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If Anything Can Unite the Democrats, It's Climate

A recent Gallup poll exploring issue priorities of Democrats and Republicans found that the "sharpest issue-priority disagreements," by far, were regarding climate change. While 72 percent of Democrats deem climate an "extremely or very important issue to their vote...

Good News For The Climate: Obama Wins Big Pledge From India

Winning India's cooperation with cutting greenhouse gas pollution is a critical goal if we are to avert a climate crisis, as it is the fourth-largest emitter in the world. The rapidly developing country has resisted adopting strict pollution reduction targets for fear...

Trump Has No Use For Dog Whistles

The notoriously Machiavellian Republican operative Lee Atwater once famously revealed his party's strategy to use so-called "dog whistles" to communicate racist sentiments without overtly racist language: You start out in 1954 by saying, “N****r, n****r, n****r.” By...

Trump Would Be a Climate Killer

Donald Trump is so consistently inconsistent, the challenge is to remind folks that what he says one minute that may seem appealing is often contradicted in the next minute. When it comes to the climate, we don't have that problem. Trump has made it crystal clear he...

Trump Can't Spin His Greed

Last week, CNN uncovered Donald Trump's 2006 remarks about how he wanted to profit off of a housing bubble: I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy. You know if you’re in a good cash position, which I’m in a good cash position...

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