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More Conservative Thinkers Want Tax Carbon. Will Politicians, Activists Follow?
2015-05-15 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Were in one of those moments again. One of those moments where people (yes, mostly liberals) get together and hope really hard that the climate issue is becoming less divisive, that theres going to be a breakthrough on the Republican side, and that well finally achieve consensus to take action. You can see it in the recent celebrations of former South Carolina GOP congressman and now climate crusader Bob Inglis, who just won the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for trying to convince...
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Conservative push for solar is backed by usual green advocates
2015-05-15 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Debbie Dooley, a Tea Party firebrand from Woodstock Georgia, makes the case for solar power, she doesn't rely on the usual environmental talking points. She speaks of property rights, national security and free market competition. Former Republican Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr. casts his support for solar energy as a conservative stance against monopoly power utilities that "want to limit energy choice." Dooley and Goldwater, along with the right-leaning pro-solar groups they founded,...
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How to teach climate change to a conservative community
2015-05-14 10:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The National Center for Science Education is a non-profit organization with some 5,000 members that provides information and resources for schools, parents, and concerned citizens working to keep evolution and climate science in public school science education. The center originally devoted its energies to fighting efforts by some schools to teach creationism alongside evolution, but in 2012 started an initiative to defend and support the teaching of climate change to fight climate change denial...
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Conservative election victory: what next for UK energy?
2015-05-12 01:00:00| Power Technology
After a surprisingly decisive general election victory on 7 May, Conservative leader David Cameron will remain the head of the UK government, this time without the influence of Liberal Democrats, the partys former coalition partners. But what does t
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A 'believer' takes over conservative carbon tax effort
2015-04-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The first time Catrina Rorke worked on a carbon tax, it got her boss fired. Now, she has another shot. The millennial 30-year-old, with bold-rimmed glasses and a composite political identity, is the first director of energy policy for the R Street Institute, a conservative think tank formed almost three years ago when its founder, Eli Lehrer, broke away from the Heartland Institute over its contravening positions on climate change. Rorke will shoulder R Street's growing energy program at a...
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