Jon Tester, Senator from Montana

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Tuesday December 21, 2010 · 11:21 AM PST

2010/12/21 · 11:21

Jon Tester voted against the DREAM Act this past weekend, a sorry and inexplicable vote. He's hearing from his base about this right now, and from many progressive voices around the country like me.

I'm writing this diary to try to put this vote in perspective. I write as a Montanan, as a liberal Democrat, as a person who worked hard on his campaign, and as a strong supporter of many of the things Tester has done since he was elected in 2006, and an outspoken critic of his votes I disagreed with.

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Tuesday November 16, 2010 · 3:27 PM PST

2010/11/16 · 15:27

The Washington Post had an opinion piece this past weekend that caught my eye. It's about how we can work to reduce CO2 emissions regardless of our acceptance, or lack thereof, of climate change science: "How to stop global warming - even if you don't believe in it".

(h/t to boatsie, whose diary about COP16 included this link. Please visit their diary and recommend.)

This led to me to start blogging about something I've been meaning to for a some time...That is, the efforts happening right now, everywhere, outside the Beltway, to get a handle on GHG's. We'll do it, fer cryin' out loud, even if you won't help us, Senators!

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Wednesday October 20, 2010 · 11:41 AM PDT

2010/10/20 · 11:41

Think Progress gave us a heads-up today on an important report released by the NAACP and the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights [IREHR] about Tea Party connections with white supremacist, militia, and anti-immigration groups. (See the story in the Kansas City Star.) "Tea Party Nationalism: A Critical Examination of the Tea Party Movement and the Size, Scope, and Focus of Its National Factions," by Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart of IREHR, is based on extensive research of

government documents and databases, including court cases, campaign finance reports and corporate filings.

"This is the first data-driven report of this type on the tea parties," Burghart said. "Understanding their membership structures was the crucial first step that enabled us to understand the complexity of the tea party movement and to be able to specify the role of racists and bigots in the movement."

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Wednesday October 06, 2010 · 7:55 PM PDT

2010/10/06 · 19:55

Time once again to get on the phone and GOTV. Absentee ballots were mailed in Montana on Monday, so time is of the essence, as they say, to do a little plugging for our candidates.

Tonight I had the pleasure of supporting Wayne Stanford, Democratic candidate for HD90 in northern Ravalli County.

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Tuesday September 07, 2010 · 1:08 PM PDT

2010/09/07 · 13:08

Subhankar Banerjee has a post up on Huffington Post in support of Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign in California. (See Dante Atkins' front page story about her debate with Carly Fiorina last week.)
Banerjee's post is a good one, but the best part was sending us to his new website.

After the U.S. Senate killed the climate bill in late July, many of us were disappointed (but not surprised). We pointed our fingers to what went wrong and why our climate movement failed, but then we got to work to figure out how to move forward. Just a few days ago I founded ClimateStoryTellers.org that you can check out.

What a gifted writer! And what a story he has brought together about our dying forests, both here in North America and around the world.

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Sunday September 05, 2010 · 3:16 PM PDT

2010/09/05 · 15:16

What happened to climate change and clean energy legislation in the U.S. Senate last month? Why did legislation disappear that would have ensured that Big Oil pays when it screws up? Steve Kretzmann, director of the organization Oil Change International, wondered too:

As Congress begins August recess, those of us who care about America’s addiction to oil, climate change, and a clean energy future have been scratching our heads, wondering why, after historic levels of pressure we can’t even pass an oil spill response bill, not to mention a real clean energy or climate bill.

Cross-posted at 1Sky.

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Saturday July 31, 2010 · 1:27 PM PDT

2010/07/31 · 13:27

We've been warned that the inability of the U.S. Senate to pass the American Power Act (APA), or something (anything) to address greenhouse gas emissions, would have consequences.

But now that it appears that a climate and energy bill will not pass in the near term, the waiting is over for some. For example, wind energy development is likely to face trouble in getting enough investment money to expand. And in the case of coal, it's 'business as usual', at least for mining in Montana.

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Wednesday July 28, 2010 · 12:54 PM PDT

2010/07/28 · 12:54

This morning, the Union of Concerned Scientists hosted another webinar from the National Academy of Sciences presenting the results of their work on climate change. This one addressed 'Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change.'

I posted a diary last week about the first webinar. In it, I provided the background for the studies, and links to the reports that came out of the work.

Today, I will summarize the conclusions of this second report presented in the webinar. You can read a brief summary of it here.

But, first, a personal note.

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My favorite bluegrass instrument is the

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banjo

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mandolin

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fiddle

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stand-up bass

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guitar

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'Advancing the Science of Climate Change'

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Friday July 23, 2010 · 2:45 PM PDT

2010/07/23 · 14:45

Today the Union of Concerned Scientists hosted the first of four webinars presenting the results of The National Academies work on climate change with America's Climate Choices.

If you are interested in participating in any of the other webinars, email sciencenetwork@ucsusa.org and ask for information.

From America's Climate Choices

The Department of Commerce Appropriations Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-161) calls for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to execute an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to establish a committee that will "investigate and study the serious and sweeping issues relating to global climate change and make recommendations regarding what steps must be taken and what strategies must be adopted in response to global climate change, including the science and technology challenges thereof."

Today's webinar summarized the first of the reports.

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Thursday July 08, 2010 · 6:42 PM PDT

2010/07/08 · 18:42

Cross-posted in a slightly different form at 1Sky.org.

Yesterday, a guest blog at 1Sky posted a heart-wrenching story about oil from the BP spill coming ashore at Florida's Gulf Island National Seashore. Sadly, this location is one of 15 special places identified as at-risk of contamination from the BP oil spill,in a report by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Special Places at Risk in the Gulf of Mexico' (in .pdf form that can by accessed at this link), was written in late May to summarize the ecological value of only a few of the many National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, Seashores, and State Wildlife Management Areas at potential risk from the spill that has now been flowing for more than 2 months.

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Bon Secour NWR

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Delta NWR

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Dry Tortugas NP

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Everglades NP

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Lower Suwannee NWR

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Grand Bay NWR

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Gulf Islands National Seashore

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John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park

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Key West NWR

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Padre Island National Seashore

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Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area

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Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge

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St. Marks

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other/all

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President Obama Issues a Call for Action

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Thursday June 17, 2010 · 11:54 AM PDT

2010/06/17 · 11:54

Tuesday night, President Obama gave a prime-time speech to our nation from the Oval Office, an 18-minute outline of the status of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, ‘the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced,‘ and a look forward.

In this diary, I want to examine the 'look forward', the bigger picture that I hope to inspire you to embrace. As Steve Running said, 'Time is running out.'

Cross-posted in a slightly different form at 1Sky and at my blog Natural History Now

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Saturday June 12, 2010 · 6:17 PM PDT

2010/06/12 · 18:17

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