Newt Gingrich
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Newt’s win in South Carolina bodes well for climate
Newt Gingrich defied cynicism and tapped into voter anger to win South Carolina. That's what it will take to achieve large-scale climate solutions, too.
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On cleantech, no Newt is good Newt
No single politician since Ronald Reagan has done more to set back America’s leadership in clean technology than Newt Gingrich.
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Old dog, Newt tricks: Gingrich’s views on climate, EPA, and ‘green conservatism’
Gingrich has been all over the map on climate change. Catch the highlights and revisit his 2010 interview with Grist.
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Newt Gingrich thinks riding the subway is for fancy people
Not that this is the most ridiculous Gingrich news in the last few days or anything, but it’s pretty amusing: Evidently “metro-riding” is the Gingrich equivalent of “arugula-eating.” “Those who, you know, live in high-rise apartment buildings writing for fancy newspapers in the middle of town after they ride the metro, who don’t understand that […]
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Newt Gingrich, ‘amateur paleontologist,’ knows science better than you
Sure, there's overwhelming consensus among climate scientists (and scientists in a host of other fields) that climate change is for realsies. These are people with doctoral degrees, decades of experience, high-end instrumentation, and mountains of data -- but are any of them amateur paleontologists? Newt Gingrich is, and that means he knows they're wrong, and so there.
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Gingrich thinks Palin would be a darned fine energy secretary
Newt Gingrich told conservative activists on Wednesday that Sarah “Drill Baby Drill” Palin would be an ideal candidate for secretary of energy. “I can’t imagine anybody who would do a better job of driving us to an energy solution than Gov. Palin, for example,” Gingrich said during a conference call hosted by Ralph Reed’s Faith […]
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Critical List: EPA releases draft fracking report; Gingrich’s new climate change book
The EPA released a draft of its fracking report and found chemical contamination in a gas field well. The draft summary says that "EPA is concerned about the movement of contaminants within the aquifer and the safety of drinking water wells over time." The U.S. got a little warm and fuzzy about a climate roadmap […]
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Mitt vs. Mitt, flip-flopping on climate change and much else
A new ad from the Democratic National Committee is pummeling Mitt Romney for his extensive record of flip-floppery on global warming and so much more:
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Newt Gingrich will never be president; I will never stop loving this video
Remember Al Gore’s “We” campaign on climate change? Boy that was a game-changer, wasn’t it? Sigh. However, it did leave us with at least one delightful cultural curio, namely this commercial with Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich sitting on a couch, talking nice about climate change: I never get tired of it! Newt Gingrich will […]