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Category - Environment
The House Vote on The Climate Bill
The House is getting very close to passing the historic climate bill. Watch the proceedings here...
Why Do Republicans Hate The Red States?
The Waxman-Markey climate bill (awful name, by the way) is estimated to create 1.7 million new jobs...
It's Gonna Be Tight
It's largely flown under the radar, but the Waxman-Markey climate bill could come to a vote today...
Here Comes The Sludge
Sorry. That was an awful headline. Not quite as awful as this: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that...
The Hockey Stick
This atmospheric carbon chart via Kevin Drum ought to be mustering a collective pants-shitting:...
Super Stupid
Via Cory Doctorow, the plastic grocery bag people (who are blighting the land with their awfulness)...
But He's Just Like Bush!
No he's effing not. This for example: “For the first time in history, we have set in motion a...
New Emission Standards
Via Politico: The national emissions policy for autos, which will ramp up to a new standard of...
Clean Coal Fakery
Something's been bothering me about that American Coalition for Clean Coal commercial that runs all...
Denier Stupid
Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ) said on Morning Joe today that "the evidence isn't in" on the...
Stupid Pundit Tricks
Pat Buchanan repeats the tired old line that record cold temperatures in several cities means there...
The Prius Myth
There's a myth, repeated today by George Will, that Toyota sells the Prius at a loss. Not true. In...
Proud Ignorance
Plate tectonics is something we learn in junior high school. And yet Congressman Joe Barton (R...
He's a Son of a Bitch, But He's Our Son of a Bitch
An article on the melting of the Arctic ice cap from today's Washington Post specifically...
George Will Spreading More Hackery
Even though the last time George Will wrote about the climate crisis, he got his principle facts...
The Eye of Sauron
Neil Peart's latest online essay is one of his best. It documents his quest to find the source of a...
Three Mile Island
Today is the 30 year anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant crisis. Walter...
Loud Noises – Earth Hour Edition
Tonight at 8:30 is Earth Hour when everyone around the world is supposed to turn out their lights...
Disconnected from Reality
Sea levels are rising faster than scientists expected. Yet 40 percent of Americans (and rising)...