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Watch this cringe-worthy clip of Vice President Mike Pence dodging a climate question
Jake Tapper tries repeatedly to get Pence to answer a simple question.
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Watch out, Big Oil. Jay Inslee’s back at it again with a greenhouse gas fee.
Adding to his growing stack of policies aimed at averting the climate crisis, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, one of the 23 Democrats running for president, announced Monday the fourth part of his Climate Mission: the Freedom from Fossil Fuels plan.
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This North Carolina lawmaker is trying to slam the brakes on wind. Again.
A bill that passed the North Carolina Senate earlier this month would bar wind projects from being developed along the coast for three years.
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Oregon Republicans go into hiding to avoid voting on climate bill
Police are chasing them down, and a scary militia has offered the senators refuge.
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Can climate change be stopped? Here’s what the Democratic presidential candidates say.
Leave it to a politician to figure out the right way to answer an unanswerable question.
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Trump’s climate ‘plan’ is finally here, and it’s already headed to court
The Affordable Clean Energy Plan finalizes the rollback of Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
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The group that pushed the Green New Deal sets its sights on 2020 and beyond
Grist sat down with Executive Director Varshini Prakash to discuss the Green New Deal and the Democratic candidates.
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Florida’s summer of slime turned its politics upside down
Florida’s summer of slime turned its politics upside down.
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Mess with a Texas pipeline now and you could end up a felon
Texas now has one of the harshest laws in the country to protect its oil and gas operations.
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On the road to the Green New Deal, New York’s latest climate legislation may be the first stop
The Climate and Community Protection Act is poised to be one of the nation's most ambitious attempts to tackle both climate change and environmental injustice.