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No Climate Change Bill This Year, Says Obama Adviser

The Associated Press | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON (AP)- President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year. "...

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Study: Climate Bill's Benefits Far Outweigh Costs

Wall Street Journal | Keith Johnson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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So much of the wailing and gnashing of teeth around the climate bill in Congress revolves around the costs of curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. What a...

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Sahil Kapur

Inhofe: Nothing Could Make Me Vote For Climate Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

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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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Why We Overestimate the Costs of Tackling Climate Change

David Roberts | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

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David Roberts

Do you believe the American people can figure out innovative, profitable ways to transition to clean energy if they put their shoulders to it?

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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

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

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The Climate Gap: Is Federal Climate Policy Doing Enough to Narrow the Disparities for People of Color and the Poor?

Rachel Morello-Frosch | Posted 06.30.2009 | Green

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Rachel Morello-Frosch

Extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts and floods as well as increased air pollution and higher prices for basic necessities will disproportionately impact people of color and the poor.

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Washington Post Columnist Steven Pearlstein Gets Climate Bill Wrong

David Roberts | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

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David Roberts

Pearlstein's hyperbole is par for the course these days. Lots of people have taken to exaggerating the complexity and opacity of the Waxman-Markey bill based primarily on its page length.

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Joe Barton Begins "Guerrilla Warfare" On Climate Bill

The Washington Independent | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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The markup session for the landmark Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill is underway in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live webcast from C-...

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What Are the Carbon Costs in Your State?

Mike Sandler | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

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Mike Sandler

Unfortunately, the economics of estimating how much climate policy might cost households has almost as many variables and feedback loops as climate science.

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