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Al Gore Explains How Call For Climate Change Action Is Similar To Civil Rights Movement (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy, An Inconvenient Truth, Coal, Renewable Resources, Solar Energy, Katie Couric, Fossil Fuels, Water Pollution, Health, Climate Change, Oil, Al Gore, Air Pollution, Un, Copenhagen, Climate Change Bill, Our Choice, Green News

The push for government action on climate change is like the US civil rights movement, according to former Vice President Al Gore. Both causes depende...

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Five Reasons Why We Don't Care About Climate Change

Lisa Bennett | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Global Warming Denial, Pew Poll Global Warming, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Change Bill, Green News
Lisa Bennett

Why are we ignoring the biggest threat in human history--or, as a future generation might put it, fiddling while Rome burns? First, we are not programmed to take future threats as seriously as immediate ones.

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If Deryl Metcalfe Thinks I'm a Traitor, He Must Resign

Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Climate Legislation, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Deryl Metcalfe, Climate Change Bill, Operation Free, Veterans, World News
Richard Allen Smith

I left home a week after my first child was born to serve my country honorably in Afghanistan, and Pennsylvania State Representative Deryl Metcalfe thinks I'm a traitor.

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Conservative Hunters And Fishermen Back Climate Change Legislation

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Fishing, Hunting, Climate Change Bill, Lobbying, Hunters Climate Change, Fishing Climate Change, Hunting Climate Change, Politics News

Hunters and fishers, afraid that global warming could hamper their favorite pastime, have stepped into the lobbying fray for climate change legislatio...

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Environmentalists Concerned That Senate Dems Will Permit Drilling In Climate Change Negotiations

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Climate Change, Lobbyblog, Climate Change Bill, Offshore Drilling, Business News

The Hill reports that environmentalists are expressing unease that Democrats will permit more offshore drilling in the Senate's climate change bill. ...

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Where Science and Politics Intersect: Time to Win in Congress on Climate Change

Margie Alt | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Global Warming, Senate Bill, Margie Alt, Climate Change, Climate Change Bill, Global Warming, Green News
Margie Alt

We have precious little time to deal with global warming before global warming deals with us. And the Senate Environment and Public Works bill is actually a good beginning.

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Money Walks, Fossil Fuel Talks

Richard Stuebi | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change Bill, Energy Policy, Copenhagen Climate Council, Copenhagen 2009, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Green News
Richard Stuebi

Over the coming months running up to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, it will be interesting to see which side can amass more force: finance or fossil fuels.

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Small Oil Refineries Pull Support For Climate Change Bill

HuffingtonPost | Jenna Staul | Posted 09.24.2009 | 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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The U.S. Climate Change Bill: International Trade Implications & China

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Wto, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Copenhagen 2009, China-Tariffs, Boarder Adjustment Measures, Tariffs, Climate Change, Congress, Climate Change Bill, Senate, Jake Caldwell, Special Interests, Green News
Elizabeth Lynch

Will additions to the Climate Change Bill maintain the competitiveness of U.S. industries, or are they attempts by certain industries to protect their profits?

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Natural Gas Hits A Roadblock In Energy Bill: Coal Lobby

The New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change Bill, Coal Lobby, Coal, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Politics, Natural Gas, Congress, Energy Bill, Energy, Clean Coal, Politics News

For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants -- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ...

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US Agriculture Interests Split Over Energy Bill

AP | MARGERY A. GIBBS | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Climate Change Bill, Climate Change Legislation, Farmers, Agriculture, Green News

OMAHA, Neb. — Climate change legislation before Congress could be an economic godsend to farmers and ranchers. Or it could be an enormous financ...

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Senate Delays Climate Change Bill

Roll Call | Emily Pierce | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Barbara Boxer, Senate Finance Committee, Climate Change Bill, John Kerry, President Obama, Politics News

The Senate debate on climate change will be delayed until later this fall, given that two key players have said they will not even introduce their bil...

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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

Read More: Taxes, Gas Prices, Cap and Trade, Senator Cornyn, Public Citizen, Jon Cornyn, Energy Citizen, Energy Legislation, Jobs, Texas, Costs, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Labor, Unemployment, Senator Hutchinson, Waxman-Markey, Climate Change Bill, Astroturf, Citizen, Green News
Andy Wilson

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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NRDC's Beach Report Out Today

Nancy Stoner | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Beachprotection, Beachwater, Beachreport, Waterprogram, Swimming, Beachwater Quality, Beaches, Climate Change, Travel, Oceans, Climate Change Bill, Best Beaches, Lakes, Green News
Nancy Stoner

I'm guessing human or animal waste in the waves that can send you running to the bathroom, doctor's office -- or worse -- the emergency room, isn't part of your get-a-way daydream.

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Clean Energy Debate Leads To Regional Divide

nytimes.com | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Congress, Solar, Wind Energy, Green, Wind, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Solar Energy, Evolving Energy Tech, Climate Change, Globak Warming, Climate Change Bill, Bill, Green News

While most lawmakers accept that more renewable energy is needed on the nation's grid, the debate over the giant climate-change and energy bill now be...

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Jason Linkins

Rob Gaudet, Key Climate Bill Opponent, Apparently Way Into Sasquatch

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, American-Climate-and-Security-Act, Climate Change, Aces, Cap and Tr8tors, Climate Change Bill, Bigfoot, Politics News

Climate change deniers tend to widely embrace all manners of pseudo-science. But the League Of Conservation Voters is wondering if the man behind the ...

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Senate Delays Work On Climate Change Bill By Months

Reuters | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change Bill, Barbara Boxer, Climate Bill Delayed, Senate Climate Bill, Senate Climate Change, Senate Delays Climate Bill, Environment and Public Works Committee, Climate Change, Politics News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when th...

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Sahil Kapur

Inhofe: Nothing Could Make Me Vote For Climate Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waxman-Markey Bill, Climate Change Bill, Barbara Boxer, Renewable Energy, Carbon Emissions, James Inhofe, Senate Climate Bill, Clean Energy, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Climate Change Bill Senate, Politics News

Senate Democrats are hoping to complete the task that their colleagues in the House began two weeks ago -- passing the most ambitious climate bill eve...

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Sam Stein

GOP Poised To Eat Its Own After Climate Bill's Passage

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republicans Eat Their Own, Republican Party, Eight Republicans, Climate Change Bill, Eight Lawmakers, Gop Cap and Trade, Gop Climate Change, Politics News

The passage of historic climate change legislation by the House of Representatives last Friday has thrust to the forefront a sharp debate within the R...

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After Precarious Climate Vote, Grassroots Pressure Needed More Than Ever

Bill Scher | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Waxman-Markey, Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Climate Change Bill, Green News
Bill Scher

The House passed the first comprehensive clean energy and climate protection bill on Friday, not on a wave of grassroots momentum, but last-minute cajoling by House leaders.

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Sam Stein

House Passes Historic Climate Change Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressives Climate Change, Climate Change, Waxman Markey, Al Gore Climate Change, Bill House, Progressive Community, Climate Change Bill, Tense Moments, Politics News

With Contributing Reporting By Jeff Muskus and Ryan Grim After a tense debate, in which the margin of success or failure never moved beyond a handful...

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Sam Stein

Union Makes Last-Minute Pitch For Climate Change Bill's Passage

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Climate Bill, Afl-Cio Climate Change, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Waxman Markey, Afl-Cio Community, Climate Change Bill, Politics News

With Congress expected to vote on a 1,201-page climate change bill on Friday, one of the country's largest unions is sending word to Democrats from co...

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Climate Bill Comes Down To A Handful Of Democrats

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT and DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pelosi Climate Change, Waxman Markey Bill, Nancy Pelosi, Climage Change, Waxman Markey, Nancy Pelosi Climate Change, Climate Change Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON — In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for...

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Jeff Muskus

Pelosi: Gore Not In D.C. Because It Wasn't "Energy Efficient"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Waxman-Markey, House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Climate-Change Bill, Climate Change, Politics News

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she's seeing "a great narrowing of the undecided" in favor of the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill this week. Not enough, h...

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Ryan Grim

Internal Memo: Nuclear Power Company Could Make A Billion A Year From Climate Change Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Exelon Power Plant, Exelon, Bernstein Research, Power Plant, Climate Change Bill, Nuclear Power Plant, John Rowe, Transparency, Politics News

Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power company, stands to rake in roughly an extra $1 billion to $1.5 billion a year if the House climate change b...

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