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GOP Pres. Hopeful Jon Huntsman: "We Have a Heroin-Like Addiction to Oil"
Poor old Jon Huntsman. To my eyes, he's the most sensible and intellectually capable candidate to emerge in the GOP field yet. He's moderate, and acknowledges the existence of both science and
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U.S. Gas Taxes About to Expire: Get Ready for Congress's Next Meltdown
Oh good. The gas tax -- the small fee that imposed on consumers of gas when they fill up their tanks is about to expire. Our gas taxes are already much, much smaller than almost all of the rest of the developed
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Coast Guard Has Zero Capacity To Deal With Arctic Oil Spills, Head Officer Tells Senate
As the race to stake claims for future oil drilling in the Arctic takes off in anticipation of an ice-free region sooner rather than later, and as oil companies and Congress members continue to push for the US to drill in the Arctic, here are some
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Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Incoming? House Passes Bill Mandating Decision Within 4 Months
The Keystone XL pipeline is unique in that it poses both a supreme environmental threat and is gravely symbolic; a harbinger of a certain fossil fuel-dependent doom, if you will. If constructed, the
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Congress Now Considering the "Most Anti-Environmental Legislation Ever" (Video)
Joe Romm points us to this fine speech that Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) gave at an anti-coal rally last week, heralding New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's $50 million donation to the Sierra Club and the launch of a new campaign. He took the
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With the Climate Bill Long Dead, Key Players Move On ...
It's been a year or so now since the climate bill died its quiet, agonizing death. Bad as that was, few would have predicted it would have gotten so much worse, so quickly ... but it did. Anywho, you might be curious to see what all of the chief
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Exxon & Koch Industries Literally Paid to Write Anti-Climate Laws
This sort of thing should be shocking: Bloomberg News has revealed that Exxon and Koch Industries paid tens of thousands of dollars to help write laws that would help them avoid pollution regulations. But what should be an offensive affront to
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Incandescent Light Bulb Hoarder Confesses the Error of His Ways
I love this story, published over on the right-wing pollster Rasmussen's editorial page. In it, a self-professed environmentalist confesses that he has been hoarding incandescent bulbs for months,
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Fox News: Energy Efficient Light Bulbs Will Kill Us All! (Video)
Run for your lives! Energy efficient light bulbs are coming, and they're going to poison you and your children! They'll spray mercury all over your house, while
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Business Lobbies Unite to Fight for More Smog
Interest groups, the Business Roundtable chief among them, are attempting to capitalize on an anti-regulatory sentiment popular amongst American conservatives by lobbying hard against incoming Clean Air rules that would limit smog output from industry.
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GOP Rep Seeks to Stop Kids from Learning about Energy Efficiency
The Tea Party crowd's aversion to better energy efficiency standards for light bulbs is well known by now: A straightforward, industry-supported 2007 bill signed into law by George W. Bush has now been falsely
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40 Million Hunters & Fishermen Fed Up With GOP's Anti-Environment Agenda
There are an estimated 40 million sportsmen in the United States: hunters, sport fishermen, and outdoor enthusiasts. They're a traditionally right-leaning voting bloc, and an influential one at that; they
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GOP's Accomplishments This Year: Styrofoam Cups, Little Else
Politico, the right-leaning DC newspaper, has an interesting synopsis of the GOP's accomplishments in the energy and environment arena thus far this year. And it's interesting primarily because those accomplishments are
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Dept of Interior Appropriations Bill Is 'Declaration of War' On America's Basic Environmental Protections
The new appropriations bill for funding the Department of Interior from the House of Representatives is out in draft form. Among the more egregious parts of it include: Prohibiting any new plants or animals being
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As Fracking Corps Have 'An Enron Moment' Congressmen Push Natural Gas For Energy Security
Just when newly disclosed documents obtained by the New York Times reveal the financial shaky ground on which fracking companies base their claims, a group on Congressmen are urging President Obama to further embrace natural
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"There is No Such Thing as Global Warming": Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum (Video)
And so it has come to this. The friendly competish amongst GOP presidential candidates to see who could most fully disavow the existence of climate change has been won. Tim Pawlenty gave it a pretty good run for his money, apologizing for ever trying
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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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Senate Votes to End Billions in Ethanol Subsidies
A measure that would remove roughly $6 billion in annual ethanol subsidies just passed the U.S. Senate, signaling, among other things, a shift in public attitude towards the once-heralded alternative fuel. It
