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Chances for renewable electricity standard now slim and slimmer
Congress wasn't back in town long, but long enough to start sucking the life out of a federal renewable electricity standard. Sen. Lindsey Graham is doing his part to muck things up -- again.
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McCain has become a climate conspiracy theorist
John McCain, once a champion of strong action to fight global warming, joined the rest of the Republican Senate caucus in questioning climate science.
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A chat with Earl Blumenauer about livable communities and right-wing paranoia
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) spoke with Grist about livability, paranoia, and spreading the success of Portland.
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Obama: We may need to solve climate change in 'chunks'
Obama told Rolling Stone we may have to solve climate change in chunks. Done with resolve, this has the potential to surpass a comprehensive climate bill
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WIC Recipients Should Have Access to Organic
It is a truth of modern day grocery shopping that a bag of apples costs more than a bag of chips. Unfortunately, the cost disparity between healthy and unhealthy foods is a driving force behind what goes into shopping carts – a sad reality for millions of Americans who struggle to afford healthy food. National […]
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Will Ed Miliband take Britain’s Labor Party from red to green?
Ed Miliband, new leader of Britain's Labor Party, helped to push through binding targets on CO2 emissions. How will he shape the party's green agenda?
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Obama is 'committed' to using 'whole weight of the presidency' to address climate change
In a Rolling Stone interview, President Obama addressed the collapse of climate legislation in the Senate and the future of cap-and-trade.
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Stupid goes viral: Climate Zombies of Kansas, Nevada, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Tennessee
A look at five states turns up one Republican who worries about his carbon footprint and a second who's acknowledged climate science in the past.
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More than 100 arrested at mountaintop-mining protest [SLIDESHOW]
More than 100 people, including climate scientist James Hansen, were arrested at the Appalachia Rising protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining
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No, nuclear power does not belong in the RES
Yesterday's Washington Post editorial pretty well mirrors current centrist conventional wisdom on energy policy: carbon tax would have been best, cap-and-trade would have been second best, and the renewable electricity standard (RES) now before the Senate would be third best. However, say centrists, the RES should be expanded into a "Clean Energy Standard," allowing other low-carbon energy sources like nuclear and natural gas to qualify.
