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<title><![CDATA[Emily Atkin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29124.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Emily Atkin]]></description><category domain="29124">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Poised to Alter the Face of Global Conflict]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/154953/climate-change-future-global-conflict-nationalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Climate change is poised to alter the face of global conflict.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How David Koch Changed the World]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/154836/david-koch-changed-world</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few humans hold more responsibility for the unfolding climate crisis than David Koch, the 79-year-old oil magnate who died this week.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Deniers Are the Hysterical Alarmists]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/154014/climate-deniers-hysterical-alarmists</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They, not climate scientists or activists, are stoking fear with exaggerated rhetoric and outright lies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats Stole the Green Party's Best Idea]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/153127/democrats-stole-green-partys-best-idea</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Green New Deal used to be the eco-socialist party's signature proposal. Now the Greens, without Jill Stein, are trying to find their voice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Have Democrats Reached a Tipping Point on Climate Change?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/152599/democrats-hit-tipping-point-climate-change</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As activists storm Capitol Hill, the issue is rising in importance within the party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Politicizing Hurricanes]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/151526/defense-politicizing-hurricane-michael-florida</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nothing wrong with tying unfolding tragedies to climate change.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Solve Climate Change, Modern Automobiles Must Die]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/150689/modern-automobile-must-die</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If we want to solve climate change, there's no other option.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The EPA Is Acting Like Big Tobacco]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/148126/epa-acting-like-big-tobacco</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Administrator Scott Pruitt's new policy will quash research showing that pollution is bad for your health.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Undoing American Climate Diplomacy]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147799/undoing-american-climate-diplomacy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo, as a Kansas congressman from 2011 to 2017, was one of the largest recipients of oil and gas money in the House of Representatives. He voted against'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' amendments'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to bills that declared that climate change was real and caused by humans; railed against international climate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Has Scott Pruitt's Back]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147851/trump-scott-pruitts-back</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week was a rough one for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, and this week isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t looking any better. On Monday,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Atlantic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' uncovered evidence that Pruitt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' personally approved huge raises'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for his political staffers in direct defiance of White...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Have Republicans Won Their War on Science?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147729/war-science-over-republicans-won</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The so-called'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' war on science'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t quite as broad as that phrase implies. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s really a war on one particular scientific fact: that fossil fuels are a threat to public health.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Conservative Coddling of Scott Pruitt]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147681/conservative-coddling-scott-pruitt</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has found a safe space to talk about his expensive first-class travel habit: conservative talk radio. On Wednesday,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' pointed out a few interviews'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the EPA chief has given recently. It turns out, Pruitt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Parkland Blueprint for Climate Change Activism]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147301/parkland-blueprint-climate-activism</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The National Rifle Association isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t invincible after all. The powerful gun lobby has lost lucrative business partnerships with dozens of companies since the Valentine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Under the heat of public...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Can't Kill Renewable Energy]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147083/trump-cant-kill-renewable-energy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rural America's Drinking-Water Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/147011/rural-americas-drinking-water-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Weather Is Not Normal. And It Will Only Get Worse.]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144714/weather-not-normal-will-get-worse</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The days leading up to Hurricane Harvey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s landfall in Texas last week were some of the most nerve-wracking in meteorological history. Forecasters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' watched'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' helplessly as a true monster storm'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'one that would eventually become the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' most extreme rain event'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in recorded American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al Gore's Carbon Footprint Doesn't Matter]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144199/al-gores-carbon-footprint-doesnt-matter</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Al Gore is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' back in the spotlight'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with his new documentary,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' An Inconvenient Sequel,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' making him a top target again of the right-wing counter-intel complex.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' On Thursday, the conservative National Center for Public Policy Research released a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' report,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Al Gore'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Never Been Harder to Be a Climate Scientist]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144056/its-never-harder-climate-scientist</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One month before President Donald Trump was sworn into office, the climate scientist Michael Mann wrote'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' an op-ed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about the time someone sent a letter filled with fake anthrax to his office. The August 2010 scare, he recalled, was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'just one in a long...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End Goal of Trump's War on Science]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/143652/end-goal-trumps-war-science</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Climate-change deniers go to great lengths to convince the public that there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a legitimate scientific debate about whether humans are the main cause of global warming, but the Trump administration took this pathology to another level last week: Scott Pruitt, the head of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is Scott Pruitt Hiding?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142785/scott-pruitt-hiding</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be hard today to find out what Gina McCarthy was doing on any given workweek from 2013 to 2016. The former Environmental Protection Agency administrator'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s daily schedule is still posted on the department'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s website, listing all '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'meetings attended by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's EPA Is Set to Break a Major Promise]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142813/trumps-epa-set-break-major-promise</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Right now in America, there are more than 1,300 large swaths of land and water where toxic stews of chemicals like asbestos, mercury, PCBs, and arsenic linger, threatening the health of tens of thousands of humans. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re called Superfund sites, some of the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debate Moderators Conduct a Total Trainwreck]]></title>
							<link>http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/28/3717186/cnbc-debate-moderators-yelling/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Emily Atkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reporters from both conservative and liberal-minded news organizations seem to agree: the CNBC Republican presidential debate was kind of a trainwreck.That wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t really because of the candidates, though '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it was because of the moderators. For the first hour, CNBC moderators...]]></description>
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