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At this time, the Climate Reality program is on a 24-hour long world-wide tour. Organized by (Vice) President Gore, this program moves time-zone by time-zone around the world, laying out the truth of climate science, things that are occurring to help turn the tide on Global Warming’s rising seas, realities of the time zone [...]

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This guest post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture.  Dave Johnson is a Fellow with CAF.
Well here’s a surprise: conservatives and oil interests are pushing deceptive and destructive stories about President Obama and clean energy.  Imagine that! Their intent (as always) is to turn people [...]

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As the sun bursts through weeks of massive rain, the Washington, DC, area is entering into several hot solar weeks.

The Washington Redskins and NRG Energy are holding a press conference 15 September to inaugurate Fedex Field’s solar panel installation.
Next week, the bi-annual Solar Decathlon opens at West Potomac Park (running from 23 September through 2 [...]

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As we get prepared to be underwhelmed with inadequate proposals for job creation that, mainly, seem taken out of old Republican playbooks (which is why, of course, today’s Republicans will reject them out-of-hand), my in-box is increasingly filled with people wondering whether they are going to take the path of MVANE (My Vote And Nothing [...]

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We are less than two days out from President Barack Obama’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress and to the nation to outline proposals to help put Americans back to work. This speech could be a strident call for all-out measures to reinvigorate American employment, a more limited set of programs constructed and [...]

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This morning, as roughly 160 dedicated and knowledgeable Americans put their freedom at risk to call attention to the horrific risks created by Tar Sands exploitation, President Obama announced a kowtowing to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and disinformation about the benefits created through sensible regulation with a postponement of Ozone regulations.
Sadly, rather than [...]

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This guest post comes courtesy of Barath.

We’re at the end of economic growth as we know it.  Not everyone has realized this yet, but it has arrived nevertheless [see discussions here and here].
As gas prices remain high and climate chaos becomes ever more apparent, people and institutions are rightly argue ever more [...]

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This guest post comes from Brendan DeMelle
With over 700 people arrested so far in the Keystone XL tar sands action taking place at the Obama White House, and widespread distrust and criticism of the State Department’s final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), this is a critical moment in the fight against a disastrous proposal to build a [...]

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This look at the job claims related to the Keystone XL pipeline is a guest post from the thoughtful Patriot News Daily Clearinghouse.

One big spin to promote the TransCanada XL tar sands pipeline is that it would create lots of jobs. So, there are headlines like this:
Approving Keystone XL Pipeline Would Create Jobs and Lower [...]

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