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gristmill.grist.org - 2/13/2009
A green-tinged stimulus bill | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
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The $789 billion economic-recovery bill looks good in terms of green spending, according to preliminary analysis from the Center for American Progress. The House and Senate reached agreement on the bill on Wednesday and are expected to approve it by the end of the week; President Obama hopes to ...
gristmill.grist.org - 2/16/2009
George Will is an idiot | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
— gristmill.grist.org — George Will is supposedly one of the reality-based conservatives, who eschews the willful know-nothingism of some of... his ideological co-travelers. Yet today, as he has many times before, he uses his perch on the Washington Post editorial page to lie ... (more) George Will is an idiot | Gristmill: The environmental ...

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The Stimulus Goes Green
motherjones.com - 2/17/2009
The Stimulus Goes Green
— motherjones.com — The $789 billion recovery package wasn't all enviros hoped for. In some cases, it was more.... (more) The Stimulus Goes Green

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gristmill.grist.org - 2/10/2009
Fred Barnes' source for climate science | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
— gristmill.grist.org — I'm seeing a lot of people passing around a link to this story on TPM , which... mocks Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes for saying that the case for man-made warming is "falling apart" but refusing to divulge any of his sources for that seemingly ... (more) Fred Barnes' source for climate science | Gristmill: The ...

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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:  "Clean Coal," Nuclear Spending Removed From Stimulus

Daily Kos:  Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats

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"Clean Coal," Nuclear Spending Removed From Stimulus
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Somebody in the capital must have seen those "Reality" ads where the kindly man in the construction helmet offers a tour of a clean coal facility (see below), only to take the viewer on a tour of nothing. When the bill left the Senate, it contained $4.6 billion for coal technology, but when the Senate and House unveiled their new version of the stimulus, that promise had disappeared: ...

Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
Daily Kos — ... Kate Sheppard at Grist provides a more thorough list of the green-tinged stimulus items, as does Joseph Romm of Climate Progress ...

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