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Breaking: The Onion is funny
What's the only thing worse than an oil spill? A non-spill. "Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe," The Onion reports.
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From Big Energy to Congress, the money pipeline never closes
A new website lets us follow the prodigious flow of cash from oil companies to the politicians who do their bidding.
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Barack Obama, cleantech venture capitalist?
Mike Dorning of Bloomberg Businessweek has a clever way of looking at the nation's most powerful cleantech investor.
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The fate of mass transit in an age of deficit hysteria
As deficit hysteria mounts, the bad economy is derailing what little green infrastructure we have. Now it's really time for greens to get active in the economic-policy debate, or risk being stuck with outdated technologies like the car.
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USDA wants us to 'know your farmer,' FDA wants us to stay home
A new federal law went into effect last month, supposedly designed to reduce the risk of Salmonella enteritidis contamination, which requires farms with more than 3,000 hens to abide by strict sanitation practices, including keeping customers out of the chicken houses. Is there something they don't want us to see?
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Colorado Tea Party candidate struggles to explain U.N.-bicycle conspiracy
Colorado gov Tea Party candidate Dan Maes has argued that Denver's bike-share program is a plan for converting Denver into a UN community. Maes appeared on MSNBC to explain
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Dirty Energy Money Fuels Congress
As Congress begins August recess, those of us who care about America’s addiction to oil, climate change, and a clean energy future have been scratching our heads (or kicking the walls), wondering why, after historic levels of pressure we can’t even pass an oil spill response bill, not to mention a real clean energy or […]
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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.
