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Center for American Progress Skiing and other winter sports are threatened by climate change. Businessmen and skiers alike are working together to preserve the pastime.
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A 1.5 megawatt wind turbine built by Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort rises high above the tree line near the summit of Jiminy Peak in Hancock, MA, on December 16, 2008.
Center for American Progress Michael Ettlinger, Michael Linden, and Lauren Bazel outline a strategy for realigning the federal budget.
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Copies of President Obama's first budget for fiscal 2010 are picked-up at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington.
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The public is concerned about the federal
deficit, but they still think government efforts to turn the economy
around should have priority.
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There is no question that the public has become more sensitive to the deficit in the last year. This partly reflects the fact that the deficit has grown and the public doesn’t like deficits. But ...
Center for American Progress Statement from John D. Podesta on Senate passage of historic health care reform legislation.
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"I congratulate Majority Leader Reid and the members of the United States Senate for taking a historic step forward toward reforming our nation’s health care system.
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Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite interviews
Christian evangelical Tyler Wigg-Stevenson about his project to
eliminate nuclear weapons.
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In March 2009, President Barack Obama called for the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons. Many Americans, whether they were conservatives, centrists, or liberals, understood Obama to be staking out a progressive position on nuclear disarmament.
Center for American Progress Michael Ettlinger gives some options for handling the expiration of the Bush tax cuts at the end of next year.
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President George W. Bush gestures as he addresses the National Newspaper Association meeting in Washington on March 22, 2001. Bush's tax cuts are set to expire at the end of next year, putting the president and Congress in a tough position.
Center for American Progress If Copenhagen fails, blame the process and not the parties, says Andrew Light from the front lines of the conference.
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President Barack Obama speaks at the morning plenary session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark on December 18, 2009. Obama said in the session that ...
Center for American Progress Eric Alterman and Mickey Ehrlich give a history lesson on how conservatives control health care costs.
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President George W. Bush delivers remarks on Medicare to the Illinois State Medical Society on June 11, 2003 in Chicago. Bush's White House grossly underestimated the cost of Bush's Medicare prescription drug benefit program.
Center for American Progress Despite rifts in climate negotiations at Copenhagen there are encouraging signs, reports Tom Hilde.
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A representative from an African nongovernmental organization gets information from the interactive climate wall at the Bella Convention Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 14, 2009. It's still ...
Center for American Progress Andrew Light discusses preliminary data from CAP's carbon cap equivalent project, which shows that countries may be making greater progress than it appears.
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Measures of carbon cap equivalents take into account carbon-reducing initiatives such as reforestation, which is occuring across the country to help curb global warming. One such project is occurring in the Ven Eck Oregon Forest, pictured here.
Center for American Progress Andrew Light discusses an alternative method of measuring emission reductions, how it would affect U.S. efforts, and whether global emission reduction efforts are achievable.
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What are carbon cap equivalents? How do carbon cap equivalents change thinking on U.S. emissions reduction efforts? And how achievable are global emission reduction goals?
Center for American Progress Americans demonstrate strong support for combating climate change in recent polls
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Debate has been vigorous at the Copenhagen climate summit, which continues all this week. We shall see if this debate leads to a meaningful global agreement on combating climate change. But it’s ...
Center for American Progress CAP and the Global Climate Network release a report on domestic low-carbon job creation in an interconnected world.
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A construction worker places a solar energy panel in a solar energy field under construction in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in Rancho Cordova, California.
Center for American Progress Andrew Light, Rebecca Lefton, and Daniel J. Weiss debunk common misconceptions on the U.N. climate change conference.
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Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Loekke Rasmussen speaks during the opening ceremony of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 7, 2009.
Center for American Progress On the 61st anniversary of Human Rights Day, William F. Schulz observes that the norms and values celebrated today still hold governments to account, be they democratic, like the United States, or authoritarian, like China.
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Activists hold lighted candles to mark the 60th anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights in Manila, Philippines, on December 10, 2008. This year marks the occasion on which to ask whether ...
