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Is Michele Bachmann's Plan to Violate the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act the Green Move?
In 2009, we congratulated Congress and President Obama on extending the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, forbidding development that would change the wild or scenic nature of
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Michele Bachmann: Abolish the EPA (Video)
Okay, so you might have seen this floating around already, but in case you didn't, it's worth getting a sense for how the GOP candidates feel about the EPA. Above, Michele Bachmann, presumed presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep, outlines her plan
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USCC Fights to Keep Potentially Penis-Deforming Chemicals in Our Plastic
Ah, inflammatory headlines. You know I'd never deploy one if it weren't true, though -- and this time, sadly, egregiously, it is. The US Chamber of Commerce is using its vast lobbying muscle to try to block the
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As Extreme Weather Rocks Nation, GOP Blocks Climate Adaptation Efforts
Last year, natural disasters left 42 million people homeless -- twice as many as in 2009. 10% of those people were hit by earthquakes. The rest were victims of flooding, drought, heatwaves, and tropical
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The GOP's "Environmental Wish List" is Horrifying
Unless you've been hiding in a cave -- or perhaps a lavish, sealed-off compound -- for the last few months, you're likely fully aware that the GOP is in full-bore Tea Partying mode. Which means ultra-anti-regulatory
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Chris Christie: A 'Green' GOP Presidential Candidate for 2016?
Yesterday, when I wrote about the hypocrisy of Chris Christie -- the New Jersey governor who claimed he'd be the state's no. 1 clean energy advocate then went on to support dirty fuels and gut funding for renewables -- I received some interesting
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US' First Two Offshore Wind Farms On Hold Thanks To Congressional Budget Battle
Two wind power projects vying to the be first completed in the United States have been put on hold thanks to partisan politics pulling the plug on the Department of Energy's loan programs. As SmartPlanet reports, both NRG Bluewater Wind's planned
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Want to Balance the Budget? Price Carbon, Tax Oil.
Despite all the talk in Congress about the need to balance the budget, there's a serious dearth of new ideas about how it might actually be done. The Center for American Progress's budget proposal suggests pricing carbon and placing a tax on imported
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Darth Vader, Rep. Ed Markey Try to Use the Force on High Gas Prices (Video)
In this goofy play on one of this year's most popular Super Bowl ads (y'know, the one where the little kid runs around the house trying to use the force on various stuff), Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) teams up with Darth Vader to explain that nothing
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Why We Need the EPA: The Daily Show Edition (Video)
The Environmental Protection Agency has been getting slammed lately: Republicans have launched
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On Oil Drilling, Subsidies & Congress
Politicians like to go on TV and say that our nation is broke. But that's not why America is in trouble. Our real problem? Our system of government is broken.
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Congress's Plans to Lower Gas Prices Won't Do Squat
Between the efforts to push five or so offshore drilling bills that considered in Congress over the last few weeks, there's been no shortage of posturing about "fighting" high oil prices. Some of these bills have
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Senate Sinks Offshore Drilling Bill
The US Senate shot down a bill designed to expand offshore drilling in Alaska, Virgina, and the Gulf of Mexico. Three separate pro-drilling bills passed the House of Reps last week, and would open up the amount
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GOP Won't Tolerate a Candidate Who Even Acknowledges Existence of Climate Change
Yesterday, Daniel wrote a brief profile on GOP presidential contender John Huntsman. The ex-ambassador to China recently mentioned in a recent TIME interview that *gasp* he sees no reason to disagree with the vast consensus of scientists who say that
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Climate Skeptic's Debunked Report Exposes How the Denial Industry Works
This post is an installment in a series about the state of American climate skepticism. I'll be expanding upon the ideas put forward in my recent Slate piece, Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds?, so read that first. Photo: Steve Snodgrass via
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Things We Already Knew But Are Being Told Yet Again: US Domestic Inaction on Climate Stymies International Action & Resource Overconsumption Means We're Going To Need Another Planet by 2050
Sorry about the exceedingly long headline (appallingly long by accepted standards of blogging brevity) but it somehow seems an appropriate when two of the weightier stories making their way around today are items
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Democrats Seek to Strip $21 Billion in Subsidies from Big Oil
... But it's all about politics. The New York Times reported earlier this week that Democrats thought they'd found a strategy to peel away some of the oil subsidies that the federal government annually doles out to some
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GOP Has Voted to Support Big Oil 7 Times in 2011
Despite consistently spouting rhetoric that would lead you to believe that the GOP was all about slashing government spending -- they've certainly repeated the mantra often enough to make folks assume they were serious about it -- they don't seem to be
