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New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle

Bill Maher | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, Wall Street, Ondemand, Jon Cryer, Cap-and-Trade, Washington, Max Baucus, Youtube, Medicare, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ground Zero, Fdr, Bill Maher New Rule, Real Time With Bill Maher, Bill Maher, Comedy News

If America can't get its act together, it must lose the bald eagle as our symbol and replace it with the YouTube video of the puppy that can't get up. As long as we're pathetic, we might as well act like it's cute.

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A Goal for Copenhagen: Keep the Focus on Enforcement

Peter Lehner | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, Fundecor, Governance, Nicaragua, Rainforest, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Costa Rica, Green News

There's no silver bullet that can resolve the carbon emissions problem in Copenhagen, but there are steps that can be taken to help developing nations strengthen their institutions and, with that, enforcement.

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Small Oil Refineries Pull Support For Climate Change Bill

HuffingtonPost | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Cap and Trade, Lobbyblog, Climate Change Bill, Business News

The Hill reports that small oil refineries -- once a strong ally of the climate change bill -- are now withdrawing their support for the legislation. ...

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ACCCE Coal Lobby Targeting Key Democrats In Senate Climate Debate

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, America's Power Army, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Astroturf, Americans for Balanced Energy Choices, Senate Climate Bill, Accce, Green News

America's Power Army, the sister organization to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, sent an email this week to its Astroturf "army" laying out the coal lobby's plans to barrage key Democratic targets.

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Pawlenty Flips On Climate Change With Sudden Right Turn

Minnesota Public Radio | Tom Scheck | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama Cap and Trade, Cap and Trade, President Obama Climate Change, Climate Change, Pawlenty Clean Energy, Pawlenty Green House Gas Emissions, Clean Energy, Tim Pawlenty, Pawlenty Cap and Trade, Pawlenty Climate Change, Politics News

President Obama is promising new steps toward capping greenhouse gas emissions, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty is backing away from his earlier support for new...

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Murkowski Staffer Confuses 'Reporter' With 'Tape Recorder'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Lisa Murkowski, Cap and Trade, U.S. Senate, Environmental Policy, Media Criticism, Media News

There is so much to enjoy in this piece on Enviroknow, in which a blogger contacts Senator Lisa Murkowski's office to ask about a bogus set of talking...

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Murkowski Spokesman Admits GOP Talking Point Is Completely Irrelevant

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Waxman-Markey, Senator Murkowski, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Politics, Robert Dillon, Treasury, Green Energy, Cap and Trade, Global Warming, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Political News, Green News

I followed up with many Republican politicians on their factually incorrect statements regarding cap and trade. The most interesting response -- by far -- came by way of a series of increasingly heated emails.

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Treasury Memo Hysteria Shows Media Incapable of Screening Out Junk

David Roberts | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Administration, Allowance Auctions, Cap and Trade, Treasury Department, Glenn Beck, Media, Chris Horner, Climate Change, Cei, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Green News

Last week, a CBS blogger reported a completely and utterly misleading figure on cap-and-trade that spread like wildfire from right-wing blogs, to Glenn Beck, and even the Washington Post.

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Eight GOP Politicians Parrot False $1,761 Talking Point on Costs of Climate Bill

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Treasury Department, Waxman-Markey, Senator Murkowski, Senator Inhofe, Fred Upton, John Boehner, Politics, Roy Blunt, Media, Mitt Romney, League of Conservation Voters, Green, Mike Pence, Cbs, Global Warming, Cap and Trade, Politifact, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Political News, Green Living, Wonk Room, Green News, Congressional Budget Office, Politico, Washington Post, Media Criticism, Environmental Defense, Value Voters Summit, Senator Alexander, Deniers, Green News

When your position is based on ignoring science to prop up polluting industries -- as is the case for many Republican politicians -- you have little choice but to cite misleading statistics to make your point.

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Glenn Beck's Bizarre Climate Bill Rant: Calls FDR "Spooky," Pretends He's A Southern Belle (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Video, Video, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Green News

On Thursday, Glenn Beck latched on to a discredited argument being promoted by conservatives that the climate bill would increase personal income taxe...

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Let's Make a Deal: Beltway Edition

Michael Winship | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Richard Durbin, American Banking Association, Cap and Trade, Politics, Insttitute for Policy Studies, President Obama, Mortgage Crisis, Banks, Bank Bailout, US Chamber of Commerce, Cramdown, Campaign Finance, Business News

While executives are dancing with your dollars, the foreclosures they helped to bring on continue to rise. Many banks are dragging their feet, enjoying the bailout bucks but failing to spread them around.

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Too Good To Be True?

Robert Stavins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Common Property Resources, Free Rider Problem, Cost-Effectiveness, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Regulation, Global Climate Policy, Externalities, California, AB 32, Energy Efficiency, U.S. Senate, Waxman-Markey Legislation, Cap-and-Trade, Environmental Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, Green News

I had thought that arguments about massive "free lunches" in the energy efficiency and climate domain had long since been laid to rest. The debates in California (and some of the rhetoric in Washington) prove otherwise.

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Carbon Offsets Are A CROC

Daniel Kessler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Offsets, Greenpeace, Aces, Croc, Cap and Trade, Global Warming, Funny Videos, Green News

Carbon offsets often do not deliver promised results. The use of these sorts of offsets would not only give big polluters a giant loophole, it could actually increase global warming pollution.

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Mark Kirk Flip-Flops Mid-Speech After Boos (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Kirk, Cap and Trade, Video Mark Kirk Booed, Illinois Senate Race, Illinois Senate 2010, Politics News

The Plum Line's Greg Sargent pulls video from a GOP Rally in DuPage County, Illinois, that features GOP Representative and would-be Illinois Senator M...

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Obama vs. Krugman: Five Reasons the President's Right on Carbon Tariffs

Jake Colvin | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: International Trade, Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Copenhagen 2009, Climate, Waxman-Markey, Globalization, Free Trade, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Unfccc, Carbon Tariffs, Climate Bill, Green News

President Obama and Congress must make sure that U.S. climate policy efforts encourage other countries to reduce their carbon emissions and spur global demand for U.S. clean energy technologies.

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A Big Breakthrough on Green Jobs

Billy Parish | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate, Green Jobs, Clean Energy, Bipartisan, New York, Republican, Cap, Energy Efficiency, Working Families Party, Trade, Climate Change, Weatherization, David Patterson, Aces, Carbon Credits, Bipartisanship, Green News

The New York State Senate and Assembly rose above petty politics last week to pass legislation on climate and energy, setting a precedent for bipartisanship and a sensible cap and trade system.

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Hopeville in Autumn

James Campion | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Address to Congress, David Brooks, Health Care Reform, Cap and Trade, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

It is a speech Obama should have given three months ago. It was nothing more than a pep talk, a call to arms. What was needed was a final summation.

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Tax or Trade to Cut Carbon?

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Green News

The key problem with using a carbon tax to curb demand and thus reduce emissions, is that we have very poor understanding of how the consumers will react to the higher price

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Baucus Makes A Grab For Climate Bill

Politico | Lisa Lerer | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Barbara Boxer, Senate Finance Committee, John Kerry, Max Baucus, Medicare, Healthcare, Climate Bill, Politics News

For liberal Democrats unhappy with the way Max Baucus is handling health care reform, here's another dose of bad news: He's got his hands on climate a...

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Fox News Teamed with Big Biz Astroturf Group to Force Out Van Jones

Adele Stan | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Resisnet, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Cap-and-Trade, Americans for Prosperity, Grassfire, Glenn Beck, Mike Pence, Rupert Murdoch, Van Jones Glenn Beck, Van Jones Resigns, Politics News

The racism and red-baiting suffered by Jones at the hands of Beck and his admirers are simply key elements in a marketing strategy designed to serve Very Big Business.

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Barbara Boxer And Colleagues Feel The Heat On Cap And Trade

blog.newsweek.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade Legislation, Cap and Trade, Barbara Boxer, Environmentalists, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Green News

Later today, more than 320 environmental and energy groups plan to deliver a letter to Calif. Sen. Barbara Boxer and her colleagues on the Senate Envi...

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Poll: Americans support Obama on energy issues

AP | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Polls, Cap and Trade, Barack Obama, President Obama, Energy Legislation, Greenhouse Gases, Energy Legislation Poll, Green News

WASHINGTON — A new poll says most Americans support the way President Barack Obama is dealing with energy issues, including his plan to limit gr...

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House Republicans Targeted In New Ads For Voting Against The Climate Bill (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Clean Energy, Green Energy, New Climate Change Ads, Climate Change, Aces, Clean Energy Legislation, Green News

On Tuesday, progressive groups released new attack ads and announced they are spending over $1 million to target 5 Republicans who voted against the h...

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WATCH: Front Goup "Energy Citizens" Locks Out Real Grassroots: Why Does Big Oil Hate America?

Andy Wilson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Though the Netroots has gotten the message loud and clear: these are really just company picnics, not uprisings of real grassroots support

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Carbon Traders Arrested For Tax Fraud

nytimes.com | James Kanter | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Tax Fraud, Carbon Trading Tax Fraud, Carbon Trading, Energy, EU Cap and Trade, Green News

British officials said the people arrested could be part of an organized group that operated a network of companies trading large volumes of the permi...

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