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• Lindsey Graham rebukes fellow Republicans: ‘The green economy is coming’ 1

  Posted 3 days, 15 hours agoWhile other Senate Republicans led by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) boycott action on the climate crisis, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has chosen a leadership role.

• Jon Stewart praises ‘SuperFreak’ author 5

  Posted 1 week, 3 days agoOn last night’s Daily Show, host Jon Stewart heaped praise on the contrarian approach to global warming taken by SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt, a University of Chicago economist.

• Who’s who on the EPW: Senate committee begins landmark climate hearings 0

  Posted 1 week, 4 days agoThis week, hearings begin in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The committee members can be sorted by their degree of support for clean energy, progressive reform, and strong climate action.

• Obama says ‘It’s hard to say’ why critics of clean energy accuse him of socialism 1

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day agoThe current system has reaped great rewards for the ultra-wealthy and the industrial polluters at the expense of the health and welfare of their fellow Americans. To avoid blame for their malfeasance, they must paint Obama as the villain, and his essential reform agenda as even scarier than the status quo, with language that taps into the darkest fears of the American public.

• Is the Congressional Budget Office trying to kill humanity? 1

  Posted 3 weeks, 2 days agoAlthough director Doug Elmendorf recognized that his estimates do not take into account the economic impacts of climate change, he testified that the changes that scientists call "catastrophic" would be barely noticeable in the U.S. economy.

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  What's the logic?

  Does Dingell really think it's a good idea to rally support from industry lobbyists in the current political environment?

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  On House Dems taking sides in Dingell/Waxman battle over posted 12 months ago 3 Responses

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  Pity

  Just because LCV endorsed Chris Shays doesn't make him a green candidate. His record of supporting the Bush-Cheney agenda means that he is far to the right of his constituents on environmental policy.

  Endorsing an incumbent with a 54% LCV rating against a progressive, environmentalist challenger in a liberal district is shameful.

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  On A look at House races with hot eco-angles posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

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  Sununu, really?

  Really, Sununu? The guy is a Norquistian conservative libertarian.

  Sununu filibustered renewable tax credits not once, but twice in key votes that failed by a single vote. (McCain could have overcome the filibuster both times if he so desired.)

  Sununu is far to the right of his NH constituents, increasingly so as the years go by.

  I hate to slam a fellow MIT grad, but Sununu is no Snowe-Chafee (or even a Collins).

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  On LCV endorses Republican Susan Collins in Maine Senate race posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

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  Alito and Roberts

  Collins called the extreme anti-environment zealot Sarah Palin a "great choice."

  Worse, Collins voted to confirm Alito and Roberts, who tried to prevent the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

  Among many, many other anti-environment positions they have taken and will continue to do so in the coming decades.

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  On LCV endorses Republican Susan Collins in Maine Senate race posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

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  The real lesson

  Is that EDF has a ridiculous amount of money.

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  On Joseph Romm's critique of EDF's contest is misguided posted 1 year ago 2 Responses