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Rick Perry's Jobs Plan: Drill Like Crazy, Destroy the Environment (Video)
Rick Perry believes he can create 2.5 million more jobs by drilling in every crevice America's got.
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Exxon's Profits Hit $31 Billion So Far This Year, Yet Big Oil Subsidies Flourish
Oil companies' profits are soaring. So why is there a push for more oil company
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Mitt Romney's Energy Plan: Boost Big Oil, Slash Environmental Protections
The man favored to win the GOP nomination would cozy up to fossil fuels and continue the Republican assault on the GOP.
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Rhode Island Senator Does The Unthinkable: Takes A Strong Public Stand on Climate (Video)
Last week Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has done what pitifully few members of Congress or the Obama administration have done lately: Take a stand, articulately, passionately, and accurately about climate.
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35 Congressmen Move to Kill $122 Billion in Subsidies to Big Oil
Who likes oil subsidies? Nobody! Nobody but the oil companies, that is. But as we know, these subsidies, which American taxpayers annually spend billions of dollars on, are extremely difficult to kill. But 35 US
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Tea Party + Coal Companies + Fox News = All-Out PR War on the EPA (Video)
It's no accident that something as innocuous as the Environmental Protection Agency has become the right's villain du jour -- it was the result of careful coordination, especially between coal companies, Republican politicians, and, yes, Fox News. If
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Rick Perry's Climate Censorship Takes Cues From George W. Bush
News broke on Monday that the Texas government was working to censor a scientific report that mentioned the impacts of manmade climate change on Galveston Bay. The impacts it described, which included
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US Congress to Turn 90% of its Trash Into Energy
The policies that Congressmen and women adhere to in their everyday lives occasionally act as a useful reflection of the political trends pulling at the nation in general. Consider earlier this year, when
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62% of Republicans Want Their Leaders to Leave EPA Alone
I've used just about all of the blog-powers vested in me to make this point: Americans want the government to protect them from pollution. They just do. Last year, a poll found that 77% of Americans wanted
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GOP Vows To End Nonexistent Farm Dust Regulations
Bold and cunning Republicans in both the House of Reps and the Senate have undertaken a noble new cause: Getting rid of "farm dust regulations" so that poor ol' farmers can get a break from the dastardly Environmental
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Regulating Coal Ash Could Create 28,000 Jobs
The EPA has been considering stricter regulations of coal ash, the toxic solid waste from coal power plants that the public was largely unaware of before the 2008 TVA spill in Kingston, Tennessee. One of the EPA's proposals
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Rick Perry's Attack Ad: Obama & Romney are 'Carbon Copies' (Video)
There's no love lost between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, the two supposed frontrunners in the GOP presidential primary race. Ever since Perry hurled himself upon the scene and was instantly proclaimed a serious contender by a breathless,
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Are We About to Start Geoengineering Up in Here?
Geoengineering is a frightening prospect. It should be, anyway. Intentionally attempting to engineer the planet's climate system by seeding cloud cover or scattering reflective particulates or so forth might seem
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GOP Rep: America "Can't Compete With China" on Clean Energy
Today, the Republican representative leading the Solyndra hearings took the Obama administration to task for funding any clean energy projects at all.
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Graph of the Day: Cost of Solyndra's Failure Vs. Cost of Military 'Boondoggles'
Everybody's talking about the Solyndra bankruptcy, mostly because opponents of clean energy want us to be talking about them. It's a non-scandal of the truest kind, despite what Fox's breathless
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GOP Congress Has Made 125 Anti-Environment Votes This Year So Far.
I posit the following as general truisms:
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Rick Perry Amps Up Aerial Hunting of Destructive Wild Hogs
Yesterday, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law a bill legalizing the hunting of feral wild hogs from helicopters. The arguments for the law are simple: the
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The Republican Presidential Candidates' Assault on Science (Video)
There have been all sorts of extremely strange claims about science coming from this crop of GOP presidential candidates -- claims like climate science is an elaborate sham perpetrated by data-manipulating scientists (that's Rick Perry, Ron Paul and
