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This Roller Coaster Never Stops
Waking up every morning thinking about how to move us beyond coal always comes with its share of highs and lows. But last week was an exceptionally wild roller coaster, […]
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The Political and Technical Advantages of Distributed Renewable Power
A serialized version of ILSR‘s new report, Democratizing the Electricity System, Part 3 of 5. Click for Part 1 or Part 2. The Political and Technical Advantages of Distributed Generation […]
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Obama secretly saves world while environmentalists protest
While Bill McKibben and Daryl Hannah were getting hauled away in handcuffs in protest of the Obama administration’s decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, that same administration was quietly […]
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The Tar Sands Action (smile)
My mind has been a jumble the last couple of days as I’ve tried to think about what I would be saying in this column. I knew I would […]
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Ozone madness
On Friday, President Obama announced that he had asked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the final National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone pollution, which she and her expert agency had sent to the White House for review. The president's announcement is terribly bad news, and terribly bad policy, on several scores.
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Friday music blogging: Adam Hurst and an elegy for hope 'n' change
Today's news of Obama's unforced, unnecessary, unforgivable capitulation on public health has me down in the dumps -- so here's a sad song.
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Corporate Polluters Need Not Worry, Obama's Doing their Dirty Work
Corporate polluters don't have to worry about dismantling the<a href=”http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/”> <em>Clean Air Act</em>,</a> it appears that President Obama is doing it for them. <p>As Americans prepare for the holiday weekend, […]
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The Economics of Distributed Renewable Power
A serialized version of ILSR‘s new report, Democratizing the Electricity System, Part 2 of 5. Click for Part 1. The Economics of Distributed Generation The falling cost of distributed renewable […]
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Breaking: Major victory — deal reached to retire old, dirty Potomac River Coal Plant
Only a few short weeks ago, I stood on a boat in front of the ancient, dirty, and deadly GenOn coal plant in Alexandria, Virginia, and introduced Michael R. Bloomberg, […]
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Shining light on Obama’s tar sands pipeline decision
This week, President Obama will find hundreds more people in front of the White House – us included – willing to go to jail for peacefully protesting the President’s short-sighted […]
