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How much of a problem is wind-turbine noise?
Does worrying about climate change keep you up at night? Well, climate-friendly wind farms can keep you up at night too, rural Oregon residents say.
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Colorado: Denver mayor and guv candidate talks bike-sharing, light rail, and coal
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper took Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on a bike ride last week to show off B-cycle, the city's new bike-sharing program. He talks to Grist about urban mobility and his campaign for governor.
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EPA strongly reaffirms scientific basis for regulating emissions that endanger public health
The EPA denied petitions challenging the scientific basis of its finding in December 2009 that greenhouse gases endangers the health of Americans.
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Moscow forest battle boils over
Activist Evgenia Chirikova was rounded up with a number of her colleauges camped out on logging equipment following a violent demonstration in town.
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California pulls home-energy stimulus funding in PACE dispute
More fallout from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's opposition to a popular clean-energy program.
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The South has renewable energy too!
It's time for Southern senators to realize that their states have renewable energy too and they should support a renewable electricity standard.
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Making monkeys out of climate deniers
What can spider monkeys, peacocks, ostriches & sheep tell us about global warming & the climate debate on Capitol Hill? With the Senate dropping the ball on climate action & global temperatures continuing to soar, this week’s climate news is pretty depressing. So Dirty the Global Warming Denier Sock Puppet & I decided to break […]
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Delaware passes a state Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard while Congress passes the buck
While Congress was busy breaking our hearts and hopes for a clean energy future, guess what was happening in Delaware? Progress, that's what.
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Breaking the wall of climate opposition
The Senate has taken Americans on an energy and climate roller coaster over the past year as Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and others attempted to craft legislation that would increase investment in clean energy while cutting global
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Blocking the Senate should be hard work
The Senate's not working because it doesn't take any work to stop it from working -- and that's what the Republicans are interested in doing. Current rules make stopping the Senate from doing its work the easiest thing in the world to do. That's got to change.
