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When it comes to addressing climate change, Job One has to be getting off carbon. There are multiple ways to go: wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, nuclear, biofuels —�and hydrogen.
Here’s what ...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Jan 12, 2023 at 06:17 AM PST
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Cara Zelaya, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Subscribe to...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Apr 29, 2020 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Wingnut Wishlist Cabinet in Waiting:
Kobach, Sessions, Flynn, Pompeo, etc
Every indication is that Trump intends a government more extreme than his campaign.
Checks and Balances:
How do we check the power of the federal executive to...
by benamery21
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on Tue Nov 22, 2016 at 10:28 PM PST
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Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
An Executive of a major shale gas development company has conceded what scientists have been saying for years: global shale gas development has the potential to wreak ...
by Steve Horn
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on Tue May 20, 2014 at 08:09 AM PDT
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Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
The American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) model bill for disclosure of chemicals injected into the ground during the controversial hydraulic fracturing (“...
by Steve Horn
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on Wed Feb 19, 2014 at 01:31 PM PST
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Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
The conservative UK-based Centre for Policy Studies recently published a study on the climate change impacts of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for shale gas. The ...
by Steve Horn
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on Mon Dec 16, 2013 at 10:50 AM PST
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Alongside releasing its controversial findings on fugitive methane emissions caused by hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on September 16, University of Texas-Austin also unveiled an industry-stacked ...
by Steve Horn
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on Wed Sep 18, 2013 at 09:41 AM PDT
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Today, the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources released a study funded by the Environmental Defense Fund and the natural gas industry that stated two things: that the sample size it looked ...
by Phil Radford II Greenpeace
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on Tue Sep 17, 2013 at 07:46 AM PDT
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The long-awaited Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)-sponsored hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) fugitive methane emissions study is finally out. Unfortunately, it’s another case of “frackademia�
by Steve Horn
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on Mon Sep 16, 2013 at 05:13 PM PDT
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Welcome to J Town!
A gathering place to promote posts and projects, chat about the news, check on the weather (and brag about yours!) and waste spend a little time. Bring your music, your news ...
by JanF
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on Sun Oct 28, 2012 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Bloomberg reports :
France, which depends on nuclear ...
by davidwalters
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on Tue Aug 30, 2011 at 08:41 AM PDT
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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet .
Home to 25 percent ...
by NourishingthePlanet
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on Fri Jun 03, 2011 at 06:25 AM PDT
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There's been a lot of tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth lately about the utter helplessness of the Obama Administration to even pretend to do something about the accelerating climate catastrophe.
by converger
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on Tue Oct 05, 2010 at 04:55 PM PDT
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As we head into what looks to be an... ummm... exciting news week, it seems like a short review of last weeks frantic attempt to salvage US financial markets is in order.
by converger
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on Sun Oct 21, 2007 at 11:33 PM PDT
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With our narrow victory for common sense in the Supreme Court, the one that upholds the radical notion that regulatory agencies should, um, regulate, the fight to actually do something about ...
by converger
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on Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 10:20 PM PDT
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