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Rick Perry’s Climate Censorship Takes Cues from George W. Bush

October 13, 2011

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News broke on Monday that the Texas government was working to censor a scientific report that mentioned the impacts of manmade climate change on Galveston Bay. The impacts it described, which included incr…

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U.S. Congress to Turn 90% of its Trash Into Energy

October 13, 2011

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The policies that Congressmen and women adhere to in their everyday lives occasionally act as a useful reflection of the political trends pulling at the nation in general. Consider earlier this year, when invig…

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62% of Republicans Want Their Leaders to Leave the EPA Alone

October 12, 2011

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I’ve used just about all of the blog-powers vested in me to make this point: Americans want the government to protect them from pollution. They just do. Last year, a poll found that 77% of Americans wanted…

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GOP Vows To End Nonexistent Farm Dust Regulations

October 11, 2011

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Bold and cunning Republicans in both the House of Reps and the Senate have undertaken a noble new cause: Getting rid of “farm dust regulations” so that poor ol’ farmers can get a break from the dastardly Environmental P…

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Regulating Coal Ash Could Create 28,000 Jobs

October 11, 2011

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The EPA has been considering stricter regulations of coal ash, the toxic solid waste from coal power plants that the public was largely unaware of before the

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Rick Perry’s Attack Ad: Obama & Romney are ‘Carbon Copies’ (Video)

October 10, 2011

There’s no love lost between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, the two supposed frontrunners in the GOP presidential primary race. Ever since Perry hurled himself upon the scene and was instantly proclaimed a serious contender by a breathless, conflict-see…

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Are We About to Start Geoengineering Up in Here?

October 4, 2011

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Geoengineering is a frightening prospect. It should be, anyway. Intentionally attempting to engineer the planet’s climate system by seeding cloud cover or scattering reflective particulates or so forth might seem harm…

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GOP Rep: America "Can’t Compete With China" on Clean Energy

October 4, 2011

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Today, the Republican representative leading the Solyndra hearings took the Obama administration to task for funding any clean energy projects at all.

“I think the administration is putting taxpaye…

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Graph of the Day: Cost of Solyndra’s Failure Vs. Cost of Military ‘Boondoggles’

September 16, 2011

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Everybody’s talking about the Solyndra bankruptcy, mostly because opponents of clean energy want us to be talking about them. It’s a non-scandal of the truest kind, despite what Fox’s breathless pund…

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GOP Congress Has Made 125 Anti-Environment Votes This Year So Far.

September 13, 2011

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I posit the following as general truisms:

The average citizen enjoys living in places with clean water and blue skies. The average citizen values public health and safe drinking water. The avera…

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