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New York Times Magazine profile offers lessons from activist Wayne Pacelle
Sunday’s New York Times Magazine contains a profile of Wayne Pacelle, the head of the Humane Society. In it, you will find much grist for the mental mill. Consider strategic campaigns that bring new constituencies into the fold without alienating your base, the perils and advantages of incrementalism, and effective policy changes made in the […]
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Biden spreads love with coal flacks in Va.
Remember that whole debate a few weeks ago over whether Joe Biden hearts “clean coal”? Well, here’s some photographic evidence, from an Obama-Biden rally in Suffolk, Va., last week. Images are courtesy of the coal shills themselves, from their “Behind the Plug” blog, where they wrote, “With just nine days left in the campaign, we […]
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Thefts of nuclear material worldwide ‘disturbingly high’
The number of reports of stolen nuclear material worldwide last year was “disturbingly high,” according to Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency. All together, nearly 250 such thefts were reported last year, with the main concern that the nuclear material could end up in so-called “dirty bombs.”
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Climate treaties likely to be too little, too late to save world’s reefs, study says
The successor to the international Kyoto climate-change treaty will likely do too little, and emissions reductions will be too late to save the world’s coral reefs from the ravages of global warming, according to a cheery new study by U.S. researchers. Even if the world’s nations agree to meet the ambitious emissions targets favored by […]
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A roundup of greenish news from the presidential campaign trail
• Not shocking, considering how many “clean coal” ads we’ve seen this election season, but The Wall Street Journal looks at what Big Coal is doing to make sure its industry is on the candidates’ minds this year. The coal-mining industry as a whole has given $2,640,226 to candidates this election cycle, but that’s just […]
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McCain administration might bring moderates with green cred to Washington
Who might stock McCain’s eco-cabinet? Contrary to published reports, the presidential election won’t happen until Nov. 4. Those hundreds of thousands of robo-calls, the blizzard of TV ads, or other unforeseen events could propel a Republican team to the White House, leaving President-elect John McCain to assemble a Cabinet to run the […]
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Bush administration likely to move forward on changes to new-source review
The Bush administrations is advancing plans to weaken air-pollution rules for power plants, despite House Oversight Committee Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) warning the EPA not to last week, according to The Wall Street Journal. Under “new-source review” rules as they currently stand, power plants making upgrades that would keep their facilities operating more hours each […]
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Florida governor backs conservation ballot initiative
Floridians will be asked to vote on a land conservation ballot initiative, Amendment 4, next week. At an Audubon of Florida event on Friday, the measure got some high-level support from Gov. Charlie Crist (R). “It’s a political year, I don’t know if you realize, but we have an election coming up. And there’s an […]
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The wackiest ads of this year’s election
Politico surveyed both Democratic and Republican political operatives about the most ridiculous ads of this campaign season. Several of the worst were on the theme of gas prices, including this one, for Republican Bill Cassidy, who is running for the House seat in the 6th district of Louisiana. The ad features his wife pull-starting a […]
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‘I was just reading an article in The New York Times by Michael Pollan about food’
I was just reading an article in The New York Times by Michael Pollen [sic] about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it’s creating monocultures that […]
