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Obama folks trumpet meeting with enviros in new video
The Obama transition team just released a video of their energy and environment working group meeting with leaders of several major environmental groups to discuss the transition plan the groups have put forward. In the video, you’ll see Mark Tercek, president of The Nature Conservancy; World Wildlife Fund president Carter Roberts; Kevin Curtis, deputy director […]
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BREAKING!
Al Gore still not running for president ready to accept a job in a presidential administration. We’ll keep you updated on new developments in Gore’s unwavering, years-long refusal to get back in government as they unfold!
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NYT columnist makes a late bid for dumbest paragraph of the year
It’s widely agreed that Bill Kristol’s tenure as a New York Times op-ed columnist has been a fiasco — not for Kristol, whose flat-footed, me-too hackery is old news, but for the Gray Lady, who showed the extraordinary bad judgment to pick him. Most of Kristol’s stuff is instantly forgettable, but yesterday brought what I […]
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Christie Todd Whitman
I got a bit lost in the rush, but I hope everyone got a chance to read Jonathan Hiskes’ interview with Christie Todd Whitman on Friday.
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Scientists call for cleanup of Chesapeake Bay
Marking the 25th anniversary of a pact between local, state, and federal agencies to clean up Chesapeake Bay near Washington, D.C., a group of scientists on Monday called for a brand new plan to save the fragile area, arguing that the largely voluntary $6 billion plan now in place has done little to solve the […]
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Canadian oil sands projects polluting aquifers, report says
The massive, energy-intensive oil sands projects in Alberta, Canada, are leaking some 2.9 million gallons of contaminated water each day into the region’s aquifers, according to a new report by Environmental Defense and Pembina Consulting based on the industry’s own estimates. “Virtually everyone close to the tar sands industry knows that all tar sands tailings […]
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Memo to President-elect Barack Obama on democratizing the energy system
Dear President-elect Obama, Congratulations on your historic election. Now the truly heavy lifting begins. You have declared your intention to make "a new energy economy" your "No. 1 priority." We urge you to follow a path that leads not only to changes in the fuels underpinning our energy system but also to changes in the […]
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Praying for a bailout in Detroit
Lordy: Pentecostal Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, who shared the sanctuary’s wide altar with three gleaming sport utility vehicles, closed his sermon by leading the choir and congregants in a boisterous rendition of the gospel singer Myrna Summers’s “We’re Gonna Make It” as hundreds of worshipers who work in the automotive industry — union assemblers, […]
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Stephen Johnson defends Bush as ‘pro-environmental’
“The president is really a very pro-environmental person. When we first talked, he used the phrase which is precisely, philosophically, where I’ve always been at EPA. He said, ‘Steve, I want you to accelerate the pace of environmental protection while maintaining our nation’s economic competitiveness.'” — Stephen Johnson, EPA administrator
