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<title><![CDATA[Mark Hertsgaard - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17172.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Hertsgaard]]></description><category domain="17172">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[We Can Run the World Without Fossil Fuels]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/we-can-run-the-world-without-fossil-fuels/ar-AA1DU9E4</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boston is an inspiring place to be in the face of the wannabe authoritarianism of Trump 2.0. Particularly in the older parts of the city, one comes across sign after sign to remind you that this is where Americans rose up 250 years ago to reject the very idea of rule by a king in favor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fallout From the Greenpeace Verdict]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-fallout-from-the-greenpeace-verdict/ar-AA1CfAXy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 19, a jury in the fossil fuel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'producing state of North Dakota ordered the environmental group Greenpeace to pay a staggering $660 million for allegedly defaming Energy Transfer, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a decision that threatens to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jane Fonda to Young People: Do Not Sit Election Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/jane-fonda-climate-activism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Electing Kamala Harris and then pushing her to deliver is the only chance for climate survival, says the Hollywood actress and activist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-denialism-is-literally-killing-us/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The horrors hurled at Houston and the Himalayan lowlands in late August were heartbreaking'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but also infuriating. How many times must we see this disaster movie'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'titled Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, along with many lesser-?known...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Climate-Wrecking Agenda Could Fail]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/why-trumps-climate-wrecking-agenda-could-fail/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump and the Keystone XL pipeline are made for each other'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??both are built on a cascade of outrageous lies'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??so of course the Republican president is now promising to make the pipeline a reality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Protests Put Trump on Notice: You're In for a Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/protests-are-putting-trump-on-notice-youre-in-for-a-fight/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The presidency of Donald Trump has just begun, and already the Resistance has made history. The women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s marches on January 21 were almost certainly the largest act of political protest ever to occur in the United States. Their size, defiant tone, and the fact that they occurred on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lying About Climate Change Isn't Free Speech, It's Fraud]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/note-to-exxon-lying-about-climate-change-isnt-free-speech-its-fraud/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When in trouble, change the subject'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or at least try to. So it is that the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s oldest, richest, and most powerful oil company, under investigation for apparently lying to investors and the public for decades about the deadliness of its products, has launched a high-stakes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good News on Climate Change--and Bad News]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/good-news-on-climate-changeand-bad-news/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With a nod to Dickens, are these the best of times or the worst of times in the battle to prevent climate chaos? There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s plenty of evidence both ways, starting with the potential game changer that humanity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s greenhouse-gas emissions may have peaked, at least in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Lesson for Paris Climate Talks: Follow the Activists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/the-climate-in-paris/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' military strategy has long been predicated on being able to fight two wars at once. Now the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, just weeks before the French capital hosts a landmark international climate-change summit, will test whether the world as a whole can...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paris Climate Conference: Last Chance for Earth?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/the-paris-climate-conference-last-chance-for-planet-earth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Everything is coming together as everything is coming apart.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' So said Jamie Henn, strategy and communications director at 350.org, after he and the other organizers of the People'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Climate March put hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of New York City in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Direst Climate Forecast Yet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/20/climate-seer-james-hansen-issues-his-direst-forecast-yet.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[James Hansen, the former NASA scientist whose congressional testimony put global warming on the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agenda a quarter century ago, is now warning that humanity could confront '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'sea level rise of several meters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' before the end of the century unless greenhouse gas...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Know-Nothings Jeopardize Climate Progress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/190465/will-republican-know-nothings-torpedo-climate-progress</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first order of business for the new GOP majorities in both houses of Congress is to dismantle as much of President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agenda as possible'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'starting with climate change. This is not mere speculation: the first two items prospective Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Other Keystone Pipeline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/178922/other-keystone</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Be a Fracking Gashole. Thus urged one of the signs at a boisterous climate change rally held in front of Baltimore'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s City Hall on February 20. As unseasonably warm breezes spun the blades of the tiny windmills many of the 800-plus protesters held aloft, a dozen students...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making the 2012 Heat Wave Matter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/169089/feel-burn-making-2012-heat-wave-matter</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There have been two, maybe three, landmark heat waves in the history of man-made global warming. The first was in 1988. Then as now, the eastern two-thirds of the United States was broiling while relentless drought parched soil and withered crops across the Midwest. But in Washington,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Save Earth Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/167466/save-earth-day</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Celebrated every April 22 for the past forty-two years, Earth Day is showing its (middle) age. Instead of rallying public pressure for far-reaching reforms, Earth Day is becoming, at least in the United States, a bland, tired ritual that polluters and politicians have learned to ignore...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nation's Biggest Climate Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/04/beyond-coal-plant-activism</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By most accounts, the summer of 2010'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'when climate legislation died its slow, agonizing death on Capitol Hill'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'was not a happy time for environmentalists. So why was Mary Anne Hitt feeling buoyant, even hopeful? Part of the reason, no doubt, were the endorphins of first-time...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Keystone Pipeline Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/164658/keystone-victory</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Victories against climate change have been rare, so it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s vital to recognize them when they happen. The Obama administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline is one such victory'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'arguably the most important achievement in the climate fight in North America in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Science Was Saved--For Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/159954/how-climate-science-was-saved-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the recent budget showdown, as House Republicans made their  boldest effort yet'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and failed, at least for now'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to repeal mainstream  climate science, Democratic Representative Ed Markey of Massachusetts  managed to find some dark comedy in the situation. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change: Galileo Moment for GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49529.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will it take the Republican Party as long to accept modern science as  it took the Roman Catholic Church? The church waited 359 years to admit  Galileo was right '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the earth does move around the sun. Not until 1992  did the Vatican officially withdraw its condemnation of the man...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confronting the Climate Cranks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/157903/confronting-climate-cranks</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I didn't realize it at the time, but my daughter was born at a momentous  turning point in history. She arrived on a sunny San Francisco  afternoon in April 2005. All the nurses kept remarking on how alert this  baby was, so her mother and I decided to name her Chiara, which means ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make the Big Green Buy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hertsgaard-green-technology-20101219,0,4035520.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that anti-science Republicans have taken control of the House, and the Cancun climate summit made  only modest progress, pessimism about fighting climate change is fast  congealing into conventional wisdom. Those on both sides of the issue  say there is no chance of strong action...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Summit: Reason for Optimism?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/157107/reason-optimism-out-canc%C3%BAn-climate-summit</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA["You have been negotiating all my life," 21-year-old Mima Haider of  Lebanon told delegates at the United Nations climate negotiations in  Canc'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('º').';'n. "You cannot tell me you need more time." But that's pretty much  what they did tell her, and the rest of us. True, some important ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hot, Brutal Summers Are New Normal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-hertsgaard/meet-generation-hot_b_737163.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My daughter Chiara, age five, is a member.  So is my  goddaughter Emily, age twenty-two.  So are the thousands of Pakistani  children now suffering after record monsoon rains left 20 percent of  their country -- an area the size of Great Britain -- under water.In fact, every child on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kicking the Oil Habit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/37527/kicking-oil-habit</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Captain Pete, as everyone in town calls him, has been an oysterman  nearly his entire life. He started as a boy, learning the trade from his  father, who had learned it from his father. Working  fourteen-hour days from leased oyster beds in Barataria Bay, forty miles  south of New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Believe Spin From Climate Deniers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100503/hertsgaard</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain famously said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. He could just as easily have included polls. Advocates across the political spectrum habitually cite polls to "prove" that the public holds a certain view of a given issue, even when the truth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Copenhagen: What to Do Next?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100125/hertsgaard</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Planetary Movement]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/hertsgaard</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Global Green Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090316/hertsgaard?rel=hp_picks</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Green Team]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081229/hertsgaard?rel=hp_picks</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Hertsgaard</author>
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