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<title><![CDATA[Bradford Plumer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15372.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bradford Plumer]]></description><category domain="15372">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[5 Myths About the Solyndra Collapse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/five-myths-about-the-solyndra-collapse/2011/09/14/gIQAfkyvRK_blog.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are still plenty of nagging questions about the collapse of Solyndra, the California-based solar-panel maker that went bankrupt last month after getting $535 million worth of loan guarantees from the Obama administration. Such as: Did the Energy Department fail to do due diligence?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al Gore on &quot;the Reality We're Facing&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/al-gore-the-message-still-has-to-be-about-the-reality-were-facing/2011/09/12/gIQAZjNxMK_blog.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Brad Plumer: &ldquo;An Inconvenient Truth&rdquo; was basically a primer on global warming&mdash;the causes, the problems it creates, the ways we can avert it. So what more is there to add? How will this new presentation be different?AG: It&rsquo;s very different&mdash;a few of the images...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Case Against John Edwards Ridiculous?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/89446/john-edwards-rielle-hunter-fec-campaign-finance</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just how screwed is John Edwards? On Friday, the Justice Department indicted  the former senator on charges of conspiracy, perjury, and  campaign-finance-law violations. No laughing matter. But to hear  Edwards&rsquo;s lawyers tell it, the government&rsquo;s case is absurd. Here&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Can Obama Do About Gas Prices?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/87539/obama-gas-prices-epa-boehner</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Oil is up around $110 per barrel; the price of gas at the pump is approaching $4 per gallon. It's clear the White House is nervous about this: Barack Obama has started mentioning gas prices everywhere he goes. There are two big questions here: Are rising gas prices going to sink...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Green Movement Blame Game]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/87140/environmental-green-movement-al-gore-nesbit</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What the hell went wrong? For months now, environmentalists have been asking themselves that question, and it&rsquo;s easy to see why. After Barack Obama vaulted into the White House in 2008, it really did look like the United States was finally going to do something about global...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Really Need Nuclear Power?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/85289/nuclear-power-us-japan-melt-down</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just how necessary is nuclear power? Lately, politicians around  the globe have been asking themselves that question as they watch a  small handful Japanese technicians race to prevent  three reactors from spewing out radiation at the quake-ravaged  Fukushima Daiichi plant. In recent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carnival of Right-Wing Wares at CPAC]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/83367/cpac-nra-safari-club-carnival</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the speeches by various conservative bigwigs at the annual CPAC  conference in Washington, D.C., are always fun&#194;&#151;who doesn&#194;&#146;t love  listening to Ron Paul rail against foreign aid or Mitt Romney explain  that, unlike Barack Obama, he wouldn&#194;&#146;t need to ask his Treasury  Secretary for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Ignores Climate Change Science]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/83196/epa-regulations-congress-inhofe-upton</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you spend enough time listening to climate deniers speak, you start to recognize certain tropes and tics that crop up again and again. There's the personal conversion story, for instance. The skeptic explains how, once upon a time, he, too, blindly accepted everything climatologists...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Serious Budget Headache]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/81921/republicans-budget-cuts-RSC-boehner</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that Republicans in the House have beat back health care reform (or, at least, passed a repeal bill that's destined to wilt in the Senate), it&#194;&#146;s on to the next order of business&#194;&#151;hacking away at government spending. Plenty of them can't wait. As Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake said on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Debt Limit Brawl]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/81724/are-republicans-really-looking-forward-showdown-the-debt-limit</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of conservatives who can't wait for a knockdown brawl over the federal debt ceiling this spring. As South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint put it, "We need to have a showdown, at this point, that we're not going to increase our debt ceiling anymore." Likewise, three GOP...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mental Health Reform Long Overdue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/health-care/81563/jared-lee-loughner-mental-health</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s still a lot we don&rsquo;t know about the massacre in Arizona, but by now it&rsquo;s quite clear that the alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was mentally disturbed. In college, he was prone to surreal rants that unnerved classmates and teachers. While working at an animal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The EPA Is Doing Its Job]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/80520/the-epa-really-ignoring-congress</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, shortly before Christmas, the EPA posted a quick item on its website announcing a timetable for new climate regulations on power plants and petroleum refineries. This, in turn, provoked all sorts of outrage and confusion. Industry lobbyists blasted the move. James Inhofe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time To Reconsider Light Bulb Ban?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/79311/it-time-reconsider-the-light-bulb-ban</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When, exactly, did light bulbs become a conservative litmus test? Back in 2007, if you'll recall, George W. Bush signed an energy bill that tightened efficiency standards for lighting. It wasn't a big deal at the time. The bill just meant that manufacturers would slowly have to phase out...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Earmark Ban Is Doomed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/79222/why-the-republican-earmark-ban-doomed-fail</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So how's that Republican war on pork holding up? All week, conservatives like Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn have been pushing their fellow senators to put a two-year moratorium on earmarks. They've managed to persuade Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and even Mississippi's prime...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Noon For Climate Skepticism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/77664/high-noon-climate-skepticism</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's been a good year for climate skeptics. Not, mind you, because they've been vindicated at all on the merits. Quite the opposite: 2010 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record, Arctic sea ice continues to thin out, heat waves have been torching Russia, and nearly one-fifth of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Spill &amp; the Climate Change Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/75591/oh-the-humanity</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Take your pick on what's most infuriating about the oil crisis in the Gulf. There's the growing evidence that the platform blowout that caused all that crude to erupt out of the ocean floor was entirely preventable and should never have happened in the first place. BP cut corners on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politics and the Planet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/book/review/politics-and-the-planet</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Duty of Harsh CriticismBloomsbury USA, 320 pp., $25I'm not trying to start a nerdy parlor game, but if we were to list the most important climate scientists of the past fifty years, James Hansen would have to be in the mix. Three decades ago, he helped create one of the world's first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Quick Primer on EPA's Coming Carbon Regulations]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/the-epas-coming-carbon-regulations-quick-primer</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the EPA formally published its finding that greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health. It's printed in the Federal Register and everything. So now that that's finished, what comes next? When do the new CO2 regulations hit? Here's a quick primer on what to expect.First...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Wall Street Harm Climate Progress?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/planet-worth</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the different industry groups scrambling to shape climate policy in Washington--from electric utilities to Detroit automakers--one stands out as a bit unexpected: Wall Street. Financial giants like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have enlisted, all told, more than 100 lobbyists to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carbon Trading: What Europe Can Teach Us]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2009/06/29/carbon-trading-what-europe-can-actually-teach-us.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the questions about climate policy, one of the biggest is whether a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases will even work. Will it actually and tangibly reduce emissions? The only real-world example we have is the EU&#39;s Emissions Trading System, set up in 2005. Conservatives...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Energy Slipping On Obama's To-Do List?]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2009/06/10/is-energy-slipping-on-obama-s-to-do-list.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over at Grist, Dave Roberts has a smart piece on how health care reform has surpassed energy and climate change as Barack Obama's number-one domestic priority&#194;&#151;and what that shift means for the prospects of getting both items done.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Breakthrough to Avert Climate Crisis?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=532df6a0-27db-420d-8480-25e229618117</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Recession's Here. Let's Tax Carbon!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=ddacb89c-51d1-4d56-ac31-4df5234602f6</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of Aviation]]></title>
							<link>http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=78260c55-a850-478f-9ffd-b8023fd89459</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradford Plumer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Environmental Catastrophe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9ef5103b-15cf-4bd6-b7a1-34940b9edeca</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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