientists out searching for oil in the Gulf reports it hasn't found any.
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Industry wraps coal ash regulation fight in the mantle of civil rights
Some opponents of stronger coal ash regulation are trying to make their case in the language of civil rights. But their argument doesn't fly.
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Progressives don't screw other progressives. Okay, shouldn't.
Lately, I've been mulling over how climate/energy policy relates to the larger politics of progressivism. Some think Obama has been so bad on environmental issues that environmentalists should try to mount a primary challenge in 2012. Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that the environmental critique is valid. Does it therefore follow that greens should work to see him gone?
