Prop 23
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Welcome to the real climate war: Big Oil versus the Terminator
The big news is the upset victory of Tea Partier Christine O'Donnell in Delaware. But the real war over climate change is being waged in the states.
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Texas and three other states threaten to sue California over AB 32
Texas and three other states with attorneys general beholden to Dirty Oil have vowed to sue California as a last-ditch effort to kill AB 32.
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Senators renew efforts to rein in EPA on regulating greenhouse gases
Well, that didn't take long. Congress is barely back in town and already there's talk of yet another attempt to rein in the EPA.
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Congress is back, but can it really pass a Renewable Electricity Standard?
Congress comes back to Washington this week and there's talk that it might actually get serious about setting a national clean energy goal.
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Carly Fiorina was for climate and energy legislation before she was against it
Last week, Carly Fiorina waffled on whether she supported the landmark climate and clean energy legislation that Prop 23 would kill, since, she supported cap-and-trade during the presidential campaign. Now the GOP Senate candidate has completed her flip-flop to full support for the dirty energy proposition funded by Big Oil.
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California's Prop 23 is bad news for Latino families
Proposition 23 will threaten all Californians' health and safety. But the Latino community will suffer disproportionate harm from a repeal of AB 32.
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Down under and upside down
Last week, I visited the Australian state of Victoria, where the Parliament approved a bold plan by Premier John Brumby (of the Labor Party) to cut carbon emissions twenty percent below 2000 levels by 2020. His conservative opponent in the November election, Ted Baillieu of the Liberal Party, goes much farther than his national party […]
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Carly Fiorina fumbles on Prop 23 issue during California Senate debate
In her first debate with Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina couldn't give a straightforward answer to the simple question of whether she supported Prop 23.
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Koch brothers jump into Prop 23 fight
A company controlled by the billionaire Koch brothershas donated $1 million to the campaign to suspend California's global-warming law.