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With record cold temperatures in Europe, we’re once again hearing the guffaws of the deniers: “If it’s supposed to be global warming, how come it’s so cold?” The answer is complicated, but the following is a summary of research that shows how cold anomalies can form regionally, even when the planet as a whole is [...]
We told you last month how the incoming Republican Governors of Ohio and Wisconsin had rejected Federal money for high-speed rail lines that would have created jobs and jump-started regional economies. They put Tea Party, anti-government ideology ahead of job creation and economic development. Well, it’s now official: $1.2 billion in snubbed money will go [...]
It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 years since the release of Who Killed the Electric Car. And hard to believe how much has turned around in that short time – back then, electric cars were being destroyed, not built. Now, everyone has jumped on the bandwagon. In Revenge of the Electric Car, director Chris [...]
How closely will the new class of GOP senators and congressmen work with energy industry lobbyists? About as closely as you can possibly get without marrying them. Think Progress reports on the lucky 13 lobbyists (mostly from the energy industry) who are moving from K Street into new jobs – as Chiefs of Staff in [...]
It’s the subsidy that wouldn’t die. We told you last week how tax payments for corn ethanol producers were finally being given a merciful death, thanks to a confluence of conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats who hated the welfare program for corn farmers and big agriculture. Ethanol has been a disaster. Once pushed as an alternative [...]
Clean and renewable energy provisions that were set to expire have been added into the tax package. This is good news for progressives and friends of clean energy, depending on how you look at it – we get a pittance out of the near-trillion dollar deal, but if the monster was going to go through [...]
For a few days it looked like the controversial Food Safety Modernization Act (S 510) was dead in the water. Technical issues meant it was unlikely to make it through both houses in the last, crazy days of the current Congress. But it now appears that it WILL make it through – it’s been attached [...]
China shook up the stalled Cancun climate talks on Monday by offering to submit to a binding UN resolution on carbon emissions. It could be a breakthrough moment in the drive to limit global warming and climate change. One blogger asked, “Did China just save the world?” This is tricky, so let’s see if I [...]
(From our sister blog, Cleantechnica) As part of pushing for tax cuts for the rich, today Republicans filibustered (would not allow an up or down vote on) the Baucus Amendment that would have extended the deadline for solar projects to get a 30% cash grant. (Previous story: Solar Cash Grant Extension to be in Saturday’s Tax [...]
We told you yesterday about the push to let the insane subsidies for corn-based ethanol expire. A bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans have called for an end to the program, which makes neither environmental nor economic sense. Well, an equally bi-partisan group of corn-state Senators has responded by begging to keep their budget-busting program. [...]
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