elections
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Letter from an imprisoned activist: Time to ‘play dirty’ for the climate’s sake
Delaying a decision on Keystone XL doesn’t redeem Obama’s failure to take advantage of his opportunity to turn the tide of climate change.Photo: The White HouseIt goes without saying that politics is a dirty system. It’s so dirty that I believe there are only three reasonable approaches to politics: apathy/despair, overthrowing the system, or playing […]
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‘Going Boulder’ means voting for local energy self-reliance
Photo: Zane Selvans This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. By a razor-thin margin, Boulder, Colo., citizens gave the city a victory for energy self-reliance on Tuesday, approving two ballot measures to let the city form a municipal utility. If the city moves […]
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How to beat the Tea Party and win on clean energy
Tea Party politics have locked the U.S. into energy-policy stalemate. With the climate clock running out, is this stalemate also checkmate for Earth?
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Believing in climate change gets you votes
Here's good news if the phrase "President Bachmann" sends you into a twitching, frothing fit: For candidates on both sides of the aisle, the best vote-getting strategy is to take climate change seriously.
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Rick Santorum, the Only Consistently Anti-Environmental Candidate
Rick Santorum announced yesterday that next week, in a Western Pennsylvania coal field, he’ll announce he is running for President. The leaked announcement seems to have heavily emphasized the coal field angle, since several major outlets mentioned it prominently. On Twitter, Bill Scher asked a compelling question: “Can he win by tarring Mitt, Newt, Tim, […]
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GOP wins could throw dirt on climate and energy policy
Is it possible that climate and energy legislation could get even deader? You betcha!
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BP, other European polluters, pump money into Senate campaigns
An analysis by Climate Action Network Europe found that BP and other big polluting European companies are helping fund Senate climate zombies.
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Can conservatives ride the 'no train' to victory?
Could high-speed rail opposition determine the outcome of governor's races and stall the Obama administration's efforts to modernize our nation?
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Plurality of Americans Skeptical of Pro-Drilling Congressional Candidates
The latest NBC/WSJ poll includes a number of interesting findings. Dave Weigel and Alex Seitz-Wald both took note of BP’s extremely low favorability ratings: Indeed, the poll shows that only 6 percent have a favorable rating of BP. In the history of the NBC News/Journal poll, Saddam Hussein (3 percent), Fidel Castro (3 percent) and […]