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Climate Change Legislation Must Stimulate Demand, Be Tough On Pollution

By Natasha Chart
October 2, 2009

Consider these three worrying things: First, there's some risk that putting the wrong type of price signal solely on domestic pollution may transfer both jobs and pollution overseas, while increasing pollution. more »

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Putting A Cap On A Lie About Cap-And-Trade Cost

CONservative Spin:

“Cap-and-trade or, more appropriately, cap-and-tax ... would require energy producers and businesses to pay to emit carbon emissions in the hope of reducing greenhouse gases. According to an analysis by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the average American household could expect its yearly energy bill to increase by $3,128 per year. Using an analysis by Peter Orszag, President Obama's budget director, that number would be closer to $4,000.”
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PROgressive Response:

By Isaiah J. Poole
April 10th, 2009
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The right keeps peddling this line even though the author of the MIT study, John Reilly, told the St. Petersburg Times' PolitiFact.com that the way they are using the figures in the report is "wrong in so many ways it's hard to begin."

What the report actually says is that the cost per household of a climate bill that would cap carbon emissions and tax polluters for the ability to exceed that cap would be $79 in 2015, Reilly says.

Conservatives say nothing about the potential benefits of such a bill, including greater incentives to conserve energy and competition from other energy sources that would help lower prices for everyone. And some percentage of the revenue from a climate bill could be used to mitigate its impact on lower-income families, in the form of direct subsidies and in helping them lower their energy bill. The details that would actually determine the costs and benefits, such as an energy tax credit to families proposed by the Obama administration, have yet to be hammered out—yet another reason to dismiss conservative claims about what they are mislabeling a "light switch tax."

These right-wing blasts are really arguments to keep the coal, oil and gas industries from having to pay the costs of polluting our environment, and to keep the nation from embracing the new energy future.

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Cynthia Dizike. "Bachmann statement on cap-and-trade disputed." Minnesota Post. April 9, 2009.

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2007 Was Second Warmest Year on Record

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
September 29, 2008

2007 was Earth's second warmest year on record, tied with 1998. The eight warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years have all occurred since 1990.

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NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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Chamber of Commerce continues its clean-air SCARE campaign

By Frank O'Donnell
September 22, 2008

As you may be aware, Senator Boxer’s Committee on Environment and Public Works plans a hearing tomorrow on the topic of “regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.”

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Stonewall Steve's War on the Planet

By Frank O'Donnell
July 14, 2008

It's been an item of debate in D.C. circles for some time: who was really the worst head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency?

Was it Anne Gorsuch Burford, who resigned from the EPA in disgrace after being cited for contempt of Congress?
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Climate Kidnappers

By Frank O'Donnell
June 3, 2008

In case there was any doubt about it, the White House has officially said President Bush would veto the so-called Lieberman-Warner climate bill, which the Senate took up yesterday. more »

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Rockefeller Family Joins the Uprising

By David Sirota
May 1, 2008

In my upcoming book, The Uprising, I report a whole chapter on the increasingly brilliant use of shareholder resolutions as an instrument of powerful political populism. more »

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No lung left behind

By Frank O'Donnell
May 1, 2008

What we can learn from the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” report

It has become part of the rites of Spring, along with television’s May “sweeps,” the Kentucky Derby, and Cinco de Mayo. more »

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Human warming hobbles ancient climate cycle

From reuters.com
April 27th, 2008

reuters.com — Before humans began burning fossil fuels, there was an eons-long balance between carbon dioxide emissions and Earth's ability to absorb them, but now the planet can't keep up, scientists said on Sunday.

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Global warming neglected by media

Submitted by Anita Chariw2 (not verified)
April 10, 2008

Of the 3,201 questions the major TV networks directly asked the presidential candidates in 2007, only eight were about global warming.

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"Al Gore is back with global warming slide show 2.0" Los Angeles Times, 9 April 2008. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/04/al-gore-is-back.html
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