Senate
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![Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) attends the Oceana's Coastal Voices Summit at George Washington University on January 26, 2016.]()
![Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) attends the Oceana's Coastal Voices Summit at George Washington University on January 26, 2016.]()
Senator: Climate is a winning issue, and Dems are missing out
Sheldon Whitehouse talks protecting our oceans, questioning Scott Pruitt, and forcing his party to rally around fighting warming
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Senator clears humans of climate change using acclaimed scientific journalWatch Sen. James Inhofe cite the Bible to prove that humans aren't causing climate change.
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![The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota in this undated photograph released on January 18, 2012.]()
![The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota in this undated photograph released on January 18, 2012.]()
Senate Democrats plan to kneecap the GOP’s Keystone bill
The newly weakened Senate Democratic caucus is trying to muster all the opposition it can to the impending vote on the Keystone XL pipeline.
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The federal government wants to pay for your electric bicycle
Electric bikes and electric motorcycles are awesome. They help you go up hills. They help you reach your destination with a minimum of armpit sweat. And they do this while dumping less carbon into atmosphere than their gas-powered equivalents. (Yes, there is such thing as a gas-powered bicycle. Yah. It’s stupid. We know.) The only […]
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This crazy bill could eliminate Arizona’s ability to do any environmental work
The Arizona House is about to vote on a totally insane bill that could prevent that state from doing even the tiniest smidgen of environmentally friendly work. Solar and wind projects that used a dollar of government funding would be made illegal. State universities could have to stop all sustainability-related research. State buildings wouldn’t even […]
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Critical List: Senate voted against Keystone XL; CSA delivery by sailboat
The Senate voted against approving Keystone XL. Japan has almost shut down its nuclear industry; next month only one out of 54 reactors will be working. Those affected by the BP oil spill could get 60 percent of the settlement money they’re owed as soon as a new program to pay out claims is set […]
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Critical List: Solar storm to hit today; the U.S. is a net exporter of petroleum products
Solar storm a-comin’! Batten down the planet! Seriously, it’s today and it’s supposed to be the strongest in six years, which is confusing because the one two months ago was supposed to be the strongest in seven years and how does THAT work? Anyway, it could “disrupt power grids, satellites, oil pipelines, and high-accuracy GPS […]
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Critical List: The gas boom scam; Bieber’s electric car
In Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell looks at “the scam behind the gas boom.” What really makes money for a natural gas company? “Buying and flipping the land that contains the gas,” Goodell reports. A team of scientists has discovered how to use wastewater’s bacteria to create electricity. For his 18th birthday Justin Bieber received (among […]
