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Copen-update

Posted in Global Warming, tagged austin to copenhagen, citizen energy, climate voice, fossil of the day awards, grist, Public Citizen, tck tck tck, tyson slocum, wonk room on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Its already getting tough to keep tabs on everything happening in Copenhagen, so for now I’ll just share what I’ve been reading. Here’s today’s Copen-digest: Grist, as always, is an invaluable resource (and amusing to boot). Keep an eye on there often-updated series, Grist in Copenhagen: How føcked are we? The Wonk Room is also [...]

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Most Energy Citizen Rallies Organized By Oil Lobbyists

Posted in Energy, tagged american petroleum institute, astroturf, company picnic, Energy Citizens, grist, houston rally, kate sheppard, oil lobbyists on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A new line of intrigue in the Energy Citizen astroturf events: turns out that, on top of being funded by the American Petroleum Institute and stocked with (at the Houston event, exclusively) energy company employees, the majority of them are also being organized by oil-industry lobbyists. Kate Sheppard from Grist reports: Here’s more evidence that [...]

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Coal Hurts Babies

Posted in Coal, tagged 81st legislature, birth defects, carbon caucus, carbon management caucus, China, china daily, Coal, coal plant, environmental pollution, grist, penn state, shanxi on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A week and a half ago I sat in on the first Carbon Management Caucus meeting of the 81st Legislature and listened to a professor from Penn State tell legislators, their staffers, and a few intrepid members of the general public that “we need coal, coal isn’t going anywhere, in China they’re using tons and [...]

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If You Lead, They Will Follow

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Barack Obama, Carbon Dioxide, China, climate change, developing nations, emissions, Global Warming, green new deal, grist, India, japan, leadership, prime minister, stimulus package, taro aso on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Throughout the global warming debate, I have often heard an argument I like to call “the China cop-out.” It goes somewhere along the lines of, “Developing nations like China and India are growing so quickly, adding so many new coal-fired power plants, and emitting so much carbon dioxide that it isn’t worth it for the [...]

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