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• Cracking the Whip

  Counting Senate votes on climate and energy 1

  Posted 1 day, 1 hour ago

  Here's a breakdown of senators who are likely to support and oppose a climate bill, and the many more who haven't made their positions clear. Read More

• Dept. of Misinformation

  No, Jeff, there’s not a debate about the science of climate change 3

  Posted 1 day, 2 hours ago

  Following on our in-depth series, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, Grist is launching an occasional feature that tracks the latest global warming denialisms and skeptics garbage, making sure to point readers to the real story. Read More

• It Could Be Verse

  Climate-news poem: Breath-catching edition 0

  Posted 1 day, 4 hours ago By Katharine Wroth

  After last week's Congressional frenzy, we take a moment to reflect on the climate vote and its fallout. Next week: no ACES, we promise! Read More

• Da we can

  U.S.-Russia climate and energy efficiency cooperation: A neglected challenge 1

  Posted 1 day, 4 hours ago By Andrew Light

  The summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow on July 6-8 comes in the middle of a packed international schedule of bilateral and multilateral meetings for the United States. on climate change. In the run up to the critical U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen at the end of this year, when the extension or successor to the existing Kyoto Protocol must be agreed upon, it is crucial that the United States and Russia—both major emitters of greenhouse… Read More

• A walk through the week's climate news

  The Climate Post: Has the political climate changed? 5

  Posted 1 day, 4 hours ago By Eric Roston

  First things first: The U.S. House of Representatives last week narrowly voted to overhaul the nation's energy economy by limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions, boosting efficiency, and developing renewable electricity sources. The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act would limit, or "cap," annual pollution and allow industry to buy and sell, or "trade," credits in a new and tightly regulated commodity market. The vote, 219-212, sends an equivocal message to the Senate, where advocates… Read More

• Jolly green giant

  Must-read: urban farmer Will Allen in the NYT Magazine 2

  Posted 1 day, 4 hours ago By Tom Philpott

  Anyone who wants to understand the paradoxes and promise of urban agriculture must read the luminous profile of Growing Power's Will Allen by Elizabeth Royte, online now and forthcoming in Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Read More

• Lunch-hour follies

  AS GOP politicians take the school-lunch debate to new lows, perk up with berry ice cream 1

  Posted 1 day, 8 hours ago By Kurt Michael Friese

  School lunches are notoriously dismal--warmed over processed dreck. How depressing that state-level GOP politicians are rallying round the lunch-room status quo. Kurt Michael Friese cheers up with homemade berry ice cream. Read More

• China blasts U.S. climate bill enabling penalties on trade partners 2

  Posted 1 day, 8 hours ago By Agence France-Presse

  China said Thursday it was "firmly" opposed to provisions in a new U.S. clean energy bill that will make it easier to impose trade penalties on nations that reject limits to globe-warming pollution. Read More

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