climate bill
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The Climate Post: Primaries move GOP to the right (on climate)
Read about the GOP primary results, new sources of green energy, upcoming climate change impacts, Dilbert, and more.
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What climate activists need to learn from the NRA and the gun-control wars
The gun lobby has won battles by energizing its small membership base, influencing the outcome of elections, and employing bare-knuckled tactics.
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Death by Growth: what the climate-bill autopsies missed
By now the corpse of the climate bill has been so thoroughly autopsied, that examining it any further seems almost inhumane. A whole army of coroners have weighed in, suggesting an array of possible causes of death: Republican obstructionism, failed presidential leadership, a weak climate movement, the wrong policy approach, the recession. Each one of […]
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The Climate Post: First They Came For The Bill; Now, the EPA
First things first: Some environmental groups are giving up, for now, on a cap and trade bill. Sen. Dick Lugar predicted that the EPA, which is moving forward on efforts to curtail emissions of greenhouse gasses via its rule-making authority, would see a “rebellion” that would lead to its powers being “substantially curtailed.” Some of […]
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Can the climate bill's death help build a living climate movement?
Environmentalists who want to solve the climate crisis need to stop using institutional barriers and opponents' unfair tactics as an excuse for failure, and instead build a grassroots movement that can overcome both. Such a grassroots movement must put forth exciting, attractive policies to fight climate chaos, rather than limp, pre-compromised proposals nobody can work up enthusiasm for.
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An open letter to all people and organizations working to combat global warming
Bill McKibben, Billy Parish, and other activists want to hear from you about the best ways to move forward in the fight against climate change.
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Meanwhile, back at the global negotiations
The bad news is that the climate/energy push just crashed and burned in the Senate. The good news is that, in the wake of that crash, the U.S. climate community is having a Big Think, one of the best in years. The last time we had such an exchange was back after what, for lack of a better term, I will call the Copenhagen Disappointment. Which raises an interesting question -- do we only debate, openly and seriously, after we lose?
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The Climate Post: Beating a dead climate horse
Read about the shape of the 2010 wind market, world pessimism about the U.S., activists turning to issues besides the climate bill, and more.
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Why did the climate bill die? Because we still don’t have a real climate movement
Why did climate legislation fail? The absence of pressure from Americans across the country demanding that serious action be taken.