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don't get in the way, congress!

Growth in renewable energy outpaces nuclear, fossil fuels 2
Posted 2 months ago
Chamber Chief Donohue Emerges as Unlikely Hero for Climate Protection

US Chamber Calls for Global Powers for Congress 0
Posted 2 months ago
Jumpstarting Clean Energy

Report Pushes for More Research Investment and New National Institutes of Energy 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
More than a pretty slogan

Climate plus security minus hyperbole still scary 0
Posted 3 months ago
The impact of climate change on national security has finally moved above the fold. And as the December Copenhagen climate change negotiations approach, politicians and experts alike are being forced to examine the complex effects of natural and social change on security. They must also walk a linguistic tightrope between hyperbole and uncertainty, working to present the facts without exaggerating their meaning. So how do they maintain balance while climate security arguments are touted as a way to compel a tough climate agreement in Copenhagen? The short answer: It won't be easy.
Are you with Don Blankenship or against him?

We are all from Wise County 2
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Want to get really angry about health care and global warming? Not the ginned-up rage of the Obama-was-really-born-in-Kenya crowd, but an anger that fires you up to take action in the name of justice? Anger like the rage felt by so many white Northerners and Southerners in 1963 when they saw Birmingham's fire hoses turned on patriotic African-Americans, a rage so profound that they too joined the civil rights revolution?

Well I invite you, in a brief audio and video tour, to bear witness to what's happening in Wise County, Virginia.
Getting to a healthy climate, progressively

Health care, climate, and the progressive movement 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
It would be a good thing -- more than that, it is imperative -- to have a presence of progressive activists at "Energy Citizen" rallies.
How to Make Green Conferences Feel Less Like Capital Punishment

Sustainability conferences can be boring and terrible 3
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Sustainability conferences are now so ubiquitious that you can't swing a cat without hitting one. But I find myself massively dissatisfied by most (though not all) events, which typically bore the crap out of me.
drilling democracy

Big Oil holding ‘town halls’ on climate bill 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Following in the footsteps of the corporate-backed protest movement against health care reform, a group founded and funded by business interests opposed to regulating greenhouse gas pollution is planning a series of rallies to oppose the climate legislation being considered by Congress.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sen. Mark Pryor is a moderate who has voiced concerns in the past about passing climate policy, but has been relatively quiet this year. He is regularly listed among the Democrats most likely to oppose a climate bill.
Turning up the heat on climate negotiations

Bonn 3: Chairman raises stakes 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I spend 2 weeks a year in Bonn - but I've never been here in August until this year. Bonn 3 was supposed to be a quiet session, but chairman Michael Zammit Cutajar just raised the stakes.
The three amigos take on climate change

Obama, Calderon, and Harper talk up vision for ‘low-carbon North America’ 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
At a North American summit Monday in Guadalajara, Mexico, U.S. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper released a statement on climate change.
Everyone's got a lobbyist

Tally of interests on climate bill tops a thousand 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
More than 460 new businesses and interest groups jumped into lobbying Congress on global warming in the weeks before the House neared its historic vote on climate change legislation, a Center for Public Integrity analysis of just-disclosed lobbying records shows.
Gloves off

Seven ways to fight dirty (energy) 4
Posted 4 months ago
If we are going to pass effective legislation this year, it's time we step up the effort and fight the dirty industries that pollute our communities and jeopardize our children and grandchildren's future. Here are seven ways to do it.
When Will They End?

James Lovelock and the End Times 8
Posted 4 months ago
British scientist and author James Lovelock has just published a follow-up book to his 2006 book, The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity entitled, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. Throughout both books he presents scientific evidence to support his view that the chances of humankind surviving a worldwide climate catastrophe are not that good.
Sleazy tactics and dirty money pollute the climate debate 1
Posted 4 months ago
Today's big news is reported by the Charlottesville Daily Progress, which reports that opponents of the ACES climate bill hired a DC lobby firm to manufacture grassroots opposition to the bill, using tactics that include writing fake letters ostensibly from real organizations.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Big hopes for Al G. 1
Posted 4 months ago
Extending electricity's shelf-life, the recent carbon control high-five between the U.S. and China, and bending algae to our biofueled will: this week in climate news from The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University.
Is hindsight 20/20?

Learning from past civilizations 2
Posted 4 months ago
To understand our current environmental dilemma, it helps to look at earlier civilizations that also got into environmental trouble. Our early 21st century civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond.
...because she understands climate science and fights to avert catastrophe

Politico’s anonymous sources slam Barbara Boxer’s “abrasive personal style” 0
Posted 4 months ago
Does the Politico know that global warming is NOT a hoax, that thousands of scientists (and dozens of governments, including our own) are NOT engaged in a massive conspiracy to fool the public? Because if the Politico knows that - and I hope they do - then they know that their own critique of Boxer for pushing back hard against Inhofe is utter crap.
Talk politics to me

Juliet Eilperin talks climate legislation with The Nation 0
Posted 4 months ago
The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin chats with The Nation about whether or not climate legislation has a snowball's chance of passing this year, and if the current bill being debated in the Senate can really "solve the problem."
climate check please!

“The Bill” 0
Posted 4 months ago
Best short film about climate justice ever -- even if it is in German. (It's got subtitles.)