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• Dept. of Misinformation

  No, Jeff, there’s not a debate about the science of climate change 2

  Posted 21 hours, 20 minutes ago

  Following on our in-depth series, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, Grist is launching an occasional feature that tracks the latest global warming denialisms and skeptics garbage, making sure to point readers to the real story. Read More

• It Could Be Verse

  Climate-news poem: Breath-catching edition 0

  Posted 23 hours, 15 minutes ago by Katharine Wroth

  After last week's Congressional frenzy, we take a moment to reflect on the climate vote and its fallout. Next week: no ACES, we promise! Read More

• Da we can

  U.S.-Russia climate and energy efficiency cooperation: A neglected challenge 0

  Posted 22 hours, 53 minutes ago by Andrew Light

  The summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow on July 6-8 comes in the middle of a packed international schedule of bilateral and multilateral meetings for the United States. on climate change. In the run up to the critical U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen at the end of this year, when the extension or successor to the existing Kyoto Protocol must be agreed upon, it is crucial that the United States and Russia—both major emitters of greenhouse… Read More

• A walk through the week's climate news

  The Climate Post: Has the political climate changed? 5

  Posted 22 hours, 56 minutes ago by Eric Roston

  First things first: The U.S. House of Representatives last week narrowly voted to overhaul the nation's energy economy by limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions, boosting efficiency, and developing renewable electricity sources. The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act would limit, or "cap," annual pollution and allow industry to buy and sell, or "trade," credits in a new and tightly regulated commodity market. The vote, 219-212, sends an equivocal message to the Senate, where advocates… Read More

• time for former Vice President to visit Coal River Valley

  Bo Webb to Al Gore: come to Ground Zero in climate battle 0

  Posted 1 day, 2 hours ago by Jeff Biggers

  This is a guest post by Bo Webb, a Vietnam veteran and former businessman in the Coal River Valley, West Virginia, who has been one of the lead organizers in stopping mountaintop removal strip-mining. Webb received notice last week that mountaintop removal operations in Clay's Branch, directly above his home, will resume, despite regulatory violations noted by federal officials. Read More

• China blasts U.S. climate bill enabling penalties on trade partners 2

  Posted 1 day, 2 hours ago by Agence France-Presse

  China said Thursday it was "firmly" opposed to provisions in a new U.S. clean energy bill that will make it easier to impose trade penalties on nations that reject limits to globe-warming pollution. Read More

• New energy at DOE

  Autos, smart grid and clean tech: DOE turns on the money 1

  Posted 1 day, 22 hours ago by Michael Moynihan

  Last week the Department of Energy released part of the $25 billion in loans provided for through the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, included in Section 136 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The delay in releasing these funds had been one of the longest running scandals in clean tech policy. Upon taking office, the Obama Administration vowed to expedite their release and Secretary Steven… Read More

• 2 degrees of Earth bakin'

  47 groups urge Obama to endorse 2-degree C warming threshold 3

  Posted 1 day, 21 hours ago by Kate Sheppard

  A broad coalition of environment, science, and faith-based groups sent a letter to President Barack Obama recently asking him to pursue a goal of keeping global warming to less than 2 degrees in upcoming international meetings. Read More

• Compromises, what compromises?

  The new Senate global warming deniers 1

  Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago by Bill Scher

  In the aftermath of the House vote, right-leaning Senate Dems and right-wing Republicans acted as if Reps. Henry Waxman and Ed Markey hadn't spent the last three months painstakingly piecing a compromise with Dems sympathetic to coal companies, power companies, and agribusiness. These Senators are the new global warming deniers: Not denying the climate crisis is happening, but denying the climate bill compromises that just happened. Read More

• Follow the money

  Southern Company dominates the climate lobbying scene 1

  Posted 1 day, 23 hours ago by David Donald, Marianne Lavelle

  Southern Company, the nation's largest electric power generator, also had the largest force of lobbyists among the hundreds of businesses and interest groups that were seeking to influence the landmark climate change legislation that just passed the House. Read More

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