Christian Science Monitor: US environmentalists, assessing the Republican tsunami that washed over the country, chose Wednesday to tout a key Election Day victory in beating back California’s Proposition 23, a ballot initiative that would have reversed clean-energy requirements statewide – and led quite possibly to similar initiatives in other states. It was a sign, they said, that voters were not rejecting clean energy or the environment, but were responding to concerns about jobs and housing. “In the one race where the…