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Florida governor’s race: Sink vs. Scott
Florida's governor race pits Alex Sink (D), a former banking executive comfortable talking energy efficiency and cleantech business plans, against Rick Scott (R), a largely unknown hospital-chain owner who supports offshore drilling but hasn't made his positions clear on many other green issues. For a state that's failed to live up to its clean-energy potential -- and a state uniquely vulnerable to climate change -- the differences are significant.
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Carly Fiorina was for climate and energy legislation before she was against it
Last week, Carly Fiorina waffled on whether she supported the landmark climate and clean energy legislation that Prop 23 would kill, since, she supported cap-and-trade during the presidential campaign. Now the GOP Senate candidate has completed her flip-flop to full support for the dirty energy proposition funded by Big Oil.
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Does the RES stand a chance?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may still try to pass a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). Does it have a shot, or will Republicans pull the football?
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Michigan governor’s race: Snyder vs. Bernero
Michigan Republican Rick Snyder is a high-tech venture capitalist, a one-time Nature Conservancy board member, and a Smart Growth backer who talks about investing in transit and reining in sprawl. And he could well become governor of a state with huge challenges and huge opportunities to reshape its economy. For enviros searching for the elusive "green Republican," he's worth tracking.
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California's Prop 23 is bad news for Latino families
Proposition 23 will threaten all Californians' health and safety. But the Latino community will suffer disproportionate harm from a repeal of AB 32.
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Coal industry flack combines chutzpah and illogic into tasty agitprop stew
A letter to The New York Times from Steve Miller, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, is dense with illogic and deception.
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Stupid goes viral: The Climate Zombies of the new GOP
Virtually all Republican congressional candidates criticize what they call "cap-and-tax," but how many actually deny climate change science? A lot.
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Obama: Rebuild America by slashing oil tax breaks
The president says we can create jobs by fixing the country's infrastructure but he wants to slash Big Oil tax breaks to help pay for it. Uh-oh.
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Colorado governor’s race: Hickenlooper vs. Maes vs. Tancredo
Colorado gubernatorial candidates: a mayor who's promoted biking; a Tea Partier who thinks bike-sharing is a U.N. scheme; or a third-party candidate who only talks about immigration.
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Down under and upside down
Last week, I visited the Australian state of Victoria, where the Parliament approved a bold plan by Premier John Brumby (of the Labor Party) to cut carbon emissions twenty percent below 2000 levels by 2020. His conservative opponent in the November election, Ted Baillieu of the Liberal Party, goes much farther than his national party […]
