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		<title>A new forum at Forbes</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/03/25/a-new-forum-at-forbes/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/03/25/a-new-forum-at-forbes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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As I hinted in a semi-final post at True/Slant, this forum has found a new home, under a new name and with a new mission, at Forbes.
The assignment has changed, appropriate to the developing realities of the politics and economics of carbon. I&#8217;ll be pursuing green technology, its pioneers and their projects.
Please join me at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So long to the life we used to live</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/31/trueslant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/?p=4274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

My old man taught me to say &#8220;so long&#8221; whenever we parted because he contended &#8220;goodbye&#8221; should be reserved for permanent occasions, like the one Emily Dickinson refers to here:

Good-by to the life I used to live,
And the world I used to know;
And kiss the hills for me, just once;
Now I am ready to go!

Goodbye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game over: Senate abandons climate bill</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/23/game-over-senate-abandons-climate-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/23/game-over-senate-abandons-climate-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/?p=4262</guid>
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The Senate&#8217;s abandonment of climate legislation, confirmed last night, is not a victory of Republicans over Democrats, business over government, skeptics over believers. It&#8217;s a failure of capitalism, above all, and a failure of capitalism&#8217;s apprentice: democracy.
In facing global warming, human beings have faced the unprecedented necessity&#8211;and the unprecedented possibility&#8211;of changing our collective behavior through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Gulf seafood is safe, but should we eat it?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/19/should-we-eat-gulf-seafood/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/19/should-we-eat-gulf-seafood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No sooner had oil stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico&#8211;if only temporarily&#8211;than a campaign was underway to convince Americans to buy Gulf seafood, now that everything is &#8220;back to normal.&#8221;
Engineered by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, the campaign penetrated news media nationwide this weekend, most of which dutifully reported that Gulf seafood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will outrage dissipate without live oil-spill video?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/16/will-outrage-dissipate-without-live-oil-spill-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than three months, up to 15 cameras have fed Americans live video of BP&#8217;s oil-spill disaster from nearly a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico. The metaphor was not hard to catch&#8211;instead of fueling planes, trains, and automobiles, the gushing crude was fueling outrage.
Now that the spill has been contained by a cap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economist: An unhappy worker is a productive worker</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/13/workplace-mental-health/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/13/workplace-mental-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does The Economist have not only anonymous scribes, but anonymous bloggers? Perhaps so they can be refreshingly honest.
There&#8217;s no taint of political correctness, no whiff of sympathy, in the latest offering in the paper magazine by their &#8220;Schumpeter blogger&#8221; (named for Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter), who turns out upon investigation to be none other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyd&#8217;s warns of economic energy crisis</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/12/lloyds-360-peak-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/12/lloyds-360-peak-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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Don&#8217;t believe in global warming? There&#8217;s a backup disaster.
Even without the threat of climate change, economic disaster looms for businesses that fail to switch from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources, the insurance giant Lloyd&#8217;s of London warns.
&#8220;Companies which are able to plan for and take advantage of this new energy reality will increase both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can this language change American politics?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/10/george-lakoff-progressive-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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Berkeley linguist to Democrats: talk to America like it&#8217;s a 5-year-old.
That&#8217;s not what George Lakoff says, exactly, but it&#8217;s what he does in a sample editorial he wrote to teach progressives how to convey their message more effectively to the American public.
In a sample editorial on Arizona&#8217;s immigration law&#8211;reprinted in full below&#8211;he doesn&#8217;t want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air pollution alerts spike as EPA announces new regulations</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/06/meanwhile-the-air-is-also-polluted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce new rules today regulating power-plant pollution that crosses state lines.
Gina McCarthy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for air and radiation, is holding a press conference at 12:30 to announce a &#8220;significant Clean Air Act proposal to protect public health and the environment.&#8221;
The White House Office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Chicago&#8217;s body count in the &#8216;Killing Season&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/05/keeping-chicagos-body-count-in-the-killing-season/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/05/keeping-chicagos-body-count-in-the-killing-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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Chicagoans know they can count on a few things when the weather turns fair in summer: hundreds of thousands will flock to the Lakefront, live bands will play at lunchtime on State Street corners, farmers will haul fresh produce into town for the morning markets, fireworks will light the evening skies at least twice a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independence Day in the year of the corporate citizen</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/04/independence-day-in-the-year-of-the-corporate-citizen/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/04/independence-day-in-the-year-of-the-corporate-citizen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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The U.S. Supreme Court has been busy in its laboratory in 2010, creating a new class of citizen with dynamic new powers. At first, it seemed that citizen might be the corporation, but recently we&#8217;ve learned more about what the court has in mind.
When the justices struck down the ban on corporate funding for political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How a YouTube video stopped BP from torching turtles</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/03/bp-burning-turtles-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/07/03/bp-burning-turtles-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appended with correction below.
When BP conducts a controlled burn in the Gulf of Mexico, two shrimp boats drag a boom across the water&#8217;s surface, collecting floating oil until it&#8217;s thick enough to set afire. The boom also captures everything else on the surface, including oiled sea turtles, and until yesterday, BP was blithely setting them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unpublished G-20 Report: Fossil fuel subsidies cost the world $557 billion</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/27/unpublished-g-20-report-fossil-fuel-subsidies-cost-the-world-557-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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World governments undermine themselves and their nations&#8217; infrastructure and cost the global economy half a trillion dollars each year by subsizing the oil and coal industries, according to a scathing report&#8211;still unpublished&#8211;that ministers from the G-20 nations received in Toronto this weekend.
The White House released a brief but colorful summary of the report this afternoon:
Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Congressman Joe Barton apologizes to BP for &#8217;shakedown&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/17/texas-congressman-joe-barton-apologizes-to-bp/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/17/texas-congressman-joe-barton-apologizes-to-bp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf Coast]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Barton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Hayward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States House of Representatives]]></category>
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Updated with Barton&#8217;s retraction of apology to BP and a new apology.
Updated with statement from White House calling Barton&#8217;s comments &#8220;shameful.&#8221; 
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) apologized to BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward at this morning&#8217;s hearing of the House subcommittee investigating BP&#8217;s oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Barton focused on a $20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Cuba so quiet about BP oil spill?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/15/bp-oil-spill-cuba/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/15/bp-oil-spill-cuba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communist Party of Cuba]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Florida International University Cuban Research Center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Piñon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loop Current]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Smith (diplomat)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

NOAA&#8217;s projected trajectory for the BP Oil Spill shows the first tongue of oil poking south on Wednesday, aiming toward Cuba, the Straits of Florida and the Gulf Loop Current.
If the plume continues in that direction, oil that has been roiling in Gulf Waters could reach the Gulf Stream and begin to streak toward the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail sales are down because Americans are crazy</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/13/retail-sales-consumer-confidence/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/13/retail-sales-consumer-confidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Wyss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retailing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Faced with seemingly contradictory financial data&#8211;retail sales dropped in May but consumer confidence rose&#8211;the stock market plunged and then soared Friday, ending slightly higher on light trading.
This erratic behavior tested the financial press, which tasks itself with finding psychological explanations for financial data. Here is Yian Q. Mui, for example, writing in yesterday&#8217;s Washington Post:
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coast Guard requires BP to double collection at oil spill site</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/11/bp-oil-spill-leak-collection/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/11/bp-oil-spill-leak-collection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thad Allen]]></category>
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The U.S. Coast Guard is requiring BP to develop a plan to collect 40,000 to 50,000 barrels of oil per day at the site of the Deepwater Horizon well site, Admiral Thad Allen told reporters moments ago.
Two facilities currently at the surface, the Discoverer Enterprise drilling ship (pictured) and the Q4000 floating platform, can handle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murkowski vote reveals dirty Democrats</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/10/murkowski-resolution-epa-six-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/10/murkowski-resolution-epa-six-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byron Dorgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Air Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Bayh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenhouse gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Rockefeller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Murkowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Pryor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Landrieu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Environmental Protection Agency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
UPDATED with tally of Gulf Coast senators.
If you want to know why the United States has failed to act on climate change&#8211;a political failure that could precipiate a larger political failure for the world&#8211;here&#8217;s one answer: Evan Bayh of Indiana, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pryor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coast Guard says BP has not been paying oil spill claims</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/09/thad-allen-bp-claims-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/09/thad-allen-bp-claims-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blowout Preventer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lmrp cap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thad Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Hayward]]></category>
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Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen released a letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward this morning demanding BP release detailed information on claims people have submitted for damages and lost income because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The letter comes in advance of a meeting between Coast Guard and BP officials today to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Lugar&#8217;s climate plan: more oil drilling and &#8216;amnesty&#8217; for coal plants</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/08/lugar-climate-bill-oil-drilling-coal/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/08/lugar-climate-bill-oil-drilling-coal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[frank o'donnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore oil drilling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Richard Lugar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It comes in pretty green wrapping. Sen. Richard Lugar&#8217;s &#8220;Practical Energy and Climate Plan&#8221; calls for increased energy efficiency in buildings and industry, increased vehicle efficiency, more choices in automotive fuels and more diverse domestic energy sources, all in the name of reduced dependence on foreign oil. The wrapper is pretty enough to sway The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP tries to rename oil spill</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/06/bp-oil-spill-advertising-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/06/bp-oil-spill-advertising-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

In its $50 million advertising campaign, BP is trying to make sure the disaster currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico does not go down in history as the &#8220;BP Oil Spill.&#8221;
In BP&#8217;s preferred parlance, the spill is called the &#8220;Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill&#8221; or the &#8220;Deepwater Horizon Incident.&#8221; However, people are googling &#8220;BP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP diverts 6,000 barrels from oil spill to ship in first day</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/05/bp-diverts-6000-barrels-to-ship/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/05/bp-diverts-6000-barrels-to-ship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
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The containment cap placed on the leaking wellhead of the Deepwater Horizon succeeded in diverting 6,000 barrels of oil to a ship in the first 24 hours&#8211;that&#8217;s a quarter to a half of the oil estimated to be flowing from the well, Coast Guard Commander Thad Allen announced moments ago in a teleconference with reporters.
That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP lowers cap onto well; oil continues to gush through valves</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/04/oil-spill-lmrp-cap/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/04/oil-spill-lmrp-cap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loop Current]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Center for Atmospheric Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED with statement from Deepwater Horizon Response, just posted on Facebook: &#8220;The LMRP Cap is in place and nitrogen pressure head is slowly being reduced in the riser. Throughout the day, the vents in the cap will be closed as production begins on the surface. The goal is to ensure methane hydrates do not form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five ways to boycott BP without helping Exxon</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/03/five-ways-to-boycott-bp-without-helping-exxon/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/06/03/five-ways-to-boycott-bp-without-helping-exxon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boycott bp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exxon]]></category>
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Every morning I wait for the bus in front of a BP station, watching people drive up and fill their tanks.
Are they not outraged, do they not care, did they not notice the logo?
But is it better if they drive further to fill up at Exxon, which survived the last major oil boycott in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If America had a Left, it would be falling apart right now</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/30/american-left/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/30/american-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 03:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Columnist David Sirota recently &#8220;laid bare the myth of the Left&#8221; by dusting off the old insight that there is no Left. His column has been passed around the lefty press like a flask at an AA meeting&#8211;as alluring as it is destructive.
Sirota begins by trying to distinguish Left from Right:
&#8220;I&#8217;m always amused by popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carol Browner on BP spill: &#8216;We are prepared for the worst&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/30/carol-browner-bp-deepwater-horizon-spill/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/30/carol-browner-bp-deepwater-horizon-spill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 20:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Browner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil spill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Meet the Press this morning, Carol Browner discussed the scenario we reported here early this morning, that BP and U.S. officials are preparing for the Deepwater Horizon well to continue leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico through the summer. The White House climate change and energy adviser, Browner is interviewed by David Gregory:
MR. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Kill fails: BP settles in for a summer-long leak</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/30/bp-top-kill-fails-lmrp-cap/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/30/bp-top-kill-fails-lmrp-cap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 06:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blowout Preventer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ocean Futures Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Unlike the top-kill procedure that BP abandoned last night, the oil company&#8217;s next approach is not expected to halt the oil leak at the sea floor.
Instead, BP and U.S. officials are preparing to minimize damage from a reduced but persistent leak that could continue for most of the summer, they said in a press conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA releases time-lapse video of Gulf oil spill</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/28/nasa-gulf-oil-spill-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aqua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA released a time-lapse video yesterday that shows the widening oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. The video is made from selected images taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA&#8217;s Terra and Aqua satellites, which pass over the equator each morning and afternoon, respectively, recording the surface of the planet.
The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Genius&#8217; panel: American journalism will survive&#8230; somehow</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/27/liveblogging-fallows-perlstein-geoghegan-on-media-and-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/27/liveblogging-fallows-perlstein-geoghegan-on-media-and-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of the Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Author]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Fallows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perlstein]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SUMMARY: Some in the audience were not convinced&#8211;that American journalism will survive economic upheaval, that it will provide unprecedented opportunities for young people and minorities, that it can even help to save American politics by making sure we eat our spinach and by opening our eyes to the world.
Last night  the University of Chicago hosted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf spill now pretext for climate bill obstruction</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/25/lindsey-graham-oil-drilling/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/25/lindsey-graham-oil-drilling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fossil fuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenhouse gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil well]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

In the worsening midst of the worst oil disaster in U.S. history, Sen. Lindsey Graham said last night that the climate bill he helped author does not allow enough new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and that&#8217;s why he won&#8217;t support it.
The South Carolina Republican told Reuters last night that the bill&#8217;s other two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Oil Disaster of 2010: Where progressives behave like birthers</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/23/gulf-oil-disaster-of-2010-where-progressives-became-birthers/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/23/gulf-oil-disaster-of-2010-where-progressives-became-birthers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 16:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1990 Oil Pollution Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Administration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 

This morning, the poet Mark Doty declared on his Facebook page that he no longer supports Barack Obama. The final straw? BP&#8217;s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico:
It&#8217;s clear that power in Louisiana rests not with any government, but with BP, while the response of the Obama administration is lame and late. Sound familiar? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whales prefer peace. How human is that?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/23/whales-dolphins-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/23/whales-dolphins-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 14:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cetacea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dolphin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hal Whitehead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sperm Whale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

There&#8217;s mounting evidence that whales and dolphins, among the few mammals who can recognize themselves in the mirror, possess a sense of self similar to our own.
This has spurred scientists and philosophers to urge additional protections for these species&#8211;but with an argument that makes me wonder about the quality of human self awareness.
Sperm whales are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migratory birds need city forests</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/22/urban-forests-migratory-birds/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/22/urban-forests-migratory-birds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 05:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bird migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landscape Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural resource]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornithology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swainson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban sprawl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Chicago&#8217;s city motto&#8211;urbs in horto&#8211;means &#8220;city in a garden,&#8221; but there&#8217;s much more city than garden these days, with urban detritus and suburban sprawl ranging mile upon mile out to the cornfields.
If migratory birds are to survive, a new study suggests, we need more horti in the urbe.
Specifically, we need patches of forest within our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Property owners should pay for public transit</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/20/property-owners-should-pay-for-public-transit/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/20/property-owners-should-pay-for-public-transit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Transit Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland Streetcar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transportation and Logistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Public transit makes property owners and developers rich, according to urban planner Christopher B. Leinberger, so property owners and developers should finance it.
With the suburbs in retreat, and with the cost of car ownership now consuming a quarter of Americans&#8217; income, according to Leinberger, people want to live where they can walk, take a bus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP approves Kevin Costner&#8217;s idea for oil cleanup</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/19/kevin-costner-gulf-oil-spill/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/19/kevin-costner-gulf-oil-spill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exxon Valdez oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Houghtaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Costner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil spill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Waterworld]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe &#8220;Waterworld&#8221; wasn&#8217;t a complete waste. While Costner was making that watery flop he began paying scientists to develop an idea for cleaning up oil spills &#8212; a large-scale centrifuge that can separate oil from sea water, saving the oil in tanks while returning the clean seawater to the sea.
BP approved Costner&#8217;s &#8220;Ocean Therapy&#8221; centrifuge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why progress is made in China</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/19/us-china-renewable-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/19/us-china-renewable-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 13:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A123Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toyota Prius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest edition of the Harper&#8217;s Index will tell you the percentage of  all U.S. stimulus funds for renewable energy that have gone to foreign companies since last September: 79.
But it won&#8217;t tell you why.
That you must wonder. But before you conclude President Obama is a Marxist implant sent by Hu Jintao to subjugate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA-hating Tea Partier wins in Kentucky</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/18/rand-paul-kentucky-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/05/18/rand-paul-kentucky-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 01:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa P. Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rand Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trey Grayson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Rand Paul isn&#8217;t just a Tea Party favorite, he&#8217;s a likely senator from a coal state who hasn&#8217;t hesitated to abuse the Environmental Protection Agency in order to turn voters&#8217; fear to his political advantage.
He&#8217;s now the Republican nominee for the open Senate seat in Kentucky, the state that has already given us Mitch McConnell.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If capitalism doesn&#8217;t end climate change, climate change will end capitalism</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/29/capitalism-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/29/capitalism-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[De-Growth Vancouver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flocks of environmentalists and economists will alight in Vancouver this evening for a weekend of striving toward a more sensible capitalism.
The De-Growth conference hopes to achieve a &#8220;viable economic, social and ecological system&#8221; that&#8217;s kinder to both workers and to the earth, but these are no Molotov-hurling Bolsheviks. They&#8217;re just looking for sustainable capitalism.
That means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lindsey Graham withdraws support for climate bill, take three</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/25/lindsey-graham-climate-energy-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/25/lindsey-graham-climate-energy-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States Senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

With startling consistency, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) withdrew his support for the climate bill that will bear his name for a third time this weekend, and then reportedly, for a third time, reconsidered.
In mid-December Graham announced he would join Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman in crafting a tri-partisan energy bill that would begin to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis Lapham: Conquerors, tap that booty</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/22/lewis-lapham-conquerors-tap-that-bootie/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/22/lewis-lapham-conquerors-tap-that-bootie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genghis Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lewis H. Lapham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

It&#8217;s Earth Day, and I should join the green media in writing about the big climate bill that&#8217;s coming down the pipe. But I find myself interminably distracted by Lewis Lapham&#8217;s latest.
Lapham links the New Puritanism to the commodification of sex, and bravo! on that score. Leaving off from the orgiastic 1960s, he writes:
To regulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivia pushes for climate crimes tribunal</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/19/climate-justice-tribunal/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/19/climate-justice-tribunal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Diplomats from the 17 largest economies are meeting behind closed doors for a second day today in Washington D.C. to work out their differences on climate change. As the name suggests&#8211;the Major Economies Forum&#8211;all the major players are there: the U.S., the European Union, Japan, China, India, Brazil, South Africa&#8230;
But 4,000 miles to the south, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horrors of spring</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/16/horrors-of-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/16/horrors-of-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I awoke to desperate screams. It was a bird, I knew next, and I got up to find my cat.
Luna was on our balcony over Emerald Avenue, a residential street on the South Side of Chicago bordered with maples and ashes. She had not caught a bird, but like me, she was investigating the screams, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China, India steal U.S. solar jobs</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/14/china-india-steal-u-s-solar-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

One of the more specious Republican claims about a carbon bill is that it will cost America jobs.
China and India are taking advantage of America&#8217;s climate bill stalemate to build an industry in renewable energy sources that has already cost America jobs.
BP Solar halted production of solar cells at its plant in Frederick, Maryland, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN postpones climate hopes for another year</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/11/bonn-climate-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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While Bolivia stole the headlines at this weekend&#8217;s climate talks in Bonn, the usual suspects took the blame as the United Nations lowered expectations once again for a binding international agreement on climate change this year.
&#8220;There is a standoff in terms of, we are saying okay we do not want to be alone in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. puts hammer lock on Copenhagen balkers</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/10/bonn-us-cuts-climate-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/10/bonn-us-cuts-climate-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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The United States is withholding climate-related aid to nations that do not endorse the Copenhagen Accord, leveraging its financial clout to force that beleaguered document to the forefront of efforts to halt global warming.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that the U.S. had decided to withhold aid from Bolivia and Ecuador, two vocal opponents of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another tale of two countries: UK dims lights, US dims hopes</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/09/uk-earth-efficiency-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/09/uk-earth-efficiency-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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Earth Hour was a big hit a couple of years ago&#8211;don&#8217;t you think?&#8211; when millions noticed the voluntary blackout rolling around the earth like the wave in a stadium full of bored fans. Isn&#8217;t it long past time we upped the ante: Earth Week, Earth Month, Earth Year?
The UK has a plan.
Beginning this month, large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans cozy up to coal on a dirty, deadly day</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/06/coal-accidents/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/04/06/coal-accidents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Ron Paul&#8217;s son Rand is a leading Senate candidate in Kentucky&#8217;s Republican primary, campaigning against change (he&#8217;s not averse to riding change&#8217;s coattails, though: he&#8217;s the latest to swipe his campaign&#8217;s Web design from Barack Obama).
Currently on a &#8220;Tea Party Bus Tour,&#8221; Rand Paul is attacking the Environmental Protection Agency, calling the agency &#8220;out of control&#8221; because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama issues environmental plea on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/03/13/dalai-lama-ethical-approach-to-environmental-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/03/13/dalai-lama-ethical-approach-to-environmental-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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The 291-word message, which ends &#8220;We must act before it is too late,&#8221; tells us less about His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, than it tells us about the last quarter century of environmental progress. The message issued yesterday is identical to the one the Dalai Lama issued on World Environment Day in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate stalemate steals millions from farmers</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/03/11/carbon-sequestration-farm-fork-financing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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American farmers were making millions by sequestering carbon in tilled land, preserved forest, and restored grassland until domestic and international opposition to a carbon cap devastated the carbon trading market.
&#8220;Thousands of farmers have cashed tens of thousands of checks worth tens of millions of dollars,&#8221; said Mike Walsh of the Chicago Climate Exchange, a market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York rolls veggie carts into food deserts; can other cities follow?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/03/11/new-york-green-cart-chicago-farm-fork-financing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City has rolled 350 carts loaded with fresh, local vegetables into its food deserts&#8211;those distraught urban areas where grocers hesitate to tread, and where, therefore, people have little alternative to processsed foods.
Another 650 vendors are expected to hit the outer boroughs once they wend through the city&#8217;s licensing, training, and permitting process.
New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venture capitalists meet with local, organic farmers to revolutionize food</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/03/09/financing-farm-to-fork-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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David Wilhelm, the venture capitalist who managed Bill Clinton&#8217;s 1992 campaign, will meet with local and organic farmers in Chicago on Thursday. So will venture capitalists from the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, professors from the University of Chicago&#8217;s Booth School of Business, and Woody Tasch, who has channeled $130 million to sustainable projects through a non-profit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The GOP is building a political base&#8230; for China</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/03/02/republicans-communism-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The climate triumvirate&#8217;s new energy bill will replace cap and trade with two or more different strategies&#8211;a carbon tax, perhaps a carbon fee, maybe a carbon dividend&#8211;each targeting a different segment of the economy and each with its own timing.
By dividing utilities and industries, and by spooning out pork in different sized ladles, Senators Kerry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free the gleaners!</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/02/24/legalize-garbage-picking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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Around the world they&#8217;re prosecuted and persecuted for doing what the world needs now&#8211;recycling.
I&#8217;m reminded of this by the latest issue of the new Indian magazine The Caravan, which features Mridhu Khullar&#8217;s profile of Banav Bibi, who sorts through trash discarded by wealthier residents of East Delhi, collecting anything that can be recycled or resold. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Chicago motorists save Chicago transit</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/02/02/chicago-transit-authority-cuts-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/02/02/chicago-transit-authority-cuts-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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If you were the union rep, would you let 1,100 workers lose their jobs when the city cuts bus and train routes? Or would you spread the pain across your membership by reopening hard-fought contracts, letting politicians whittle away your security/their overhead?
There ought to be a better choice, and maybe there is: let people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen signatories submit pledges, reveal fear of commitment</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/02/01/copenhagen-signatories-reveal-their-fear-of-commitment/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/02/01/copenhagen-signatories-reveal-their-fear-of-commitment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-five nations have attached formal emissions targets to the Copenhagen Accord, the United Nations reported today. But most nations, including the U.S., are hedging their pledges:
&#8220;In the range of 17 percent,&#8221; reads the U.S. commitment now attached to the Copenhagen Accord, &#8220;in conformity with anticipated U.S. energy and climate legislation, recognizing that the final target [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union: Obama will allow nukes and offshore derricks in trade for a climate bill</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/27/obama-state-of-the-union-climate/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/27/obama-state-of-the-union-climate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama tied prospects for a climate bill to concessions some environmentalists will find difficult to swallow: new oil derricks off of American coastlines and new nuclear power plants.
These concessions closely parallel those included in the framework for a new climate bill announced in December by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the President: Still green</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/27/obama-state-of-the-union-high-speed-rail/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/27/obama-state-of-the-union-high-speed-rail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. And in this case, that’s a good thing. In spite of shifting rhetoric, in spite of the changing hues on the shimmering surface of politics, Obama’s first initiative after his 2010 State of the Union Address will show he’s the same Obama who took office a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Senate politics, world to hold U.S. accountable on climate: UN</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/20/senate-scott-brown-cap-and-trade-yvo-de-boer/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/20/senate-scott-brown-cap-and-trade-yvo-de-boer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

With Scott Brown&#8217;s election to the Senate yesterday, hope has dimmed that the United States will cap its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming year, and on that hope rests the greater hope that the rest of the warming world can do the same.
But the world has no intention of letting the United States off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insane at any speed, the designed-in dangers of the American leftist</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/11/nader-senate-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/11/nader-senate-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

The brigands of the left take pride in refusing to compromise, but pride spirals inevitably into the sort of cynicism epitomized by this fresh quote from that posterboy of leftist pride, the uncompromising Ralph Nader:
&#8220;The attraction is a three-way race,&#8221; Nader told McClatchy Newspapers correspondent Maria Racio, who called him Friday to ask about his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you trade a Senate supermajority for a carbon cap?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/11/senate-byron-dorgan-earl-pomeroy-carbon/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/11/senate-byron-dorgan-earl-pomeroy-carbon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Exiting Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota are now free to vote in 2010 without concern for reelection.
That could be good news for a carbon cap and trade vote this year. After 2010, prospects look more grim, thanks in large part to North Dakota&#8217;s sooty politics.
Dorgan has been seen as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese whalers ram Sea Shepherd boat in Southern Ocean (video)</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/06/whale-wars-collision/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2010/01/06/whale-wars-collision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED with new video from Sea Shepherd, showing the Japanese ship turning toward the trimaran to ram it:
The whale wars are on again in the Southern Ocean off of Australia. One member of the Sea Shepherd crew was injured in this collision with the Japanese Whaling vessel Shonan Maru 2, with cracked ribs, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Dakota to sue Minnesota for even thinking about a carbon tax</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/31/carbon-tax-minnesota-north-dakota/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/31/carbon-tax-minnesota-north-dakota/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Not only can&#8217;t we pass a carbon tax in America, we can&#8217;t even think about one.
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said Tuesday he expects to sue Minnesota for just that, and North Dakota&#8217;s legislature has set aside $2 million to fund the lawsuit. Now there&#8217;s a good cause.
What did Minnesota do wrong? Two years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China mandates renewable energy while U.S. deepens its dithering</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/28/china-renewable-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/28/china-renewable-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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As often as socialism and communism are evoked to discredit the Obama Administration&#8217;s agenda, it can be illustrative to observe how communist governments actually behave.
China&#8217;s National People&#8217;s Congress convened on Dec. 22. Three days later it passed a law requiring China&#8217;s energy companies to buy all energy generated through renewable sources&#8211;wind, solar power, hydropower, biomass, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the &#8216;political agreement&#8217; in Copenhagen was not a failure</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/23/copenhagen-jairam-ramesh/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/23/copenhagen-jairam-ramesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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A legally-binding agreement was never going to happen.
In testimony before India&#8217;s parliament yesterday, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the BASIC countries&#8211;an acronym-jumble for Brazil, South Africa, India and China&#8211;would not have accepted a legally binding agreement:
&#8220;The BASIC group was able to&#8230; ensure that the Copenhagen Accord was not legally binding and there was no mention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After health-care defeat, petulant Republicans threaten to scuttle the earth</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/22/lindsey-graham-health-care-climate-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/22/lindsey-graham-health-care-climate-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s a sorry enough state of affairs that we live in a nation where two precious Senate seats are occupied by the likes of James Inhofe (R-Ok), who invokes his peculiar God to deny climate change, and Tom Coburn (R-Ok), who would sooner see misfortune befall a colleague than help millions of Americans acquire health insurance.
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Oscar for best performance at Copenhagen goes to&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/19/copenhagen-accord-sarkozy/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/19/copenhagen-accord-sarkozy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;You will hear many denounce the Copenhagen Accord. Many would have done so no matter what happened here.
There are many who dreamed of greater strides, and those dreams have again been deferred.
But isn&#8217;t it truly a dream to expect 193 nations&#8211;each with its own demands&#8211;to draft a detailed agreement together?
Some good came out of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Copenhagen Accord: Obama strong arms the world</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/19/copenhagen-accord-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/19/copenhagen-accord-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;He may not have wowed this city on arrival, but President Obama walked into a meeting of the world&#8217;s most powerful developing nations last night, divided his opposition, and pressed the larger United Nations assembly into salvaging these two weeks of talks with the 2 1/2-page document that will forever be known to history as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban Ki Moon: &#8216;We sealed the deal&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/19/copenhagen-accord/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/19/copenhagen-accord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon has just announced that the Copenhagen Accord has passed.
&#8220;Finally we sealed the deal, and it is a real deal,&#8221; he said moments ago at the UN Climate Change Conference here. &#8220;It may not be everything that everyone has hoped for, but this decision of the Conference of Parties is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama lands in Copenhagen and wows no one</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/18/copenhagen-obama-africa-bangladesh-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;Air Force One landed at Copenhagen airport one minute past nine this morning, and President Barack Obama was whisked immediately into a mini-summit with heads of state from 19 of the nations most critical to these negotiations.
The scheduled time for his speech to the plenary came and went, and hope, that Obama byword, grew that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crunch time in Copenhagen: world leaders expected to talk all night</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/17/copenhagen-final-day/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/17/copenhagen-final-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;The world&#8217;s two biggest polluters, China and the United States, remain in a standoff with one day to go in the climate talks here, with heads of state now negotiating among themselves in talks that may last all night.
Though all 192 participating nations arrived with particular offers and particular demands, they have been eclipsed, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton: U.S. will aid $100 billion annual fund for climate change</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/17/clinton-u-s-will-aid-100-billion-annual-fund-for-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swooped into deadlocked negotiations here today and announced the U.S. will contribute to a long-term fund&#8211;$100 billion by 2020&#8211;to help developing nations transition to cleaner energy.
The funding will come from a variety of sources, she said, public and private, and would be spent with a special emphasis on forestry and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Inhofe&#8217;s truth squad: one man, one press conference, one quick exit</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/17/copenhagen-inhofe/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/17/copenhagen-inhofe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;He promised to lead a truth squad to Copenhagen to tell a particular &#8220;truth&#8221;&#8211; that anthropogenic global warming is “the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state,” as he told Bloomberg, and that we needn’t worry about global warming, as he told Fox, because “God’s still up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Kerry: Copenhagen accord needed for Senate to pass climate bill</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/16/copenhagen-john-kerry/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/16/copenhagen-john-kerry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;The U.S. Senate needs a Copenhagen deal in order to pass a climate bill of its own, Sen. John Kerry said here moments ago, and any Copenhagen deal has to ensure that less developed nations don&#8217;t simply replace any carbon emissions that are saved in the United States.
&#8220;Success here is critical to success in the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danish police 2, climate protesters 0</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/16/copenhagen-reclaim-power-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;This was to be the day that would surpass the WTO protests in Seattle&#8211;the day a loose confederation of protesters would overwhelm police, storm the Bella Center, and aided by infiltrators within, displace world leaders and supplant the intricate negotiations here with their blunt list of heartfelt demands.
Between 3,000 and 4,000 demonstrators materialized, by one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danish PM takes reins of climate talks, new Danish text sparks new uproar</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/16/copenhagen-lars-l%c3%b8kke-rasmussen/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/16/copenhagen-lars-l%c3%b8kke-rasmussen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen took over the presidency of the climate talks here today and found himself immediately facing an uproar over yet another &#8216;Danish text&#8217;.
While tempers flared inside, teargas swirled outside. Thousands of demonstrators are pressing against lines of police, crossing canals on rubber rafts, trying to storm the building in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To mend climate dispute, Obama phones Africa and Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/15/copenhagen-obama-africa-bangladesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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COPENHAGEN&#8211;On Monday, as negotiations halted in a dispute between developed and developing nations, President Obama picked up the phone and called two key players: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh and Prime Minister Meles of Ethiopia, leader of the African delegation, which led the rebellion on Monday.
&#8220;With Prime Minister Meles, the President reviewed efforts by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arnold: What if Copenhagen is not enough?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/15/arnold-what-if-copenhagens-not-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger caused a stir as the first celebrity to arrive at the UN Climate Change Conference here, and then by suggesting the efforts of local and regional governments, like the state he represents and the city we find ourselves in, will ultimately be more important.
&#8220;This city distinguishes itself by being so clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stars come out in Copenhagen; negotiators feel the heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, John Kerry, Ban Ki-Moon, Robert Mugabe, Prince Charles&#8211;the first wave of the famous arrived today, and tonight British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be the first &#8220;major country&#8221; head of state to join them.
In the next three days, up to 120 heads of state and innumerable heroes of the environment are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA promotes electricity from manure, dairy farmers pledge 25 percent emissions cut</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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COPENHAGEN&#8211;A typical herd of 700 dairy cows can power 200 homes, according to the nation&#8217;s top farmer, but only about 2 percent of them do that job. The US plans to plug in more cows.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. dairy producers here today, vowing to accelerate the development of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate talks resume: Africa forces binding emission reductions back on table</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/14/copenhagen-african-walkout/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/14/copenhagen-african-walkout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;Developing countries refused to allow climate talks to continue here today until organizers agreed to emphasize legally binding commitments by developed nations to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution.
Danish Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard, the president of the UN Climate Change Conference, had called an informal session for Monday morning on some of the most difficult issues facing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. announces &#8216;Climate REDI&#8217; initiative to transfer clean tech to developing world</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/14/copenhagen-climate-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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COPENHAGEN&#8211;U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a $350 million initiative here today, dubbed &#8220;Climate REDI,&#8221; to transfer clean-energy technologies to developing nations.
Italian Environment Minister Stefania Prestigiacomo and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh attended Chu&#8217;s event at the U.S. Center to announce their participation as a technology contributor and recipient, respectively. Australia announced it will contribute $5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Report: Weather disasters down in 2009 but trend still soaring</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/14/copenhagen-weather-disasters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;The world&#8217;s leading experts on weather-related disasters sounded much like climate scientists this morning, urging the press and the public not to interpret an annual dip in numbers as an indication that global warming is less of a threat. Instead, they urged the world, pay attention to trends.
&#8220;There is a huge variability from year to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halftime in Copenhagen: what to expect in week two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;Week one of the UN Climate Change Conference had its dramas&#8211;leaked drafts, big stands by tiny nations, tiffs between the U.S. and China. But week one was mere prelude, in which negotiators tried to settle as many issues as possible to clear the table for the heavyweights in week two. And of course, the issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With uncertain message, protesters march on climate talks; hundreds arrested</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/12/with-uncertain-message-protestors-march-on-climate-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED with arrest of 968, including &#8220;black bloc&#8221; anarchists; bonfire concludes demonstration against carbon pollution.
COPENHAGEN&#8211;The sun emerged from days of cloud cover this morning and shined on tens of thousands of demonstrators as they gathered in front of Christiansborg Palace, the seat of Denmark&#8217;s Parliament, to demand climate justice.
The meaning of that phrase varied, though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. officials in Copenhagen get behind new Senate climate alliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;A proposal by Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman to rewrite carbon cap and trade as part of a more comprehensive energy bill echoed from U.S. officials in Copenhagen today and won praise from the chief American negotiator here.
&#8220;This is quite a significant development, a significant step toward a comprehensive framework for energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll do anything to save this planet except give up meat</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/11/copenhagen-vegetarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;Tens of thousands have converged on Copenhagen to stop global warming, either through a new treaty or through protests demanding more dramatic measures. Thousands more have come to lobby those people, film them, and write about them.
And untold thousands of chickens, cows, and fish have died to feed them, revealing the reluctance of even the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commerce Secretary tells Copenhagen audience the oil economy is over</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/11/copenhagen-commerce-secretary-gary-locke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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COPENHAGEN&#8211;The world&#8217;s petroleum-based economy belongs to the past, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said here Friday.
He urged the 192 nations who sent representatives to the UN Climate Change Conference to resist pressures from those with vested interests in the status quo, eliminate incentives to the petroleum industry, and design incentives to create jobs in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s America&#8217;s fair share of climate fund? Sweden ups the ante</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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UPDATED with comments from EU chief negotiator. Dec. 11, 2009 at 2:22 am
COPENHAGEN&#8211;European nations have stopped talking about paying their fair share and started putting money on the table for a fast-start emergency fund to help the world&#8217;s poorest nations adapt to the cleaner world economy likely to be proposed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cap and trade will come through Congress, EPA chief says</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/09/copenhagen-epa-lisa-jackson-carbon-dioxide-endangerment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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COPENHAGEN&#8211;On Monday in Washington, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson gave President Obama the power to cut greenhouse gas emissions without help from Congress.
Moments ago in Copenhagen, she passed up numerous opportunities to threaten to use that power, saying America&#8217;s carbon cap and trade program will come through Congress.
&#8220;When we return home we will work closely with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaked &#8216;Danish text&#8217; won&#8217;t halt climate talks</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/08/copenhagen-danish-text/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;In this diplomatic dancehall of drafts of agreements, proposals for protocols, the latest intrigue swirls around a dubious document described as &#8220;the Danish text,&#8221; which created a tempest in the telling, if not in the talks.
The Guardian newspaper posted a copy of the text, which is dated Nov. 27, this afternoon. It seemed to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naomi Klein reminds Copenhagen protesters that protesters can get violent</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/08/copenhagen-naomi-klein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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COPENHAGEN&#8211;Naomi Klein won&#8217;t go so far as to urge protesters in Copenhagen to turn violent during the United Nations conference here, but she keeps reminding them of the last time they busted windows.
Last night, Klein gave the opening speech at Klimaforum09, which claims to be the &#8220;people&#8217;s climate summit,&#8221; in Copenhagen&#8217;s city center, a 15-minute train [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. declares carbon dioxide a pollutant, promises to pay its share</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/07/copenhagen-carbon-dioxide-endangerment-finding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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COPENHAGEN&#8211;The United States marked the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference by declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant, by defending its goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, and by promising to pay &#8220;its fair share&#8221; of a $10 billion annual fund for less developed nations.
In return, U.S. climate-change envoy Jonathan Pershing insisted those nations comply with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Copenhagen&#8217;s first crush, UN has more delegates than seats at the table</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/07/copenhagen-crowded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN&#8211;The UN Climate Conference is under siege in Copenhagen, but not yet from the expected crowds of protestors. As the conference opens today, the masses that have crowded the meeting place include 34,000 delegates from nations and non-governmental organizations.
That&#8217;s more than double the number of people the UN can accommodate at the meetings venue, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One carp stirs the (poisoned) waters in Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
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Illinois state officials poisoned six miles of the Sanitary and Ship Canal southwest of Chicago on Wednesday to determine whether any of the tens of thousands of dead fish that sufaced were Asian carp, an invasive species.
One was.
“This is clearly a significant find in this operation that validates why it is so important for this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climategate brings Copenhagen conspiracies closer to Congress</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/03/copenhagen-conspiracy-alien-invasion-new-world-order-global-slavery-human-population-cull/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/12/03/copenhagen-conspiracy-alien-invasion-new-world-order-global-slavery-human-population-cull/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sensenbrenner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New World Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/?p=2454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some suspect the treaty that will be negotiated in Copenhagen over the next two weeks is just a cover for a pact with extraterrestrials, for a one-world government that will enslave the masses, for plans by the Illuminati to cull the world population.
At the heart of these theories is the lurking suspicion that climate scientists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s Bridgeport neighborhood comes out as diverse</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/29/bridgeport-chicago-diversity/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/29/bridgeport-chicago-diversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport neighborhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport Neighborhood Sees Identity Shift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil and political rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DePaul University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/?p=2403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve struggled with this story for years, unsure how to write it effectively enough, superstitious that writing about a good thing could spoil it—for if you write about a sunny day in Chicago, rain is sure to follow—and uncertain I was the right man for the job.
Why should anyone believe it coming from a Mick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen is on; Obama proposes a treaty and leads U.S. delegation</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/25/copenhagen-is-on-obama-to-a-lead-u-s-delegation/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/25/copenhagen-is-on-obama-to-a-lead-u-s-delegation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenhouse gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidency of Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Un Climate Conference Copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/?p=2377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

First the climate bill was dead, then the climate bill was not dead yet, then Copenhagen was dead, then Copenhagen was not dead yet, and now it&#8217;s all back on the table, right where President Obama said it would be: a legally binding climate treaty calling for an ambitious reduction in carbon dioxide&#8211;83 percent by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN quantifies the environment&#8217;s value, but will that stop the paving?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/17/un-environmental-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/17/un-environmental-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coral reef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecosystem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEEB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Environment Programme]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/?p=2356</guid>
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By speaking the language of capital to capitalists, the United Nations hopes to prove that damaging the environment costs them more than it profits them. But if you ask me, men of property will still opt for the profit.
This weekend, the UN released a study on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, which touts the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Max Baucus&#8217;s no vote on the climate bill sets up the final yes</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/09/max-baucus-climate-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/09/max-baucus-climate-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cap and trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenhouse gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Baucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/?p=2335</guid>
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Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana) voted against the climate bill as it emerged from committee last week, leading many to fret about the bill&#8217;s chances. Yet Baucus himself is optimistic. How can this be?
It suggests a strategy not unlike the one Democrats just used to pass health-care reform in the House:
While the opposition spent itself hollering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican climate-bill boycott: last stand or dereliction of duty?</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/03/republicans-boycott-climate-bill-tuesday/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/2009/11/03/republicans-boycott-climate-bill-tuesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fossil fuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Lautenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Environment and Public Works Committee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trueslant.com/jeffmcmahon/?p=2316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republican boycott of the Senate climate bill could go down in history as a noble last stand or as a symbol suggesting that on the leading issues of the day, Republicans have nothing to contribute anyway.
Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee didn&#8217;t show up for a work meeting on the [...]]]></description>
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