"Drill Baby" Attacks Climate Bill

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American politics is a wonder. Let’s say you’re unhappy with the climate bill narrowly passed by the House of Representatives a while back. You think you might be able to influence the Senate and an eventual conference committee if you could get an opinion piece published in the Washington Post. Who would be your best…

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U.S. Green Reputation Slammed, Or Not

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I just received a most curious press release from GfK Public Affairs and Media. GfK, one of the largest marketing research companies in the world according to its website, conducted a poll to determine the ranking of various countries as "brands." The country with the best overall reputation is Germany. The U.S. finishes seventh. As…

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Do They Love That Dirty Water?

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You’d think Colorado’s two Democratic U.S. senators, Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, would be in the forefront to protect one of Colorado’s most valuable natural resources: our water. Unfortunately, the jury is still out on whether they will be. As has been amply detailed by Earthjustice and in a recent op-ed in the Denver Post by Trout Unlimited’s…

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