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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 …

Koch Industries Finances Climate Denier Factions

by Keith SchneiderMarch 31, 2010March 31, 20100

The work to achieve a climate and energy bill in the United States is moving with considerably slower momentum this spring than it did at the same time last year. A number of factors contribute, not the least of which is the time and focus that the White House and Democrats in Congress devoted to enacting a national health care bill, which passed earlier this month.Â Another factor is the flagging U.S. economy and the …

Let Wind Energy Blow? Not In These Places

by Keith SchneiderMarch 24, 2010September 9, 20105

Next month Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is scheduled to rule on a proposal to build one of the most contentious clean energy projects in the country. It is a 420-megawatt offshore wind farm in Massachusetts called Cape Wind. Audra Parker, the young leader of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, has emerged as a local public interest celebrity as a result of her work to prevent developers from constructing 130 turbines five miles out in …