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Thousands Make Last Plea to Include Climate Change in Presidential Debates
Climate issues are absent this election, but research shows that merely mentioning a topic during the TV debates could help elevate it in voters' minds.
Obama Versus Romney: Everything You Need to Know About Where the Candidates Stand on Energy Policy
There are stark differences between the two presidential candidates that must be discussed so Americans have a clear view of the energy path each candidate would lead us down.
Texas Tar Sands Tree-Sit Launches to Halt Keystone XL Indefinitely
Two blockaders locked down to construction equipment in Winnsboro, Texas, to defend the nine people now occupying a tree village on Texas landowner David Daniel's property.
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.