US Senate
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BP, other European polluters, pump money into Senate campaigns
An analysis by Climate Action Network Europe found that BP and other big polluting European companies are helping fund Senate climate zombies.
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Highlights from our chat with reporter Ryan Lizza on Senate climate politics
A big Grist thanks to reporter Ryan Lizza, author of the magisterial recent piece in The New Yorker on the death of the climate bill in the Senate, for stopping by to chat with us yesterday. The entire (two-hour!) transcript is still up, but here are a few highlights.
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A chat with New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza about climate in the Senate
This month, The New Yorker ran an extraordinary 10,000-word piece by reporter Ryan Lizza detailing the climate bill's slow and inglorious failure in the U.S. Senate. It was a feat of inside reporting, meaty enough to support dozens of follow-on posts dissecting and illuminating it. I'm very pleased to report that Lizza will be stopping by for a chat with Grist readers and me TODAY at 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific.
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Anatomy of a Senate climate bill death
Ryan Lizza's recent New Yorker piece provides an interesting insider view of the rise and fall of climate legislation in the Senate. But Lizza gives short shrift to the real reasons Senate passage of climate legislation was impossible in 2010: the deep recession, unified and uncompromising opposition in the Senate, and big spending by oil, coal, and other energy interests. Let's take a close look at these factors.
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Lessons from the climate fight: Dem party leaders screwed the climate bill
The leadership of the Democratic Party did little to help the climate bill and much to hurt it, treating it with indifference, carelessness, and hostility.
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Lessons from the climate fight: McCain's a tool
One fact that bobs to the surface as you read Ryan Lizza's New Yorker piece on the death of the climate bill is that John McCain is kind of a tool.
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Lessons from the climate fight: 'moderate' is meaningless
Senators who claim to accept the basic scientific facts of climate change are dubbed "moderate" even as they treat climate policy with all the seriousness of an earmark haggle.
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U.S. military faces reality and makes big push for renewable energy
So Congress wants to take it slow on this renewable energy thing. Not the U.S. military. It prefers to face reality.
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Lessons from the climate fight: determined ignorance in the Senate
One aspect of Senate dysfunction that deserves emphasis is the degree to which policy is made out of ignorance, as shown in Ryan Lizza's New Yorker piece.