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Brad Plumer is a reporter at the Washington Post writing about domestic policy, particularly energy and environmental issues.
Four takeaways from State Department’s review of the Keystone XL pipeline
The report found that blocking or approving the Keystone XL pipeline was unlikely to have a “significant” impact on climate change emissions.
The fight in Congress over flood subsidies
The Senate just voted to delay reforms to the flood-insurance program after widespread protests.
The best sentences we read today
“There are about 4 million songs on Spotify — 20 percent of the app’s entire catalogue of music — with zero listens.“
China installed record amounts of solar power in 2013. But coal is still winning.
Last year, China added far more fossil-fuel capacity than it did solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear power combined.
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- Obama is boosting the minimum wage for federal contractors. Here’s how.
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