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Tea Party, Oil Companies Take Aim at State Climate Laws

Photo via Fulton County Republicans Who would have thought that two years after the definitive election of a president who counted addressing climate change and instituting a forward-looking energy policy among his top priorities, the state of climate politics would be more miserable than ever. The failure to pass clean energy and climate legislation, with the prospects of doing so anytime in the near future looking bleak, would be bad enough. But it only gets worse — emboldened by the death of the Senate bill and riding on a wave of anti-regulatory, anti-government sentiment,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Conversations with Women Cyclists (Video)

Bikes are for Everyone While in some parts of the world (Copenhagen, Amsterdam), cycling is the most normal thing in the world for both sexes, other places have had more problems making women feel like cycling might be for them. Thankfully, this is gradually starting to change in many places, and I’m hoping that a virtuous cycle will take place; if women start seeing lots of women on bikes instead of just a bunch of guys, it’ll increase the chances that they’ll think “hey, maybe I should try it”. Our friends at StreetFilms went out in NYC and talked to many wom… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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