Category: Energy and Environment
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The Catastrophic Oil Spill in Trump\’s Cabinet
With the nomination of Exxon-Mobil\’s CEO and an Energy Transfer Partners board member to Cabinet posts, Donald Trump has added to the swamp he pledged to clean two corporate alligators who will put the planet in peril.
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A Day of Action To Stop An Oil Pipeline and \”Keep It In The Ground\”
\”Day of Action\” events around the country will protest construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, while a petition drive calls for a broader halt to oil extraction.
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Time For Obama and Clinton To Oppose The Dakota Access Pipeline
The confrontation over the Dakota Access Pipeline challenges President Obama, the Democratic candidate who is seeking to succeed him, Hillary Clinton, and Congress to be clear whose side they are on.
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People\’s Budget Puts Forward An Aggressive Plan To Green Our Economy
The Congressional Caucus\’ budget proposal for fiscal 2017 includes a set of climate-change-related proposals that one environmental organization says makes it \”the greenest option in Washington.\”
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Nevada\’s Right Wing Could Get Burned Trying to Shut Solar Power Down
\”It\’s going to be a campaign issue,\” says an activist and homeowner who is among those who will be hurt by a Koch brothers-backed push to make home solar power adoption prohibitively expensive.
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Time For Us To Be the Enforcers Of the Climate Change Accords
Whether you are skeptical of the Paris agreement or see them as a groundbreaking accomplishment for the planet, you should see them as an opportunity for us as citizens to keep our leaders accountable.
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Scott Wallace on The Key To Building A Climate Movement
Scott Wallace of the Wallace Global Fund, who will be honored at the Campaign for America\’s Future 2015 Awards Gala, explains his success in driving the global conversation on climate change.
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ALEC Needs To Let The Sun Shine In
Why would the ALEC network of right-wing state lobbyists want to kill off incentives for using solar energy? Could it be the heavy investment in fossil fuels by one of ALEC\’s chief funders, the Koch brothers?
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The \’Party Of No\’ Acts Out Again, Won\’t Even Vote on EPA Nominee
Right-wing obstructionism reached another low today when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would not even show up to vote today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The spectacle was the equivalent of the six-year-old, willful diva-to-be slamming the doll on the ground and…