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• Alaskans choose mining over fish. • California moves forward with anti-sprawl bill. • Ozone hole expected to be normal this year. • U.N. climate talks still running into roadblocks. • Walruses still in trouble.
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• Feds’ rush to weaken workplace safety rules hits the federal register. • Exxon will pay 75 percent of damages. • Lawmakers want E.U. to allow more carbon offsetting. • Nuclear reactor deemed national historic landmark. • Pineapple production harms environment in Costa Rica.
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Tigers and elephants applaud expansion of Sumatra park
Sumatra’s Tesso Nilo National Park will be doubled in size in an effort to help out the endangered elephants and tigers that live there. Riau province, which contains the park, houses some 210 elephants (down from 1,250 just a quarter-century ago) and 192 tigers (down from 650 in that same time period). Sixty to 80 […]
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Snippets from the news
• Utility Xcel agrees to disclose its financial risks from climate change. • Suit against ExxonMobil for violence in Indonesia can proceed, judge says. • Habitat for endangered elephants and tigers in Sumatra to be expanded. • Some 40 percent of Australia is largely untouched by industrial civilization, study finds. • Indicted Alaska Sen. Ted […]
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• Summer Arctic sea-ice drops to second lowest level on record. • China’s carbon emissions from power plants to increase by a third this year, report says. • Japan publishes “research” on 4,500 whales it’s killed. • German study finds going veg can cut carbon emissions. • Massive flooding in India incites food riots. • […]
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Bush admin proposes scaling back speed-limit zone meant to protect right whales
On the same day that President Bush moved toward creation of marine sanctuaries in the Pacific, his administration proposed cutting by 10 nautical miles a speed-limit zone in the Atlantic meant to protect critically endangered right whales. The proposal would cut the area covered by the speed zones to 20 nautical miles offshore from the […]
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NYT Magazine probes Obama’s economic thinking
If you read only one article about Barack Obama this week — hell, this campaign season — make it “Obamanomics,” by David Leonhardt, in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Little I’ve read about Obama has provided more insight into the way he thinks, not only about economics, but also about public policy generally. The framing […]
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Clean coal making the early rounds at DNC
8:28 a.m., residential Denver: First sighting of giant, roving “clean coal” van, sponsored by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. Photos to come.
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OMFG
How is this not the worst thing ever? Did the McCain campaign make this?
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Snippets from the news
• Fracture in Greenland glacier concerns scientists. • U.S. Open talks up greenness. • Can veggie oil clean up toxic groundwater? • Ethanol losing its golden reputation. • Is plastic sickening lobsters?
