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Poll: Democrats are getting worried about climate change. Republicans? Not so much.
Since 2013, the portion of Democrats who consider climate change a “major threat” has risen by 26 percentage points. Across the aisle, Republican opinions on the matter remain relatively unchanged.
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Voters hate gas taxes. Here’s how California beat the odds.
Three big takeaways from California beating the odds on gas taxes.
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![A voter casts his ballot during a special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District special election at St. Bede's Episcopal Church on June 20, 2017 in Tucker, Georgia.]()
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Don’t blame Hurricane Michael victims for voting for climate deniers
It's not necessarily true that Hurricane Michael victims are voting for climate deniers. Some may not have a chance to vote in the first place.
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Floridians who missed voter registration deadline because of Hurricane Michael are out of luck
Several civil rights groups have filed an injunction against the state, which refuses to further extend the registration deadline despite issuing mass evacuations.
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Inside the manipulative, tricky, devious, world-saving plan of the Environmental Voter Project
Relying on tools of behavioral psychology, a get-out-the-vote effort urges environmentalists to the polls -- and barely mentions the environment at all.
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Bernie Sanders tells Bill Maher: Climate change is young people’s issue, and mine, too
Progressive presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he's going to reach out to young voters by emphasizing his calls for climate action.
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2014 Climate Movement Strategy
What should be the objectives of the US-based climate movement in 2014? Over the past few years, since the death in 2010 of cap-and-trade legislation in the US Senate and the emergence a year later of a broadly-based noKXL movement, there’s been an upturn in successful working unity among many of the groups that make […]
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Will Obama’s Poll Decline Finally Break the Silence on Climate?
Four years ago, when Barack Obama was running against John McCain for the Presidency and when the climate crisis was not as severe as it has become, both Obama and McCain were in agreement that 1) it existed and 2) action should be taken on it. As importantly, they both spoke about this issue throughout […]
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Ask to grind: Your questions for presidential candidates
Just before the next GOP showdown in Arizona, we asked Grist readers to help us come up with presidential debate questions that don't suck. You delivered in spades.
