legislation
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He helped pass a historic EJ bill. But he’s just getting started.
An architect of anti-polluting policies on why New Jersey’s latest law is important — and why it’s still not enough.
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Green groups say it’s high time for Dems to condemn fracking
A new energy bill will set the stage for future environmental battles.
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California is playing defense under Trump
Xavier Becerra, the state's attorney general, has become the face of its resistance.
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Our Lunch Counter Moment
â“Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move; The thunder is the thunder of the floes, The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring. Thank God our time is now when wrong Comes up to face us everywhere, Never to leave us […]
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House transit bill so bad even Republicans don’t like it
The transportation bill currently making its way through the House of Representatives sure does suck. It strips funds from safe streets projects and public transit, and dumps that money on highways instead. Which is all more or less what we’ve come to expect of GOP-sponsored bills — except this one’s so bad it’s even alienating […]
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Missouri puts payoff of local power in peril
The Missouri legislature's move to jeopardize the state's renewable energy standard misses the huge economic benefits of local clean energy.
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Smart ALEC: How corporations screw you over behind closed doors
The American Legislative Exchange Council gives corporations a chance to help ghostwrite legislation that benefits them.
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Bolivia reads Mother Nature her rights
Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, has already made great strides in medicine: He’s the one who discovered that chickens turn you gay. Now he’s applying that innovation to legislation, saving the environment by declaring nature to have rights equal to people. The law would act as a bill of rights for nature, including the right […]
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Giffords has environmental cred
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the victim of an assassination attempt on Saturday that killed six, isn't just smart and tough (there's hope she'll pull through despite serious injury). She also has environmental credentials.