The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Senator Who Owns Stock in Coal Utilities is Fighting EPA Carbon Rules
Millionaire senator David Vitter just released an report designed to skewer the EPA, but he forgot to mention that he stands to lose economically if the proposed Obama's carbon rules are implemented.
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LA Becomes Biggest American City To Put Moratorium on Fracking
City Council members unanimously voted to ban the practice within city limits.
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Deadly Quebec Oil Train Disaster and Athabasca River Spill
North America's energy ambitions continue to run roughshod over the continent.
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Koch Brothers, ALEC Attack Maine Renewable Energy Standards
Maine’s clean energy legislation has spurred more than $2 billion in local investment and created at least 2,500 jobs, but that isn’t stopping some state lawmakers from trying to weaken it.
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Exposed: Frackademics at USC Release "Powering California" Study
Frackademia—shorthand for bogus science, economics and research results paid for by the oil and gas industry—has struck again in California, this time touting the future of Monterey's shale deposits.
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Shale Gas Bubble Looms, Aided by Wall Street
Two reports published this week conclude that the current fracking boom could lead to a "bubble burst" akin to the housing bubble burst of 2008.
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"Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" to Require Teaching Climate Change Denial in Schools
The American Legislative Exchange Council has planted its "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act," mandating a "balanced" teaching of climate science in K-12 classrooms, in the Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona state legislatures in 2013.
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Revealed: The EPA Censored Evidence Linking Methane Contamination to Fracking
An investigation published last week revealed that the Obama Administration's EPA censored a scientific report explicitly linking methane migration to hydraulic fracturing.
