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Barcelona climate talks start off on best possible footing, finally
No, developed countries didn’t in fact finally live up to their historical responsibility by committing to deep emissions cuts or significant financing to help developing countries deal with the…
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Congress starts pushing to get cruise industry to clean up its act
Earlier today Congressman Sam Farr (D-CA) and Senator Dick Durb…
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Controversial nomination advances out of committee
On Thursday, October 8, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed the nomination of controversial nominee Joseph Pizarchik to be the head of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation…
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Air pollution protections under threat
Great Lakes exemption could derail limits for ship pollution For several years, Friends of the Earth and various other environmental groups, air regulators, and public health organizations…
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Video: How an energy bill REALLY becomes a law
Click “START” to watch the story of how polluter lobbyists turned the House’s Waxman-Markey clean energy bill into a toothless law.
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The congressional energy bill needs to be fixed
How the clean energy bill was hijacked by lobbyists When the House of Representatives started working on a clean energy bill last winter, we were optimistic. After all, our country had jus…