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• How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

  Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) [UPDATED] 2

  Posted 1 day, 11 hours ago

  Sen. Arlen Specter had been considered a fence sitter on climate legislation, but on Nov. 5 he sided with all but one of the Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee in voting to move forward with the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. Read More

• EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade 9

  Posted 1 day, 12 hours ago By David Roberts

  Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel are EPA attorneys who have taken up advocating against cap-and-trade on behalf of rebated carbon taxes, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed. They also posted a video to YouTube making many of the same arguments at somewhat greater length. Now the EPA has instructed them to take the video down by the close of business today, at pain of disciplinary action from EPA ethics officials, and to submit any future drafts to EPA officials before posting. Read More

• How will senators vote on a climate bill?

  Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) 0

  Posted 1 day, 12 hours ago

  Sen. Dianne Feinstein is expected to vote in favor of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. In a letter to a Grist reader, she doesn't explicitly endorse the bill, but she does say it "represents an important step." Read More

• Barcelona outcome: White House strategy is plea for more time 1

  Posted 1 day, 17 hours ago By Keith Schneider

  The Barcelona climate talks wrapped up on Friday with the U.S. making a bid for additional time to get a climate plan in place. Read More

• Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans—Part 2 0

  Posted 1 day, 15 hours ago By Daniel J. Weiss

  The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA), by an 11-1 vote. Earlier this week, we outlined six benefits of the bill and explained why the bill should be passed by the committee. Here are nine more benefits as the legislation moves forward. Read More

• Another coal plant bites the dust 1

  Posted 1 day, 16 hours ago By Bruce Nilles

  Minnesota and South Dakota residents stopped a coal-fired power plant project and prevented about 4.7 million tons of CO2, or the equivalent of the pollution from roughly 670,000 cars, from entering the atmosphere every year. Read More

• Activists launch climate hunger strike 1

  Posted 1 day, 17 hours ago By Agence France-Presse

  Climate activists from around the world will launch a hunger strike on Friday, describing their protest as a "moral reaction to an immoral situation" in the face of environmental catastrophe. Read More

• Umbra's Just Bee-Cause

  Tweet for the bees 0

  Posted 1 day, 18 hours ago By Umbra Fisk

  Find out how you can support honeybee research, the lazy way -- plus, a second chance to drink in Umbra's incredible bee hugs video! Read More

• The ‘party of no’ becomes the ‘party of slow’ 0

  Posted 2 days, 11 hours ago By Daniel J. Weiss

  Senate Republicans are demanding lengthy economic analyses of progressive clean energy policy, despite having spent careers voting for and against major energy legislation without such delay. Read More

• Reckless behavior

  For swine flu, forget origins and start thinking about practices 5

  Posted 2 days, 12 hours ago By Tom Philpott

  Amid a trickle of news and science about swine flu over the past week, I've been rethinking my position on the novel H1N1 virus that has now infected millions of Americans. Read More

• How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

  Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) 0

  Posted 2 days, 13 hours ago By Samantha Thompson

  Sen. Kay Hagan is not a shoo-in on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, but she appears to be leaning toward supporting it. Read More

• U.S.: missing R's and the point

  The Climate Post: The gods must be crazy 1

  Posted 2 days, 13 hours ago By Eric Roston

  Eric Roston takes a walk through the week's climate news -- and the problems facing India. Read More

• Cash for Clunkers brought us ... more clunkers! 11

  Posted 2 days, 14 hours ago By Jonathan Hiskes

• Soda lobby gets its game on 2

  Posted 2 days, 14 hours ago By Tom Laskawy

• Senate Democrats push climate bill through committee 1

  Posted 2 days, 14 hours ago By Agence France-Presse

• Seventh Generation launches anti-toxics campaign with wee gimmick 6

  Posted 2 days, 16 hours ago By Katharine Wroth

• Europe places outcome of Copenhagen squarely on Obama 2

  Posted 2 days, 19 hours ago By Brendan DeMelle

• Reactions to Al Gore’s book o’ solutions, “Our Choice” 9

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• Blowing up our clean energy future 1

  Posted 3 days, 2 hours ago By Nell Greenberg

• Gore on the Daily Show: extended dance remix 0

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• Consumer Reports finds BPA traces in common canned foods 10

  Posted 2 days, 22 hours ago By Tom Philpott

• What does recent Senate drama on the climate bill mean? Peak Boxer 5

  Posted 3 days, 2 hours ago By David Roberts

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