The Climate Desk
In This Series
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Chamber of Commerce goes after climate dissenters in its ranks
A split over climate policy is brewing within the US Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber is already working behind the scenes to discredit the new group
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Andrew Revkin on the collapse of climate legislation [AUDIO]
New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin on what happened to climate legislation and what might come next, via PBS's "Need to Know."
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The Gulf's invisible villain: natural gas
You can't see or smell the methane that poured into the ocean with the oil, but experts say it's stealthily destroying marine life.
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How Reid's parliamentary maneuvering could doom reforms to the oil industry
The Sen. majority leader may block amendments to an oil reform bill, endangering a bipartisan priority in order to prevent efforts to sideline the EPA
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Senate energy package: Wait, it gets worse!
The Democrats are planning to put forward a very tiny, weak energy package. Here's what we know is going to be in the package.
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BP's secret ticket request line
For more than a decade, BP has operated a hush-hush phone line that California lawmakers can call to request box seats to NBA games and concerts at the Sacramento stadium named after its West Coast subsidiary.
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A conversation with pro-drilling environmentalist Amanda Little [AUDIO]
Amanda LittleAlison Stewart of PBS’s Need to Know speaks with Amanda Little, a Grist contributor and self-proclaimed “pro-drilling environmentalist.” Little describes her personal experience on an offshore oil rig, her argument for continuing offshore drilling, and her optimistic belief that American ingenuity can solve our energy problems. Little is the author of Power Trip: From […]
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Is the population bomb ever going to explode? [AUDIO]
Environmentalists and human-rights advocates regularly point to a growing world population as a potential source of strife. But one environmental journalist doesn’t agree. Fred Pearce, author of The Coming Population Crash, argues that fears of a population explosion are overblown. His recent post on Grist sparked a sharp rebuttal from Robert Walker, executive vice president […]
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BP whistleblower: ‘They just don’t know who they’re messing with’
If you’ve been reading Mother Jones lately, you’ve heard about BP’s stranglehold on media access in the Gulf, which has included preventing reporters from visiting oil-soaked public beaches and barring its spill cleanup workers from talking to the press. Now, one of BP’s ex-media enforcers is speaking out. Former BP contractor Adam Dillon went public […]
