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January 2011
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An Unlikely Front Line in U.S. Climate Politics
Versions of the same intra-governmental political battles set to play out at the federal level over greenhouse gas regulations are already playing out at the state level — and in some pretty unlikely places.
BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto Cartoon Panel, Leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto.
The Billionaire Brothers Who Make Us Sick
I don’t know a word that means the exact opposite of environmentalist — but then we didn’t really need one until the Kochs came along.
Pickens Pontificates on Energy on the Daily Show
In the last two and a half years, Texas billionaire oil man-turned domestic energy policy troubadour, T. Boone Pickens, has spent $80 million of his own money promoting his plan to ween the U.S. off OPEC oil. And in that time, we have gotten no closer to reaching that goal.
Getting to Obama’s Goal of 1 Million Electric Vehicles
In Tuesday night’s State of the Union, President Obama reiterated his goal of being the first country to put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015, a plan he first put forth in 2008. And in the day since, the Obama administration began to expand on how it proposes to reach that goal.
