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• Progress from the Copenhagen Accord: A good start to global progress on climate safety

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 3:37 PM By Andrew Light

  While many are determined to see the outcome of Copenhagen as a failure, an analysis from Project Catalyst reveals a different picture: a good start in this new year to the reductions needed in climate pollution and a clearer pathway on how to meet our global goals. Read More

• U.S. warns China against ‘stillborn’ climate deal

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 3:26 PM By Agence France-Presse

  The United States on Tuesday pressed China, India, and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen Accord risked being "stillborn." Read More

• Part I: 5 Questions

  Policy fixes to unleash clean energy 3

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 2:03 PM By Sean Casten

  Suppose you became King tomorrow and your first order of busuiness was to modernize the U.S. energy system -- make it cleaner, cheaper, more reliable and more sustainable. What would you do? Read More

• Cash for caulkers at a profit!

  Create jobs, reduce lung disease, and help solve the climate crisis at zero cost 3

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 10:14 AM By Gar Lipow

  As economic stimulus moves back onto the table, why not consider zero cost opportunities to create jobs, opportunities that would reduce lung diseases, and greenhouse gas emissions as a side effect? Read More

• the limits of voluntarism

  Are utilities’ plans for shoring up hazardous coal ash dams good enough? 2

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 9:10 AM By Sue Sturgis

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released action plans submitted by 22 coal-fired power plants to improve the safety of the massive dammed surface impoundments where they store toxic coal ash, but environmental advocates question whether the plans do enough to protect the public from disaster. Read More

• Cheaponomics 101

  The hidden costs and benefits of things we take for granted 3

  Posted 9 Feb 2010 11:38 AM By David Roberts

  Raj Patel has an interesting list of "things that aren't as cheap as you think," with an always-welcome reminder that many industries and social practices have costs that don't appear in the sticker price. These "externalities" are offloaded to the public; they represent, in effect, enormous subsidies. Free marketeers hate market-distorting subsidies, right? For the most part it's a great list. To make it perfect I'd remove one and add one. Read More

• Something old, something Newsom

  San Francisco sets the PACE 1

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 6:13 PM By Adam Browning

  Today, San Francisco Mayor Newsom signed the final piece of legislation necessary to get the city's PACE (municipal property tax financing for energy efficiency, renewables, and water conservation) program off the ground. Read More

• convention without representation

  Any hope for meaningful U.S. climate policy? A somewhat positive view 5

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 5:16 PM By Robert Stavins

  The current conventional wisdom ­– broadly echoed by the news media and the blogosphere – is that comprehensive, economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade legislation is dead in the current U.S. Congress, and perhaps for the next several years. Watch out for conventional wisdoms! Read More

• Firing blanks

  Four stories that should have changed the media narrative ... but didn’t 19

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 2:55 PM By David Roberts

  One of the most frustrating things about covering national energy politics is that conventional wisdom in D.C. never seems to change. Narratives there are a) completely at odds with the rest of the world's and b) absolutely impenetrable. Case in point: there were at least four stories last week that should have changed the narrative, but none of them made a dent. Read More

• Don't bet on it

  What are the chances of a cap-and-trade system being established in the U.S. this year?

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 12:49 PM By Lisa Hymas

  16.9 percent, according to Intrade.com, an online betting site -- down from 59 percent last summer, but up from 12.7 percent late last month. Read More

• Lobbyists rush to block EPA action on climate change

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 11:15 AM By Marianne Lavelle

  Like a lot of industry groups, the farm lobby says it would prefer that Congress tackle climate change rather than leaving the job to the bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency. But now, the prospect of EPA greenhouse gas regulation looms large -- mostly because agriculture and so many other interests haven't liked any of the climate bills so far on Capitol Hill. Read More

• hot and bothered

  U.N. climate chief raises the temperature with racy novel

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 10:07 AM By Agence France-Presse

  Rajendra Pachauri, who is at the heart of a controversy over a few instances of incorrect global warming data, has penned a racy novel that dishes up sex, reincarnation, and a real-life Hollywood actress. Read More

• The unheralded significance of the Audi ‘green police’ ad 39

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 1:16 AM By David Roberts

• A new American environmentalism and the new economy 2

  Posted 8 Feb 2010 5:00 AM By Gus Speth

• Palin bashes ‘cap and tax’ and commends Obama on nuclear 11

  Posted 7 Feb 2010 1:44 PM By Lisa Hymas

• The little solar that could 10

  Posted 5 Feb 2010 3:09 PM By Todd Woody

• A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill 50

  Posted 5 Feb 2010 12:53 AM By David Roberts

• Iraq veterans hit GOP for aiding terrorists with oil money 7

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 4:35 PM By Brad Johnson

• The Climate Post: In which it feels like everything has come to a full stop 10

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 4:04 PM By Eric Roston

• Bring back Van Jones 1

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 3:13 PM By Jeff Biggers

• Anti-jobs ‘California Jobs Initiative’ crew threatens suit over name change 1

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 2:45 PM By Adam Browning

• How much will nuclear cost U.S. citizens? 14

  Posted 4 Feb 2010 9:15 AM By Sue Sturgis

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