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The Climate Post: Climate bill finally dead enough to be fondly remembered
Read more about climate legislation attacks, new Chinese innovations, water wars, and more.
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China plays dirty with clean energy: a good thing?
China's been kicking our butt lately in the clean energy business. But they haven't exactly been playing fair. Now labor unions are screaming.
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Stupid goes viral: Climate Zombies in Iowa, Missouri, Utah, Vermont, and Washington
I'm tracking Climate Zombies: every Republican candidate for House, Senate, and Governor who claims that global warming is a hoax, doubts the science of climate change, and wants a new Dark Ages for America.
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Needed: A 50-state strategy on climate
Low-population states often play host to one-issue activists hired by national campaigns. Local grassroots groups could yield much better results.
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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.
