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Thanks to coal, U.S. CO2 emissions are up. Good thing Obama’s about to regulate coal plants.
A five-year decline in U.S. CO2 emissions is over, and the main culprit is increased coal burning.
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The senator and the moose: Whitehouse makes the climate case in New Hampshire
Rhode Island's Senator Who Cares About Climate goes on a fact-finding mission to the Granite State -- and finds it's all about the moose.
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Beetles and climate change helped create this huge wildfire in Alaska
A megafire broke out this week along Alaska's southern coast, which could be a sign of what's to come for the warming state.
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Obama’s foreign policy doctrine includes climate action
In his speech, he made a brief call for multilateral cooperation on a climate treaty, but he should have said more about the serious threats posed by global warming.
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Michelle Obama’s food fight with GOP: Schools just want to have funds
Politicians fighting over funding for school lunches are lurching toward loosening rules when they should really get serious about boosting funding.
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Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World in Wind Power
By J. Matthew Roney Denmark produced one third of its electricity from the wind in 2013. In no other country has wind’s share of annual electricity generation yet topped 30 […]
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Show Me Solar: Missouri’s Opportunity for Solar Power
What can solar power do for a single state? How about 21% of its energy, $14 billion in economic activity, and over 150,000 jobs. At a discount to existing electricity […]
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Sea-level rise is already eating our coasts
Facing the floodwaters are 94,000 miles of U.S. coastline and more than $1 trillion in infrastructure.
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Why the Koch brothers hate Detroit
The Koch-funded group Americans for Prosperity is trying to kill a deal that would rescue Detroit from financial ruin.
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These are the states where climate hawk Tom Steyer will wage political war
Steyer's super PAC plans to spend $100 million on races in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.