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Principle Trumps Pragmatism: Grassroots Greens Campaign Against Clean Energy, American Power Act

by Keith SchneiderMay 20, 2010September 9, 20101

As the expanse of the Gulf slick widened this week and climate advocates reckoned with an American public focused on more urgent risks closer to their front doors, 15 big activist organizations and a coalition of 200 grassroots advocacy groups from across the country, many of them green, lashed the American Power Act. Greenpeace last Thursday called the measure “more of a ‘dirty energy bailout’ bill than anything else.” In a statement issued a day …

As Gulf Slick Spreads Environmental Movement Takes Unexpected Heat

by Keith SchneiderMay 4, 2010September 9, 2010

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate economist,Â Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, and friend of most things green wrote a piece over the weekend that should give environmentalists heartache. In a column about the big Gulf oil spill, Krugman described how the environmental movement has been steadily losing political momentum because it’s been so successful in scrubbing the skies and clearing the waters of the visible hazards of pollution. He also lays …