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Where That Green $32 Billion Went: Recovery Act Update
It was the first big move made by the Obama administration, and yet the stimulus bill remains controversial and largely misunderstood. There's little disagreement among economists that the
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Obama: Climate Reform Dead for at Least Two Years
In a press conference he held to address the results of the 2010 elections, president Barack Obama made a none-too surprising statement: That comprehensive climate and clean energy reform is kaput for at
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Climate & Clean Energy Can Win Elections
Throughout the 2010 midterm election cycle -- and well before -- most politicians dared not even utter the word climate change. Sometime after the
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Californians Kill Prop 23, Embrace Climate & Clean Energy Law
The best climate and clean energy news to come out of yesterday's election is that California voters roundly rejected Proposition 23, a ballot initiative sponsored by out-of-state oil companies that would have overturned the state's 2006 climate law.
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Big Oil Spent $70 Million on Anti-Clean Energy Ads this Year
This is only one such anti-clean energy TV ad that Big Oil paid for this year. It's also full of misinformation and outright falsehoods. Oil companies outspent the clean energy industry 10 to 1 Sensing that the anti-regulatory attitude championed by the
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California's Prop 26 Would Let Big Polluters Off the Hook
In California, most of the green movement's energy and effort has gone towards fighting Proposition 23, an initiative funded by the Texas companies Tesoro and Valero to effectively turn back the state's
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Activists Head to World Series: "Beat Texas, Vote No on Prop 23"
Photo: Kevin Ward via Flickr/CC BY The World Series & Prop 23: Giants vs. Rangers, CA vs. Texas Oil? This year's World Series, as you're likely aware, features a showdown between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers. It's an interesting
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Schwarzenegger: DC Full of "Wimps" Who Let Oil Companies Win (Video)
California Arnold Schwarzenegger had some harsh words for Washington politicians -- perhaps especially the Obama administration -- during his interview with Diane Sawyer earlier in the week. He said that Washington DC is full of "wimps"
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Watch CA Governor Candidates' War of Words Over Anti-Climate Law (Video)
The final debate between the candidates for governor in California took place last night, and things seemed to get pretty heated. The topics tackled ranged from tax cuts to legalizing marijuana to Prop 23, the oil-funded effort to kill California's
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Google Invests in $5 Billion, 350-Mile Wind Power 'Backbone'
Today, Google announced that it's getting into the wind power game in a big way -- according to the New York Times, the search engine giant is taking 37.5% of the equity for a $5 billion project to create a 350
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How the Senate Killed Climate and Obama Helped it Die
Yes, the entire week has gone by, and for one reason or another I haven't yet commented on the New Yorker piece on the climate bill that sent ripples around the climate blogosphere. Hell, it inspired Grist's Dave Roberts to write
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Stephen Colbert Rails Against "Environmental Ear Pollution" (Video)
This week, two prominent cases where noisiness threatened to thwart the
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How the US Military Could Bring Solar Power to Mass Market
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the US military was "pushing aggressively to develop, test and deploy renewable energy to decrease its need to transport fossil fuels," in order to avoid increasingly frequent
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Wind Power Too Loud for Maine Residents (Video)
The complaints you hear about wind turbines installed near people's homes run a predictable gamut: They're too ugly, too big, or yes, too noisy. Because renewable energy sources are gaining in prominence and are still mildly controversial in some
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Obama Fights for Clean Energy in Weekly Address (Video)
Since comprehensive clean energy & climate legislation failed in Congress, a renewable energy standard is still glaringly absent, and the EPA's role in regulating greenhouse gases in the future is still up in the
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Schwarzenegger Blasts "Black Oil Hearts" of Prop 23 Backers
Say what you will about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, but despite being the onetime public face of the Hummer, he's consistently come out on the side of good green policy for his state. And he may
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Obama: US on Target to Reduce Emissions by 17%
Well there's an interesting statement. In Rolling Stone's recently published and widely circulated interview with Barack Obama, the president explains his thoughts on climate change and current US energy policy. Discussions of his frustration with the
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California's Proposition 23: A Cunning Effort to Kill Clean Energy
There's been a lot of talk lately around about Proposition 23 in California -- oil companies are dumping money into campaigns to support it, clean energy advocates are adamantly against it, and it's become a
