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Calling all radicals: unite for Kerry-Boxer

Content Keyword RSS — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:07:06 +0000

Cross-posted from Grist . As an activist who has been arrested for civil disobedience, organized national climate mobilizations, protested outside of coal plants and worked for Greenpeace, I am calling on my friends and colleagues to fight for the Kerry-Boxer “Clean Energy Jobs Act” and a strong global treaty in Copenhagen. On Monday Senator Barbara Boxer and Energy Secretary Steven Chu said there is a chance of passing a climate bill in Congress before the international talks in Copenhagen

Why enviros can’t sleep at night

Content Keyword RSS — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:58:47 +0000

Guess what keeps environmentalists up at night? And worries me, too? If President Obama and the Democrats are struggling to find 60 votes in the Senate to pass domestic climate-change legislation, how on earth will they get the 67 votes needed to ratify a global treaty to deal with the problem, even assuming –and this is a big assumption — that the UNFCCC (that’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, for the uninitiated) can get a global deal done this winter in Copenha