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From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, a weekly digest on energy, clean tech, and the environment.

I'm Stephen Lacy.

This week the political left is in the midst of a civil war over how to tackle climate change.

In just three weeks, Washington state voters have the chance to pass the most ambitious carbon tax ever proposed in this country.

But there's one problem. Virtually every major green group is against it or afraid to support it.

So what is going on? David Roberts of Vox is with us to explain.

Then the hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign, they also show why tensions run high on the national level between the environmental left and

centrist like Clinton.

And finally we'll get away from disagreements and turn to a landmark agreement

from last weekend, a global treaty to slash HFCs. It's another win for diplomacy and the Obama administration,

but we can't resist bringing politics back into it. Will a Republican Senate fail to ratify the treaty?

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