Tagged with Policy 
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Is There A Light of Hope Beneath the Mud?
Salvadoran mudslides: A plea for climate change solutions and holistic water policy 1
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago Torrents of mud and boulders flattened villages in El Salvador recently, leaving over 100 people dead and thousands homeless. From all indications, climate change will be most acutely felt in an escalating frequency and ferocity of floods and droughts. It’s chilling to think that we ought to expect much more of this kind of devastation in the coming years. -
An Advocate's Playbook
Strategies to promote energy efficiency in buildings 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago I developed the following graphic for a presentation to a visiting Chinese delegation. I believe it sums up our building energy efficiency strategies simply and effectively. -
Jumpstarting Clean Energy
Report Pushes for More Research Investment and New National Institutes of Energy 0
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Everyone's got a lobbyist
Tally of interests on climate bill tops a thousand 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week agoMore 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.
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THE CREDIBILITY PROJECT IS BORN
Senate Minority Report on global warming not credible, says Center for Inquiry 8
Posted 4 months ago By Stuart Jordan, Thomas O'Brien
The Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy knocks climate skeptics by releasing findings exposing the lack of credibility of dissenting scientists challenging man-made global warming. The dissenting scientists are cited in the U.S. Senate Minority Report, a document being hailed by lawmakers opposed to legislation needed to slow global climate change.
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Follow the money
Southern Company dominates the climate lobbying scene 3
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago By David Donald, Marianne LavelleSouthern 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.
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Don't staple a pink slip to their diploma
5,400 students currently training for solar jobs in California 0
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks agoAt least 5,400 Californians are training to enter the solar industry with one of 27 solar training service providers, according to a survey we just conducted.
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Dispatch from Bonn: The Nature Conservancy
What does nature have to do with climate change? 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
It's sometimes easy for nature to get lost during the international climate change negotiations here in Bonn. But what does nature have to do with climate change and how does nature play into these negotiations? A group of some of the world's top scientific experts released findings in Bonn this week to help give negotiators those answers.
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Does economic analysis shortchange the future? 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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