In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 6 days ago

Since the first Earth Day 40 years ago -- and despite incredible progress on myriad environmental problems -- America is now faced with a failing...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 6 days ago

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said today that she is putting on hold her effort to block EPA's determination that carbon pollution is a danger to publ...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 6 days ago

Forty years ago this spring, we were a nation divided by war in Vietnam. The Chevrolet Monte Carlo got 11 miles to the gallon. Simon and Garfunkel wer...

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In Climate Progress - Posted 1 week ago

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has decided to hold the fate of her state, nation, and world hostage to drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as ...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 2 weeks ago

Sen. Jay Rockefeller [D, WV] is the latest in a bipartisan series of lawmakers who are trying to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its powe...

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In Climate Progress - Posted 2 weeks ago

Goodbye, HummerThe world might be saved: It looks as if the Hummer is destined for the junkyard. The plan by General Motors to sell the muscular brand...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 2 weeks ago

Blocking the EPA from dealing with climate change if Congress fails to act is now a bipartisan, bicameral effort:NYT reports:Two top House Democrats i...

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In Climate Progress - Posted 2 weeks ago

Opposition continues to grow to the Dirty Air Act Senator Lisa Murkowski's (R-AK) Resolution of Disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 3 weeks ago

A rogues' gallery of science-denying coal and oil companies, industry lobbyists and trade associations, right-wing advocacy groups, and ultra-conserva...

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In Climate Progress - Posted 3 weeks ago

Texas's own state climatologist can find no scientific basis in his state's effort to roll back the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases endanger the p...

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