South Carolina
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As Florence’s flooding ebbs, Carolina residents choose fight or flight
Instead of adapting to climate change, we're reacting to it. And that's exacerbating inequality.
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Florence is the worst flood in East Coast history. Here’s how locals describe it.
Reflections from those who evacuated, those who stayed, and those who are trying to get back.
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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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Putting the wilderness back in our cities
Neil Chambers’ new book, Urban Green: Architecture for the Future, is a study in imprecision. Ankle deep and a mile wide, the book reads like a half-baked primer in green design and conservation science. It could have used another year or two in the oven. It’s too bad. At the heart of this book — […]
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Behind the scenes in the big fight against coal
Down with coal!The climate fight hasn’t been going well lately. The Copenhagen conference in Dec. 2009 seemed to mark the effective end of international efforts to control carbon. The U.S. Senate couldn’t even bring itself to vote on cap-and-trade last summer. In November, a GOP committed to climate denial won new strength in the Congress. […]
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South Carolina governor's race: Sheheen vs. Haley
Tell us what you know about the governor's race in South Carolina. What's at stake? What are candidates saying about green issues?
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Will South Carolina become the nation’s new Yucca Mountain?
The Savannah River. Photo courtesy Mountain Hermit via Flickr Earlier this year, President Obama canceled the federal government’s plans to store high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and weapons facilities at the controversial Yucca Mountain site in Nevada — but now there are concerns that South Carolina could become the permanent dumping ground for […]
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Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
Lindsey GrahamSen. Lindsey Graham has stepped up to become the leading Republican advocate of a bipartisan climate bill. In a New York Times op-ed on Oct. 11, Graham joined with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to put forward a framework for climate legislation that they say can pass Congress and become “the blueprint for a clean-energy […]
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Mark Sanford’s “world wind” tour
Tour de Sanf.governor.sc.gov I’m not saying Mark Sanford is happy that Michael Jackson died. But … he is. Still, some brains have room for more than one scandalous news story at a time. And so even as I mourn Jacko’s passing, I find I can’t stop thinking about Mark Sanford’s juicy, tan line-admiring emails. Specifically, […]