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20 Dollar Per Ton Carbon Tax Could Reduce Deficit by $1.2 Trillion in 10 Years
With the election in full swing and Republicans campaigning against climate action, talks of using a carbon tax as a deficit reduction tool may be halted.
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Romney Energy Plan: Hot Cow Manure on Planet’s Open Wounds
We are left with this chilling conclusion: Mitt Romney is willing to risk the lives of billions of people, and a climate that could end modern civilization, so that …
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Warm Year
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Economists Identify the 100 Top Air Polluters and Highlight the Economics of Environmentalism
What do General Electric, Koch Industries, Bayer, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil all have in common? They all rank in the top ten of the Toxic 100.
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Karl Rove: Assembling the Death Star to American Democracy
Karl Rove's obsession with permanent Republican control of all three branches of government was evident when he and the author were both just high school students.u00a0Now Rove is closer …
How Coal Brought Us Democracy, and Oil Ended It: Lessons From the New Book “Carbon Democracy”
Long before politicians mewled helplessly about the power of u201cBig Oilu201d, carbon-based fuels were shaping our very political, legal, intellectual, and physical structures.
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What Motivates Rejection of (Climate) Science?
New study shows a strong correlation between free market ideology and the tendency to reject climate science research.
Getting Action on Climate: Who Is Winning and How?
The Democracy Center has just released a new series of investigations looking up close at seven citizen action campaigns from around the world that take aim at the climate …
Tar Sands Blockade Strikes Again, But TransCanada Thinks It Can Just Reroute
Does TransCanada really think that 1,200 people were arrested at the White House just to protest the pipeline route?
Chicago Teachers Launch Strike for Better Pay, Benefits and Work Conditions
The 30,000-strong Chicago Teachers Union strikes for the first time in a quarter century.