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Chef Dan Barber and sustainable ag expert Fred Kirschenmann set the table for a new food policy
Grist asked two gurus from the sustainable farm/food world to weigh in on the role of food in the 2008 election. Before they could get to work on their piece, Michael Pollan landed his opus in The New York Times Magazine. That sent our experts in a new direction — an op-ed as dialogue. Dan […]
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Two men convicted in Ivory Coast toxic-waste-dumping case, execs not charged
Two men were handed jail sentences of five and 20 years respectively this week for their roles in illegally dumping some 400 tons of toxic waste in populated areas of the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 2006, killing 17 and sickening tens of thousands more. All together, some 140,000 gallons of waste was dumped […]
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Who’s getting the ‘special interest’ money this election?
The presidential race isn’t the only one attracting big bucks this election season; members of Congress are getting some sizable donations too. The Center for Responsive Politics has been keeping tabs on it all. Here’s how some environment-related sectors have been spending their cash this year. Energy and natural resource sector: $58,519,935, this election cycle, […]
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Palin can’t name a single man-made cause of climate change
Sarah Palin has now offered a variety of views on climate change. When asked about her changing rhetoric on the issue at the VP debate, Palin said, “There is something to be said also for man’s activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.” She added, “I don’t want to argue about […]
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Crist says McCain is a ‘strong proponent of climate change’
“He’s been such a strong proponent of climate change, and we all know how important the environment is to our fellow Floridians.” — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R), referring to Republican presidential candidate John McCain on a recent conference call
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With backing from enviros, Rep. Tom Udall vies for Senate seat in New Mexico
Tom Udall. New Mexico Democrat Tom Udall is battling for a vacant Senate seat in a race that enviros are watching closely this year — just like his cousin in Colorado. Republican New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici is retiring this year, and Udall is facing Republican Rep. Steve Pearce in a contest to fill the […]
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Fate of House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming up in the air
The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, created by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the start of the 110th Congress, is set to dissolve at the end of the month, reports The Hill. The authority and the funding granted to the committee expires at the end of next week, and it’s […]
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Short-term cost assessment skews the CW on carbon regulations
Joe says Andy Revkin’s article on the candidates’ climate plans is reasonably fair, and I suppose I agree. It’s fair as a representation of conventional wisdom, if not particularly accurate as a representation of reality. (That’s not Revkin’s fault — claiming one side in a dispute is correct, while both the other side and the […]
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Regulating CO2 via the EPA would be a hugely significant move for the next president
Kate says: The Wall Street Journal spazzes out about Obama adviser Jason Grumet’s assertion that a President Obama would fight climate change under the Clean Air Act if Congress doesn’t move to address the issue within 18 months. In what may be a historical first, I actually think the WSJ editorial board is right about […]
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U.S. agrees to debt-for-nature swap to preserve Peru rainforests
In a bid to preserve some of Peru’s biologically diverse rainforests, the United States agreed this week to a $25 million debt-for-nature swap with the country, Peru’s second since 2002. Over the next seven years, in exchange for erasing millions of their debt, Peru will fund local non-governmental organizations dedicated to protecting tropical rain forests […]
