Cleantech (& Dirty Tech) Policy & Politics News {Weekly Round-Up}

Some of the top (or totally depressing) cleantech and dirty tech political news and commentary of the week….

1. Most Anti-Environment House of Representatives in History Tries to Do More Damage
2. Clean-Energy Law Boosts Jobs In Ontario
3. Senate releases transportation bill outline
4. Polluting Democracy
5. Michele Bachmann, Eric Cantor Part Of ‘Dirty Money Team’
6. GOP Rep Seeks to Stop Kids from Learning about Energy Efficiency
7. Students Get Lobby Group Material From Chris de Freitas in Climate 101 Lectures
8. President Of Nauru Calls On Security Council To Respond To Climate Change
9. Dirty Money For Dirty Water: Groups Supporting Bill to Gut Clean Water Act Outspend Opposition 23 To 1
10. Climate-Denying Oklahoma Governor Tells Residents To Pray For Rain
11. News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent Investigation
12. Government Official’s Associates Reportedly Got Big Contracts After BP Oil Spill
13. House Votes To Restore $90 Million Of $2.3 Billion Cut From Green Energy Research
14. What if the CO2 Ceiling Debate Were Like the Debt Ceiling Debate
15. Map: Countries’ actions and commitments on climate change
16. An Assault on the Clean Water Act
17. Time for Congress to End Big Oil Subsidies
18. Saving Clean Energy in New Jersey: Thank You, State Legislators!
19. Rail-Wary FL Gov. Scott Threw Caution to the Wind in Supporting SunRail
20. GAO Report Confirms That Politics, Not Science, Drove Bush EPA Decision Not To Regulate Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water
21. Tom Donahue And The U.S. Chamber Of Secrets
22. Does Lord Voldemort Run the US Chamber of Commerce?
23. The Loan Arranger: Time to Rescue Clean Energy Funding
24. Bachmann’s Pledge To Eliminate The EPA Is Fueled By Koch
25. Fossil Billionaire Brawl: Charles Koch Vs. T. Boone Pickens
26. GOP Wants To Slash EPA Funding To 1990s Levels, Slash Funds For Oil Spill Prevention
27. Fred Upton Pushes Vote to Kill His Own Light Bulb Efficiency Standards
28. How Many Republicans Does It Take to Screw Up Our Light Bulb Savings?
29. Appropriations Bill Represents Unprecedented Attack on Environment
30. GOP’s Accomplishments This Year: Styrofoam Cups, Little Else
31. The Exquisite Irony of the House GOP Transpo Bill Cover
32. Bi-Partisan Political Veterans Team Up to Design a New Gas Tax System
33. What the US Can Learn from Australia Going All-In on Carbon Tax

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