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Articles by Kate Sheppard

Kate Sheppard was previously Grist's political reporter. She now covers energy and the environment for The Huffington Post. Follow her on Twitter.

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  • Jeb Bush still skeptical about climate change

    Jeb Bush, the former governor of a hurricane-plagued, sea-level-rise-threatened state sports a NOAA cap. That’s the same NOAA whose scientists have documented the threat of global warming.NOAA.govAs bad as George W. Bush’s environmental record was, W. at least got around to acknowledging that climate change is real and human-caused before leaving office. Yet his little […]

  • McCaskill says House climate bill will sink in Senate

    Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) doesn’t think that the climate and energy bill that passed the House last month stands much of a chance in the Senate. And if climate legislation is going to pass the Senate, it would have to have a “very gradual implementation,” McCaskill told conservative Missouri talk radio host Mike Ferguson on […]

  • Nuclear + cap-and-trade = bipartisan climate bill?

    Getting a climate bill through the Senate with some Republican support might be easier than many observers think, but only if it comes with provisions providing a big boost for nuclear energy. That was one takeaway from Tuesday’s Senate committee hearing on climate change legislation, the first of a series that the Environment and Public […]

  • Senate panel to kick off climate hearings on Tuesday

    The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee this week will begin the task of drafting climate and energy legislation, picking up where the House left off after passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act at the end of June. A hearing called for Tuesday will look at different “legislative tools” for addressing climate change. […]