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Entries Tagged as '2018 Election'

Virginia #Climate Crisis Forum: Featuring Senate Candidates @TimKaine & @CoreyStewartVA

September 14th, 2018 · Comments Off on Virginia #Climate Crisis Forum: Featuring Senate Candidates @TimKaine & @CoreyStewartVA

The science is clear: humanity is driving climate change. The science is clear: this is creating risks for humanity. The appropriate responses are debated and argued — even as there are those who simply deny reality (looking at you, Donald Trump …) and work to obstruct meaningful action to mitigate climate change and reduce risks […]

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Tags: 2018 Election · climate change · politics

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A True Climate Hawk

June 27th, 2018 · Comments Off on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A True Climate Hawk

My political life, other than the unending outrage over the Trump kakistocracy outrages, is dominated by the need to #FlipThe10th — to get rid of #ExtremistComstock and do my part for adding one D to the House.  With that in mind, it is hard with everything in life to be watching with detail races around the […]

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Tags: 2018 Election · climate hawk · Climate Hawks · climate legislation

The Climate of Climate in the 2018 election

January 29th, 2018 · Comments Off on The Climate of Climate in the 2018 election

For many election cycles, those aware of the serious nature of climate change (and the opportunities acting to mitigate it will create) have advocated for greater political discussion of climate change. In the 2008 presidential election, in part due to a dedicated effort to ask questions of candidates in key primaries, ‘climate’ seemed — at […]

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Tags: 2018 Election · climate change · politics

#TX21: Another sign of why @GOP is running scared … (w/serious #climate/#science element)

April 11th, 2017 · Comments Off on #TX21: Another sign of why @GOP is running scared … (w/serious #climate/#science element)

Today, Kansans are voting in an unexpectedly close race to replace now Trump CIA director Mike Pompeo in KS-04, which ‘is’ a R+30 district. [Update: The Republican won by 7% in what should have been a sleeper, blow-away vote … e.g., a massive swing toward Ds that suggests >100 GOP seats could be in play in 2018.] […]

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