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If you want to pass climate legislation, fix U.S. politics
Cap-and-trade failed because U.S. politics is broken, among other reasons. Restoring democracy must be part of the road forward for climate hawks.
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Watch seriously endangered baby birds take their first steps
Spoon-billed sandpipers are super-adorable, and there are only 100 breeding pairs left in the wild.
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You can see North Dakota’s oil fracking fields from space
What a handy signal to alien races that they should have nothing to do with us.
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Did Google kill a donkey in Botswana?
It looks … dead. In fact, it looks … like it got RUN OVER BY THE STREET VIEW CAR.
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
By Janet Larsen The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop was largely because […]
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Ken Cuccinelli and Dominion Power Move to Repeal Virginia RPS
Breaking: Cuccinelli and Dominion Move to Repeal Virginia’s Clean Electricity Standard Proposed legislation would harm environment and, opponents say, constitutes a confession that Dominion has accepted $77 million from ratepayers […]
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The road forward from cap-and-trade
After diagnosing what went wrong on cap-and-trade, political scientist Theda Skocpol suggests one way to proceed. It's not a very good one -- so here's an alternative.
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Somehow horse meat made it into a bunch of burgers in Ireland and the U.K.
French people might enjoy horse meat every now and again, but the British, as a rule, do not. Nor do the Irish.
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Virginia AG Cuccinelli leads charge to yank renewable energy credits
It's certainly got nothing to do with his political ambitions, of course.
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Broad support and $1 will get a pol a cup of coffee
Public support for action on climate change keeps increasing -- but nothing will happen without a loud, active, well-funded faction threatening to punish intransigent politicians at the ballot box.
