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The Atmosphere Doesn't Care About Our Politics. How Do We Get to Deep Decarbonization? (Nov. 23, 2016)

The United States last week released its strategy for deep decarbonization by mid-century. While this strategy seems rather unrealistic in light of the election of climate-denying Donald Trump and the domination of Congress by climate-denying Republicans, atmospheric chemistry does not particularly care about our politics or our elections.

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RGGI States Can Achieve More Reductions -- Even Beyond Tightening the Cap. And, Now More Than Ever, We Need Them To. (Nov. 10, 2016)

In light of the shocking election of Donald Trump, a climate denier, as the next U.S. president, coupled with climate-denying GOP control of Congress, the focus of climate progress in the United States will turn even more to the states.

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Clinton, Climate Action, & Carbon Revenues (Oct. 31, 2016)

The WikiLeaks releases of emails allegedly hacked from John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, show that the campaign apparently explored the potential for a carbon tax and other climate policies in 2015.

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In the Fight Against Climate Change, Time is of the Essence. Let's Use Carbon Price Revenues to Go Further, Faster. (July 28, 2016)

Climate science is painting a pretty dire picture these days.

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