economic recovery
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Why does the American public suddenly believe in climate change less?
In the U.S., belief in human-caused climate change has dropped off considerably since 2008 or so. People have come up with some pretty baroque theories around this, but the explanation seems simple enough: the economy has been in the tank and partisanship has been on the rise.
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Why deficit hysteria isn’t good for food-system reform
The Beltway has been overcome by a wave of deficit hysteria. That may spell doom for farm subsidies -- but it can only hurt the effort to reform the food system.
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Stimulus money brings an Indiana city back from the brink
Eighteen months ago, the city of Kokomo, Ind., was one of those American Rust Belt towns that looked like it was clanking toward irreversible decay. Today the community of some 45,000 people is revitalized and renewed, thanks to an infusion of federal stimulus money and a variety of economic strategies.
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Anatomy of a Senate climate bill death
Ryan Lizza's recent New Yorker piece provides an interesting insider view of the rise and fall of climate legislation in the Senate. But Lizza gives short shrift to the real reasons Senate passage of climate legislation was impossible in 2010: the deep recession, unified and uncompromising opposition in the Senate, and big spending by oil, coal, and other energy interests. Let's take a close look at these factors.
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Getting past "ruin porn" in Detroit [VIDEO]
A series of short films shows Detroit not as a shell of the past, but as an incubator of the future.
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California's landmark climate law: Job killer or creator?
Proposition 23 proponents claim AB 32 will kill jobs and California should wait until unemployment rates drops to 5.5 percent. Is there truth to that?
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Does the RES stand a chance?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may still try to pass a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). Does it have a shot, or will Republicans pull the football?
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Creating 625,000 jobs and saving $64 billion through energy efficiency
A major new report finds that a straightforward set of policies aimed at upgrading just 40 percent of the residential and commercial building stock in the United States would create 625,000 sustained full-time jobs over a decade and spark $500 billion in
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The fate of mass transit in an age of deficit hysteria
As deficit hysteria mounts, the bad economy is derailing what little green infrastructure we have. Now it's really time for greens to get active in the economic-policy debate, or risk being stuck with outdated technologies like the car.