climate bill
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Time is running out for Cuomo to make New York’s ambitious climate law a reality
If the New York governor doesn’t act now, the state’s widely hailed emissions-reduction law won’t go into effect for at least another year.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander on making bipartisan energy progress
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) tells Grist why he's crossing party lines to slash energy company subsidies and pour money into cleantech research.
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Everyone thinks Obama is doing a bad job on the environment
Yale Environment 360 asked a series of environmental thinkers, activists, and policymakers what they think of Barack Obama's record on the environmental record so far. The overwhelming response was that they didn't think very much of it at all.
Here’s climate writer and activist Bill McKibben:
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Critical List: Financial assistance for cooling costs down; Atlanta's trees are dying
Stuck in a heat wave? Can't afford A/C? Too bad: Groups that dole out government assistance for cooling have had their funding cut and have turned away up to 80 percent of applicants.
Today's the first anniversary of the climate bill's death.
Atlanta loves trees! It charges $1,000 to chop one down. But drought, storms, invasive species, and natural causes get to kill trees for free, and they’re are all contributing to a large-scale die-off. -
Nisbet is wrong: the forces of climate progress are not as strong as their foes
Who’s the giant in this scenario?In his Climate Shift report, Matt Nisbet purports to compare the lobbying efforts of climate-bill supporters and opponents. He finds that, in 2009, the former spent $394 million and the latter $259 million. In other words, greens and their allies outspent their opponents. “The narrative [that] this is David versus […]
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Dr. Grist’s four-part prescription for managing climate change
Dr. Grist fills in the blanks.We are not going to solve climate change. That’s not pessimism — it’s just not the kind of thing that can be “solved.” It’s already underway. There’s enough carbon stocked in the atmosphere to keep the temperature going up for decades even if we cease polluting entirely, which isn’t going […]
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What mistakes did the progressive environmental community make in the climate bill fight?
The pro-action side made a number of mistakes, as I’ve said many times. Here are three: Failure to create a grassroots movement that could seriously cost an opposing politician (as, say, the NRA can). Messaging flaws, especially by Obama, who simply didn’t use the bully pulpit to make his case to the public. Inadequate Senate […]
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Opponents of climate bill far outspent environmentalists, according to Climate Shift data
The data suggest opponents of climate legislation far outspent environmentalists during debate over the bill in 2009 and 2010: 8-to-1 on lobbying in 2009 4-to 1 (or more) on advertising in 2009 8-to-1 in donations to candidates and Congress members in 2010 cycle 10-to-1 on independent election expenditures in 2010 I am basing those numbers […]
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Is blindness on clean air, climate change, and public health contagious?
Some 123 members of the House of Representatives have cosponsored bills to strip the EPA of its authority on the Clean Air Act.