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How Obama could make housing policy greener
On Tuesday, the Obama administration is holding a large summit on how to reshape federal housing policy and eventually offload mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the government bailed out in 2008. It'll be a Very Serious event in which the health of the economy gets top billing and the health of the planet will be lucky to get even a passing mention.
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A climate policy for people and the environment
A well-designed climate policy could slash greenhouse emissions and put money in Americans' pockets -- but that's not what Congress is considering.
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If killer weather is in our future, can we get better at predicting it?
NOAA reports that the planet has just been through the warmest January-to-July period on record.
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Smoggy senators protest EPA plan to save thousands of children’s lives
In a startling act of fealty to polluter interests, several senators are fighting scientifically guided smog limits that would save thousands of lives a year.
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The other new EPA rules that could threaten coal plants
There are a number of things brewing at the EPA that are making coal utility executives nervous.
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The two biggest (non-CO2) threats to coal power from the EPA
EPA is working furiously on clean-air rules, and coal-dominated utilities are terrified. Some of the oldest, dirtiest coal plants will be shut down.
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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.
