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During the last eighteen months when everyone is complaining about inflation and especially gas and food prices, check this chart from Gas Buddy ;
by nailkeg
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 05:05 AM PDT
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The Nation has picked up a hit piece that I originally read on DKos. This is the latest in a long campaign of misinformation and court filings designed to stop people from switching away from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles. First, understand...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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There was a bit a of news last week from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That’s the 32-year-old process, backed by treaty, by which limits on carbon emissions are negotiated. To the government ministers and negotiators...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Republicans hated the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate-friendly provisions from the get-go. Not a single GOP senator or representative voted for it in 2022. Over the past few years, a number of congressional Republicans have given up outright...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Since Donald Trump first declared in early December that he wants to be a dictator on “day one,” his extralegal to-do list has varied. He’s said he wants to “close the border” and recently added a desire to set loose all the criminals who stormed the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 02:07 PM PDT
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At Sierra magazine, in a no-paywall article, veteran investigative reporter Rebecca Burns writes on Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition. Two or three paragraphs cannot...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Big Oil spent more money on lobbying in California in 2023 than any other year on record besides 2017. Big Oil spent $25,445,606 on lobbying in California in 2023 and $25,445,606 in 2017, according to the research team at Sunstone Strategies in their...
by Dan Bacher
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 01:30 PM PST
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Half a century ago last month, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act, which, in a move that would be unthinkable today, the Senate had passed unanimously and the House of Representatives approved in a 390-12 vote. As President Joe...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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CO2 leaps. Will COP28 finally get it together or will it just be one more round of Carry On Pumping? In a decade or so, the summer of 2023 will be looked back on as a beautiful, cool, enjoyable time. We will tell each other, "Those were the days." That is likely to be the case whether or not we Earthlings do finally get it together to take the actions...
by Meteor Blades
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 07:56 AM PST
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As you can see from its cover, the UNEP team that put together Emissions Gap Report 2023 went a bit snarky (by government standards) with the image and title—Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again). Snarky...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 08:24 AM PST
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NOTE: Earth Matters will not appear on November 19 and 26. It will return December 3. One hundred fifteen years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Winters v. United States that American Indian tribes had an inherent right to water because treaties...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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First, a caveat: We need to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels and move toward renewable energy sources, for economic, national security and especially climate change reasons. We have made some progress especially under Biden and with the new IRA...
by berglandjournalist
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on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 02:15 PM PST
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This is an opinion piece, and one that I copied (and modified)�over from one of my Israeli friends (credit: Shai Eden, though he isn’t on here). The idea behind it, while speculation, could shed ...
by shhrz
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 08:30 AM PDT
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Apparently eager to keep the chaos going, House Republicans have put forth budget distractions instead of solutions that leadership from both parties agreed on earlier this year. The Biden administration has made it clear that all new amendments...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 07:55 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 07:54 AM PST
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'A setup for disaster': CA legislation requiring companies to pay for oil, gas well cleanup in limbo by Mark Olalde
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by ProPublica
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly categorized compilation of links and excerpts from Daily Kos environmentally related posts. Any posts that are included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 08:06 AM PDT
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Two new studies about the fossil fuel industry were published this past week. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) found that the G20 nations pumped $1.4 trillion into explicit subsidies for the industry in 2022. In its study...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Former Vice President Mike Pence released a new campaign video that is supposed to lay out his plan for energy independence. So what does it consist of? Pence filling up his gas-guzzling truck with … gas. If you enjoy the experience of cringing for an...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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A really good movie draws me into its world and has me seeing and feeling the place, the time, and the circumstance of its lead characters. I feel a personal connection to them, empathize with their plight, and their story echoes around inside me for...
by Daverhagen
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on Mon Aug 07, 2023 at 07:26 AM PDT
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