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  • Where do your senators stand on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill?

    Get involved in the fight against climate change. The Senate is finally getting to work on climate legislation, months after the House passed its own bill. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) are pushing forward their Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Do your senators support the bill, and action against climate […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • Barrasso seeks to block intelligence on climate change threat

    Last year, Thomas Fingar, then the U.S. intelligence community’s top analyst, warned that climate change is among the gravest threats to U.S. national security (see here).  This year, John Warner, the former (GOP) chair of the Senate Armed Services committee has been repeating the same warning to anyone who would listen (see here). But some […]

    Joseph Romm Politics

  • AEI compares EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to Clint Eastwood

    In a bizarre pop-culture flip-flop, Kenneth Green of the American Enterprise Institute has compared the mild-mannered EPA administrator to Dirty Harry: You can just see Jackson standing there with a .44 magnum in her hand, and a steely glint in her eye, telling industry “You’ve got to ask yourself one question, ‘do I feel lucky?’ […]

    Joseph Romm Politics

  • Ahnold promises ‘action’ at California climate summit

    Photo: Peter GrigsbyGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his best buddies from around the world flexed their muscles at the second annual Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles this week. Actor Harrison Ford, chimp expert Jane Goodall, and a slate of A-list dignitaries from 70 countries packed a Century City luxury hotel to debate how best to […]

    Janet Wilson Politics

  • Reparations for Climate Chaos

    Remember when the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and International Monetary Fund were constantly making global headlines for their fierce opposition from people’s movements around the world? Well, international Finance Institutions (including the World Bank) are rearing their ugly heads again — this time with the U.N. as their vehicle. Today, more than 50 […]

    Joshua Kahn Russell Politics

  • ‘No compromise’ faction attacks climate bill

    Courtesy Climate SOSGlobal warming activists endorsed by the preeminent climatologist James Hansen are working to defeat the climate and energy bill in Congress, and they’re using some provocative stunts to spread their message. Briefly: Activists handed out fake $2 trillion bills at a rally for climate legislation in New York last week, criticizing the size […]

    Jonathan Hiskes Politics

  • The Climate Post: Gentlemen, start your lawsuits

    First Things First: The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a regulation that if approved would force the largest industrial emitters, including utilities, energy-intensive manufacturing, and refineries, to invest in the cleanest available technology for new projects or major renovations. The announcement’s potential importance overshadowed the nearly simultaneous official release of the Clean Energy Jobs and American […]

    Eric Roston Politics

  • War is peace; chemical ag is sustainable ag

    “… I will mention that I support organic and sustainable agriculture. In fact, Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution and from my home state of Iowa, is credited for creating a sustainable agriculture system decades ago.” — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), in a blustery, error-laden attack on Bryan Walsh’s Time Magazine article “The Real […]

    Tom Philpott Politics

  • Big Pork and Sen. Grassley: the Danes want you to know your hogs don’t need endless antibiotics

    Must we be dosed daily with antobiotics? According to the meat industry, the debate over legislation pending in the House that would ban the use of sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics comes down to a simple “fact”: hog-farming on any scale without sub-therapeutic use of antibiotics is impossible. The National Pork Producers Council says so. The […]

    Tom Laskawy Politics

  • CEJAPA is Kerry’s bill

    Here’s how the first line of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act [PDF] begins: “Mr. KERRY (for himself and Mrs. BOXER) introduced the following bill …” See whose name is first there? It’s not “Mr. Kerry and Mrs. Boxer introduced” either. He’s introducing it. This is John Kerry’s bill. Boxer has signed on […]

    David Roberts Politics