Articles by Lisa Hymas
Lisa Hymas is director of the climate and energy program at Media Matters for America. She was previously a senior editor at Grist.
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Energy and environment in the GOP platform: They said what?
We read the whole 62-page Republican platform so you don't have to. Here are the good bits, by which we mean the bad bits.
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![Julian Castro, left, mayor-elect of San Antonio, pauses during a visit with his brother, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, right, in the Texas House of Representatives Wednesday, May 27, 2009, in Austin, Texas.]()
![Julian Castro, left, mayor-elect of San Antonio, pauses during a visit with his brother, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, right, in the Texas House of Representatives Wednesday, May 27, 2009, in Austin, Texas.]()
Meet Julian and Joaquin Castro, rising Democratic stars with a strong green streak
San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, who'll be giving the keynote at the Democratic convention, and his twin brother Joaquín, who's running for Congress, are both big advocates for clean energy.
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Romney’s energy plan: How many times can you say ‘oil’?
Mentions of oil: 154. Mentions of climate: 0.
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Todd Akin is a moron on climate change too
Todd Akin, GOP Senate candidate in Missouri, is not only fundamentally deluded about the basic facts of women's reproductive systems. He's also fundamentally deluded about the basic facts of climate change.
