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Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: SheerWind, Damation, and More!

2013-05-20T15:36:20Z

We're At 400 PPM - Last Time THAT Happened, the Arctic was 14oF Warmer, says a new study, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress, indicating the planet ...

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Whatever Happened To California's 'Hydrogen Highway'?

2013-05-20T08:37:32Z

By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolle...

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Mary Anne Hitt: Big Victory: Minnesota's Landmark Clean Energy Standard Charts Course Beyond Dirty Energy

2013-05-17T16:03:55Z

Minnesota energy has begun a new chapter.
Minnesota has taken a first step in outlining the next big
leap forward in the state's sustainable energy fu...

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Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources 3: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

2013-05-17T09:13:27Z

Despite the fact that ExxonMobil is still a significant contrarian funder, the flurry of media interest in the company's funding agenda sparked by UCS's exposé died down soon after its release and remains feeble to this day. What happened?

Read more: American Enterprise Institute, Wind Power, Heritage Foundation, Rex Tillerson, Union of Concerned Scientists, Fossil Fuels, American Petroleum Institute, Exxon Mobil, Green News, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Manhattan Institute, Solar Power, Climate Change Denial, Media News

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - May 16, 2013

2013-05-16T18:32:27Z

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William Bradley: How Jerry Brown's California Budget Revision Is Playing

2013-05-15T17:35:47Z

Championing what he calls "prudence, not exuberance," Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday rolled out the annual "May Revise" of his proposed California state budget. How's it playing? Oh, and what's the play?

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Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources 2: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

2013-05-15T09:39:00Z

Part 2: To understand just how the fossil fuel industry has been laundering climate disinformation, there are few better places to start than with the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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Another Town Now Requires Solar Power For New Buildings

2013-05-15T08:36:34Z

From Mother Nature Network's Matt Hickman:

Sebastopol, an agri-artsy Sonoma outpost about an hour north of San Francisco, can now claim bragging ri...

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - May 14, 2013

2013-05-14T18:45:41Z

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Phyllis Cuttino: Federal R&D Can Spur Energy Innovation

2013-05-14T15:53:47Z

How can Washington ensure that U.S. businesses are poised to be global clean energy leaders? The critical step is to make long-term investment in energy innovation.

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Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: Acid Arctic, Hot Mama Nature, and More!

2013-05-13T11:45:54Z

By 2050, California & Southwest Could Have 100% Dry Years NASA Says, reports Climate Progress, according to a NASA analysis, which basically lays out ...

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Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

2013-05-13T09:37:50Z

Too often the news media have provided a platform for fossil fuel industry-funded think tanks and advocacy groups to make spurious claims about global warming and renewable energy and allowed them to pass themselves off as disinterested parties promoting free markets and limited government.

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William Bradley: California Gets a New Democrat: Defection of Recent Rising Star Among Latest Signs of Further GOP Decline

2013-05-10T20:28:37Z

One of the strangest things about California over the past decade is how little impact Arnold Schwarzenegger's two landslide wins for the governorship had on the Republican Party.

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Jonathan_Miller: Mr. President: Legalize Hemp!

2013-05-10T15:15:49Z

While support for legalizing hemp's distant cousin, marijuana, remains controversial, hemp is not marijuana. Legalized industrial hemp production could emerge as a prolific cash crop and a clean-burning alternative fuel.

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Tim Profeta: The Climate Post: Arctic Experiencing More Than Just Melt

2013-05-10T09:45:34Z

Increasing carbon dioxide emissions and freshwater runoff challenge the ocean's ability to neutralize acidification -- an imbalance caused by absorption of the greenhouse gas from the air.

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - May 9, 2013

2013-05-09T19:13:17Z

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Ron Pernick: MLPs and REITs Back in the Spotlight: Will Washington Finally Level the Playing Field?

2013-05-09T16:00:52Z

With hundreds of billions invested in conventional REITs and MLPs offering competitive returns, Washington should work in a bipartisan fashion to open up these investment structures as soon as possible.

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Frances Moore Lappe: Break the Ban: Tell a Solutions Story Today!

2013-05-09T15:01:07Z

With news of Keystone and tar sands and coal-crazy China, it's easy to think that renewable energy is going nowhere, but we'd be so wrong. Between 2008 and 2012, the U.S. nearly doubled its renewables capacity.

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Iowa Energy Giant Announces Major Wind Farm Project

2013-05-09T08:05:35Z

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's largest energy company announced plans Wednesday to spend $1.9 billion to install hundreds of wind turbines by the en...

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Vestas' Struggles Continue, More Layoffs To Come

2013-05-09T08:18:23Z

Vestas Wind Systems continued to see a bunch of negatives in its financial condition this quarter.
In all, the struggling Danish company with four ma...

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Adam Greenberg: The Youth Climate Vote: A New Force in Electoral Politics

2013-05-08T11:00:57Z

It has become clear that Keystone pipeline is a threat to jobs, health and safety, energy security, food and water security, smart growth, and the climate -- but that's not all it threatens: Now, Keystone XL is becoming toxic for politicians who support it.

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - May 7, 2013

2013-05-07T22:10:31Z

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Alison van Diggelen: The Amazing Race for Clean Energy - A Big Idea From Jennifer Granholm

2013-05-07T21:02:49Z

Let's face it, President Obama is struggling to get anything through Congress right now, never mind a national energy policy, so Granholm plans to create policy... from the bottom up.

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Tanya M. Acker: Big Thinking at Fortune 's "Brainstorm Green": Why Are We Politicizing Good, New Ideas?

2013-05-07T17:24:01Z

Sadly, rather than applauding this type of innovation we're instead stranded in a political culture that seems hell bent on demonizing it. Certainly, the development of alternative energy technologies has seen its mistakes and miscalculations but what industry hasn't?

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Terry Tamminen: Top 5 Green Gifts for Mother's Day

2013-05-07T14:08:37Z

Yes, it will take a very special gift to really say "I love you, mom" to our Mother Earth. Here are the top 5 green Mother's Day gifts that our favorite planet has recently received and which may provide you a few shopping ideas for the other moms in your life.

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