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The Simplest Multi-Billion Dollar Budget Cut of All: Oil Subsidies
If you're looking for compelling evidence that GOP power brokers don't really care about reducing the deficit -- beyond purporting to do so in order to push their anti-government spending narrative, of course --
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Obama's Failure To Communicate Left Us High & Dry
Photo credit: borman18 via Flickr/CC BY What we've got here is, well ... Obama blew it. How, when, and on which bill or negotiation he blew it will vary from observer to observer. Democrats, progressives, and moderates all agree that Obama blew it on
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Shell Gets Conditional Approval From Obama Administration For Arctic Oil Drilling
This is bound to be challenged by every single environmental group with a stake here, but it's still really not encouraging: New York Times reports that the Department of Interior has granted Shell conditional approval to start drilling oil exploration
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Massive Tar Sands Pipeline Protest to Hit White House This Month
If you have even a fleeting passion for the environment, you probably already know what a monstrosity Canada's tar sands are. It's been dubbed the "most environmentally destructive project on Earth". A 1,700 mile
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54.5 MPG by 2025: 6 Major Carmakers Endorse Obama's Fuel Efficiency Plan
One of the major obstacles has just been cleared, showing that the Obama administration's ambitious fuel efficiency plans may indeed come to pass: Six of the nation's biggest automakers have just
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President Obama's Environmental Record: Good on Fuel Efficiency, Not So Good on Climate & Energy
Assessing President Obama's environmental record so far seems to be the rage in the past few weeks. First Slate and now Yale e360 is stock-taking, enlisiting a dozen prominent environmental activists,
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How Would You Grade Obama's Environmental Progress?
President Obama is getting ready to kick his reelection campaign into high gear. As such, it's an opportune time to take a look back at his achievements in the environmental arena thus far -- and that's precisely what Slate's Green Lantern has done
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National Parks Policy: Obama Vs. Bush
There are a lot of things about environmental policy from the Bush era that we'd like to see reversed, but one thing he may have done better than Obama is preserve, or at least not destroy, national parks, according
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Al Gore Blasts Obama, Media for Dropping the Ball on Climate
Al Gore is typically considered the face of climate advocacy. An instantly-recognizable establishment figure, the former Vice President usually works extremely hard to put forth an optimistic, cooperative
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Obama Still Hasn't Put Up Those Solar Panels on the White House Roof ...
Again, I'm perfectly serious. You may remember the saga from a while back, when a group of clean energy
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A Look at Obama's Smart Grid Programs
The Obama administration unveiled some of the moving parts that will comprise its effort to build the nation's smart grid. From crowd-sourced idea hubs to loans for rural communities, Gigaom details how the president's vision for smart grid is
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Where's That Green Jobs Revolution Obama Promised?
When Obama first came into office in 2009, he did so on the back of a promise to usher in a green jobs revolution of sorts -- with an intent to employ 5 million people in sectors like clean energy and efficiency improvement
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Can the GOP Trick the Public Into Thinking Obama's to Blame for High Gas Prices?
That's precisely what they're trying to do, and they're not shy about it. Earlier this week, I pointed out the Politico article that spells out exactly how the Tea Party-affiliated group Americans for Prosperity plans on
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Obama is a Pushover on the Environment: Ex-Interior Secretary
Bruce Babbitt was the Secretary of the Interior under President Bill Clinton. He knows firsthand the dangers of failing to push back against corporate and political interests that seek to overturn
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Tea Party to Use 14-Ft Inflatable Gas Pump to Blame Obama for High Oil Prices
You've probably heard of the Americans for Prosperity, the infamous hard-line libertarian group that was co-founded by the Koch brothers. Many experts credit the organization with the rise of the Tea
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John Bryson, Obama's New Pick for Commerce Secretary, is Pretty Damn Green
In a crafty move that appears to have been designed to appease both a perpetually disapproving business world and the increasingly frustrated environmental community, Obama has tapped John Bryson to be
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Obama Calls for More Offshore Drilling. Again.
Despite the massive economic and ecological damage wrought by the BP spill, and despite the numerous studies by nonpartisan agencies that show increased drilling won't lower prices at the pump, President Obama has taken the bait and is now joining the
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Obama: "We can't just drill our way out of the problem"
Hey-o! Look who decided to wake up and make a little noise on the energy front. After getting pushed around by the pro-drilling crowd for the last couple years, Obama at least made the effort today to note that drilling for oil
