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• Nestle crunched

  Greenpeace won’t give Nestle a break from palm oil candy bars 1

  Posted 19 Mar 2010 10:30 AM By Ashley Braun

  Nestle’s rainforest-razing KitKats have Greenpeace up in arms with a grotesque video that’s sparked fierce social media backlash against Nestle. Read More

• travel broadens the mine

  Coalfield protesters want to know when EPA chief will visit Appalachia

  Posted 19 Mar 2010 7:31 AM By Jeff Biggers

  Risking arrest, activists from the besieged Appalachian coalfield regions and their supporters from across the country have set up and locked themselves to two 20-foot purple mountains majesties in front of Lisa Jackson's office at the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., to call attention to her agency's mandate to enforce the Clean Water Act and halt the dumping of toxic mountaintop removal. Read More

• Carbon down, energy up

  Open letter to Sens. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman: a bipartisan path forward on energy and climate 4

  Posted 19 Mar 2010 8:49 AM By David Roberts

  Sens. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman, Thank you for the work you're doing to to address America's climate and energy challenges. As you meet with a broader group of stakeholders and begin to structure a bill, you face an enormous challenge of your own: crafting legislation that can get 60 votes in a fractured and somewhat exhausted Senate. The odds are steep, but I believe there is a strong, bipartisan path forward. Read More

• three's company

  Outline of Kerry-Graham-Lieberman appears to hew to Obama’s clean energy principles 1

  Posted 19 Mar 2010 5:00 AM By Brad Johnson

  Details of the comprehensive green economy legislation being negotiated by a bipartisan trio of senators are leaking out, as draft language nears completion. In a meeting Wednesday with a coalition of industry lobbyists, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) unveiled an eight-page draft outline for their bill. Read More

• A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

  Poll results handily explained by what bloggers think

  Posted 18 Mar 2010 3:19 PM By Eric Roston

  Another week of waiting for details of Senate legislation left little public grist this week. The Economist runs a climate package, which is worth reading. Beyond that, it's a good time to take a step back. Read More

• brain drain

  Racing for cleantech jobs: Why America needs an energy education strategy 4

  Posted 18 Mar 2010 12:30 PM By Teryn Norris

  The federal government has started to address the need for green technician and efficiency retrofit training, such as with the Green Jobs Act, but it has not implemented an education strategy to keep the U.S. at the leading edge of energy science, technology, and entrepreneurship. Read More

• where in tar-nation

  Film trailer: ‘Dirty Oil’ 1

  Posted 18 Mar 2010 10:35 AM

  A new film explores America’s oil addiction and the devastating impacts of the majority of its source: the Canadian tar sands. Watch this! Read More

• IT’S A DOME DEAL

  If it does matter where CO2 is released, cities are in trouble 15

  Posted 17 Mar 2010 8:48 AM By Jonathan Hiskes

  New research on “CO2 domes,” invisible clouds of carbon pollution that hover above urban areas, shows why cities have more to lose from climate change, and why they should fight back. Read More

• Morales imperative

  Bolivia summit to seek global climate change referendum 2

  Posted 17 Mar 2010 7:12 AM By Agence France-Presse

  An alternative "people's conference" on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said Tuesday. Read More

• Fashion faux pas

  Chanel gives global warming the cold shoulder in Paris fashion show

  Posted 16 Mar 2010 4:09 PM By Ashley Braun

  A top fashion designer from Chanel makes his fashion statement political when he puts an iceberg on the runway. The theme? Global cooling. Read More

• Reporting for Duty

  China and India to report their global warming pollution every two years

  Posted 16 Mar 2010 5:17 AM By Jake Schmidt

  Both China and India have now reaffirmed that they will report their global warming emissions every two years. The framework of this was agreed in the Copenhagen Accord which outlined that every two years developing countries will report their national emissions inventories and emission reduction actions based upon internationally agreed guidelines. Read More

• climate bill-out

  Is Senator Graham looking for an excuse to bail on climate legislation? 1

  Posted 16 Mar 2010 2:00 PM By Josh Nelson

  Kate Sheppard asks if the passage of health care legislation will hurt or hinder progress on climate legislation. But the underlying question is whether or not Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is looking for an excuse to bail on climate negotiations. Read More

• Sanyo sets up solar parking lots for electric bikes 1

  Posted 16 Mar 2010 8:40 AM By Agence France-Presse

• Jeff Goodell: ‘It’s a bad idea for geoengineering to be the equivalent of the Pompeii sex room’ 21

  Posted 16 Mar 2010 6:00 AM By David Roberts

• Adding iron to sea boosts deadly neurotoxin, study finds

  Posted 15 Mar 2010 3:45 PM By Agence France-Presse

• Time to bury cheap coal 15

  Posted 15 Mar 2010 3:31 PM By Terry Tamminen

• Carly Fiorina said cap-and-trade ‘will both create jobs and lower the cost of energy’

  Posted 15 Mar 2010 3:07 PM By Brad Johnson

• New Gallup poll shows sharp partisan divide in understanding of climate change 2

  Posted 15 Mar 2010 12:58 PM By Josh Nelson

• Daylight saving time doesn’t save energy 23

  Posted 15 Mar 2010 10:09 AM By Joseph Romm

• The other half of Kerry-Graham-Lieberman is weak too 2

  Posted 15 Mar 2010 9:22 AM By David Roberts

• ‘South by Southwest’ crowd told to start saving the planet

  Posted 15 Mar 2010 7:15 AM By Agence France-Presse

• Brian Baird: ‘This is not government mind control’ 8

  Posted 14 Mar 2010 10:43 AM By David Roberts

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