election 2010
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Paul LePage, new Maine guv, takes aim at the environment
This week, Paul LePage made the leap from abrasive style to corrosive substance, proposing a dramatic rollback of Maine's environmental protections.
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Climate realism: too late for what?
The elections earlier this month saw the breaching of the 2016 deadline set by NASA's Jim Hansen for global CO2 stabilization, and also moved us well beyond IPCC Chair Rajendra Pauchuari's statement that action beyond 2012 "will be too late". So where does this leave us? For what are we now, officially, too late?
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Advice for a carbon-powered Congress
At least three oracles offer a different vision for our carbon-powered Congress to follow that may result in more jobs and a faster economic recovery.
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The post-election outlook for regional cap-and-trade
It's a toxic phrase in pundit-land, but cap-and-trade is humming along in the Northeast and preparing to launch in California (and maybe other Western states). A Midwestern program is probably dead after victories by clean-energy-hostile Republicans.
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GOP climate deniers vie to run House Energy Committee
The House Energy Committee is seeing an intense leadership fight, as four different Republicans are vying to take over the influential post. The four candidates -- Reps. Fred Upton, John Shimkus, Joe Barton, and Cliff Stearns -- all want to reopen the floodgates for a deregulated fossil fuel industry. But precisely how reactionary the committee will become depends on who wins. The frontrunner Upton is the only candidate who doesn't explicitly question climate science.
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Who can fill Lisa Heinzerling's shoes?
Lisa Heinzerling's departure from the EPA's Office of Policy and Planning doesn't need to mean the winding-down of aggressive action at the EPA.
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Midterms: Green power helps Colorado buck the national trend
Wins by Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper sent a strong signal that supporting new energy and fighting global warming pollution are winning issues.
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The failed presidency of Barack Obama, post-election edition
Future generations will judge us with unimaginable harshness for our failure to address the coming global catastrophe, and justifiably so.
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The Climate Post: Earth will take 100,000 years to recover from the midterms' effects on climate
Nothing ruins the opportunity of stopping climate change like Speaker of the House John Boehner. Plus, the Leaf's batteries and Alaska's gas problem.