Blogs: New Energy


Isaiah J. Poole's picture

How The Climate Change Bill Can Help Save 4 Million Jobs

Taken out of context, this argument sounds almost like a right-wing or corporatist knock against the climate change bill that's pending in the Senate: The bill that was introduced this week by Sens. more »

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Bill Scher's picture

Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill: A Second Chance For Progressives

The new Boxer-Kerry Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act gives progressives a second chance to influence climate legislation, if we learn the right lessons from both the legislative process for the House climate bill and the ongoing health care debate. more »

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Mike Elk's picture

Key Senators, Krugman Call For Tariffs On High-Carbon-Footprint Imports

Speaking Tuesday on a Campaign for America's Future conference call, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said that the climate change legislation will not get 50 Senate votes if it does not place a tariff on imports that have unacceptably high carbon footprints. more »

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Bill Scher's picture

Conservatives Ditch CBO Data When Convenient To Attack Climate Bill

Conservatives who loved citing the Congressional Budget Office when it was being hard on health care legislation keep on ignoring it when it comes to climate legislation. more »

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Mike Elk's picture

Labor Movement Gets Tough and Threatens to Cut Off Cowardly Democrats

For a long time, Corporate Democrats have taken advantage of organized labor to mobilize voters for them and fund their campaigns. However when big votes come up against powerful corporate interested, these Democrats continually abandon organized labor on key issues like the public option, Employee Free Choice Act, trade agreements, and other issues important for working people. more »

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Mike Elk's picture

Stop The Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia

West Virginia shows us how we could easily win over this key segment of society, working class whites, with a New Deal-style industrial policy. more »

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Bill Scher's picture

Neutralizing Big Oil's Climate Bill Attack, With Investment in Manufacturing

The oil lobby's latest Astroturf concoction is "Energy Citizens." Its website practically looks like it's a group pushing clean green jobs, with it's green-tinted USA map and call to "support American jobs and affordable energy." Its attempt as a grassroots rally was more »

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Isaiah J. Poole's picture

Harry Alford's Condescension

The right-wing blogosphere is abuzz over the supposed smackdown between Sen. Barbara Boxer and Harry C. Alford, who portrays himself as an "African American and a veteran" who is insulted at Boxer's alleged racism and calls her on it. more »

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Bill Scher's picture

Thank You Sarah Palin

Thank you Sarah Palin, for crystallizing the choice facing us on climate and energy. more »

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Eric Lotke's picture

Hobbled, We're Losing The Global Energy Race

While American ideologues talk free market purity, countries with intelligent, carefully considered industrial policies are pulling ahead of us. Energy is the key.

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