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'Environmentalism' can never address climate change
There's been a lot of talk lately about what went wrong on the climate bill, but it's always struck me that the original wrong turn was the introduction of climate change to American politics as an "environmental issue." It is the mother of all framing errors -- the one from which all others flow.
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Can the climate bill's death help build a living climate movement?
Environmentalists who want to solve the climate crisis need to stop using institutional barriers and opponents' unfair tactics as an excuse for failure, and instead build a grassroots movement that can overcome both. Such a grassroots movement must put forth exciting, attractive policies to fight climate chaos, rather than limp, pre-compromised proposals nobody can work up enthusiasm for.
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An open letter to all people and organizations working to combat global warming
Bill McKibben, Billy Parish, and other activists want to hear from you about the best ways to move forward in the fight against climate change.
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Take Action: Some In Congress Spreading Misinformation About Coal Ash
Coal ash contains numerous poisonous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and aluminum. So why are some members of Congress wanting to block action from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson that would protect people from toxic coal ash? It’s true – 139 House members and 36 Senators either signed […]
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School lunch reform act creeps toward passage
The "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act" has passed the Senate. But time is running out.
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Why won’t Team Obama save a clean-energy program from Fannie and Freddie?
The Obama administration has taken modest measures to help rescue a promising clean-energy finance tool, but it hasn't put its top people on the case. If it did, there's reason to think PACE could be quickly restored.
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The Climate Post: Beating a dead climate horse
Read about the shape of the 2010 wind market, world pessimism about the U.S., activists turning to issues besides the climate bill, and more.
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A climate 'Plan B' for team Obama
Congress has failed to act on climate once again, but here are several ways President Obama can use his executive powers to combat climate change.
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Why did the climate bill die? Because we still don’t have a real climate movement
Why did climate legislation fail? The absence of pressure from Americans across the country demanding that serious action be taken.
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So what happens when you dump 2 million gallons of toxic chemicals into the ocean?
Democrats were skeptical on Capitol Hill as senators heard sunny testimony about the whereabouts of all that Gulf oil and the impact of the Corexit that was used to disperse it. Meanwhile, longtime Gulf fisherman are alarmed by the strange sights they're seeing out there on the fishing grounds. Said one: "All the sea life is trying to get out of the water."
