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General Electric fights for change from the inside … of a coal industry front group!
All of us who want to see the world changed for the better struggle with whether it is better to fight for that change from the inside or the outside. But you can’t fight for change from inside an organization dedicated to stopping change, like, say, the scandal-ridden front group American Coalition for Clean Coal […]
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Can Obama deliver health and energy security with a half (assed) message?
September 6, 2009 Here’s a quiz: 1) What’s worse from a messaging perspective, “the public option” or “cap-and-trade”? 2) Tell me in one sentence what team Obama says is the benefit of passing a health care reform bill. 3) Tell me in one sentence what team Obama says happens if we fail to pass the […]
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Japan’s new prime minister promises ambitious cuts in CO2 emissions
Japan’s new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, has promised to make ambitious cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, months before world leaders meet for crucial climate change talks. Hatoyama, who will take office next week, said Japan would seek to reduce CO2 emissions by 25% below 1990 levels by 2020, but said the target would be contingent […]
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Obama Labor Day Speech
September 8, 2009 President Obama delivered a rip roaring speech yesterday in Cincinnati (text and videos here). It’s how he should have been messaging all along. Even though it focused on health care and the economy, Obama talked about clean energy, as always does: And we’re making an historic commitment to innovation–much of it […]
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Big Food’s ‘Smart Choices’ label raises eyebrows at the FDA
“Smart Choice”–where’s the hole in this logic?Zanastardust/FlickrYou don’t need to be a nutritionist with an advanced degree to know that Froot Loops only qualifies as a “Smart Choice” on Planet Kellogg’s. But as the NYT told us over the weekend, if you are a nutritionist at a prestigious university’s nutrition school, you just might think […]
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Climate and dirty-energy groups were busy over summer vacation
National lawmakers did next to nothing about climate change over the August congressional recess, but climate activists and their fossil-fuel foes were busy. Here are highlights from their summer antics: Clean-energy activists at a Maine rally.Photo: 1Sky The climate activists The Alliance for Climate Protection’s Repower America campaign and the Blue Green Alliance kicked off […]
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‘What I did on my summer vacation’ — by Congress
Let’s hope Congress is ready to get to work on a climate bill…Tonya Ricks for GristWhile most Americans spent August working, taking Facebook quizzes, or using some of our hard-won vacation days (we get 17 days a year, on average), members of Congress spent the month on recess. They tacked on a chunk of September […]
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Labor Day of Infamy
How easy to be cynical on this Labor Day, and declare it a day that will live in infamy for coal miners and coalfield residents and green job advocates across the nation. But thanks to United Mine workers like Terry Steele, and West Virginia military veterans like Chris Carey, and green job advocates like Van […]
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Honoring Van Jones by reaffirming who we are
In his decade-long obsession with Dr. Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover revealed himself as one of American history’s most reprehensible figures. Feeding on a stew of racism and anti-communism, Hoover used his considerable power as FBI Director to try to torment King into leaving public life. His tactics were noxious – illegally taping King […]
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Talking about Van Jones
The resignation of President Obama’s green jobs adviser was touched on during several of the TV networks’ Sunday morning political gabfests. Here are the relevant excerpts: NBC’s “Meet the Press“ HOST DAVID GREGORY: Another domestic matter — Van Jones, who has been an advisor to the White House on environmental policy, resigned overnight because of […]
