Recently, the EPA denied California’s request to regulate the emissions of carbon dioxide in the state and, unsurprisingly, critics are calling that move “politically motivated.” This, time, though, they might actually be able to prove it because EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson (don’t forget the L!) pissed enough EPA staff off that they’re talking to everyone

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Yesterday, McKinsey & Company released a study on how we could reduce our greenhouse gas consumption in this country, which was funded by an unlikely collaboration of corporations and nonprofits. Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council partnered with Honeywell, National Grid, Detroit Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and Shell to fund this study, which kinda found that the biggest reductions could come from individuals reducing their own carbon footprints, and that there aren’t very many incentives to do so.

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