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Alyssa Battistoni

Alyssa Battistoni writes about the environment and politics from Seattle.

High tide begins to flood a street on the shoreline area of Milford, Conn., as Hurricane Sandy approaches Oct. 29, 2012. (Reuters/Michelle Mcloughlin)

Will 2013 be the year we finally address climate change?

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A firefighter works a burnout operation on the north flank of the Fontenelle Fire outside Big Piney, Wyoming, July 4, 2012. (Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

Climate skeptics still not worried

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(AP/Matthew Brown)

Worse than Keystone

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The Syncrude tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. (Reuters/Todd Korol)

The truth about Keystone

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Members of the "chain gang" assemble a pipeline near Burlington, Ill. (AP)

Keystone pipeline will spill, study predicts

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The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota. (Reuters)

Pipeline foes beat back bogus gas price claims

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Protestors outside the White House demand a stop to the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trench warfare rages over Keystone pipeline

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Protesters marched against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington last November. (Jeff Malet/<a href='http://www.maletphoto.com'>MaletPhoto.com</a>)

Obama punts the Keystone pipeline

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A protestor speaks against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pipeline installed on Capitol Hill

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Pipeline politics (Reuters/Stephen Lam)

Keystone pipeline as GOP poison pill

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The TXI Midlothian Cement plant in Midlothian, Texas (AP/Tony Gutierrez)

GOP fights for dirty air

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(iStockphoto/dlewis33)

What Obama got right on green jobs

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A worker fixes solar modules at a solar park in Spremberg, Germany

The lessons of Solyndra

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Sarah Palin in front of her bus

Sarah Palin and profit-motive politics

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FILE - In this May 16, 2011 file photo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court. Strauss-Kahn, a wealthy French politician accustomed to high living and globe-trotting, wants off Rikers Island, a modern-day Bastille known as one of America's largest and roughest jail complexes. Behind bars on Rikers since Monday, the beleaguered IMF chief is scheduled to return to a Manhattan court on Thursday afternoon to again ask for bail on charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid _ a move seemed certain to face vigorous opposition by prosecutors. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool) (AP)

The upside of “puritanical” politics

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Texas Governor Rick Perry makes remarks at the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC) in Washington, February 11, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

When conservatives choose God over science

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Why is it so hard to raise taxes on the rich?

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Demonstrators protest against the coalition government spending cuts as they march in London, Saturday, March 26, 2011. Some tens of thousands of mostly peaceful demonstrators streamed into central London on Saturday to march against government budget cuts, with a small breakaway group of demonstrators smashing its way into a bank, breaking windows and spray painting logos on the walls, as police struggle to contain the situation. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori) (AP)

The Brits are furious: Why aren’t we?

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Kathryn Schulze wears a message written on tape over her mouth inside the state Capitol Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, in Madison, Wis. Opponents to Governor Scott Walker's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers are taking part in their seventh day of protesting. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) (AP)

The dirty secret of public-sector union busting

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David Brooks’ bias toward elite values

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President Barack Obama makes a statement on the resignation of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in the Grand Foyer at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Who’s really guilty of a power grab?

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Barack Obama

The problem with “It’s the economy, stupid”

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A homeless person sits on the sidewalk on skid row in downtown Angeles, California November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Fred Prouser (UNITED STATES SOCIETY) (© Fred Prouser / Reuters)

The “culture of poverty” myth returns

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President Obama signs the healthcare bill in the East Room of the White House, on March 23, 2010.

Don’t make healthcare the scapegoat

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