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• EBay building has a giant solar roof. • Meet the eco-conscious YAWNs: Young and Wealthy but Normal. • Schwarzenegger won’t take crap from the auto industry. • Thieves target restaurant grease. • Rare iguanas found slaughtered. • “Eco-terrorist” sentenced to 20 years in jail.

The number of the beast?

The population of the earth is expected to pass 6,666,666,666 today. (via Slashdot)

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• Wild Sky Wilderness bill becomes law at long last. • Illinois really, really wants FutureGen. • Rancher acquitted of murdering nun in the Amazon. • Don’t buy tar-sands oil, say green groups. • Seattleites urged to stop buying bottled water. • Beijing Olympics will be “basically” carbon neutral, says official.

Greens and developer come to agreement in SoCal

A long-running disagreement over what should be done with the largest swath of privately owned wilderness in southern California has been settled by a deal between green groups and a developer. Ninety percent of the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch will be conserved, while 26,000 homes will be permitted on the remaining 10 percent. The Center for […]

Sea lions actually not assassinated, say officials

Think the twisty tale of the Bonneville Dam sea lions can’t get any twistier? Think again! The six sea lions that were reported to have been assassinated over the weekend were not in fact killed by gunshots, officials now say. The cause of death is still unknown; human involvement has not been ruled out, but […]

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• Kansas Senate tries yet again to get those damn coal plants built. • Northwest sea lions can’t be captured or killed until early 2009. • Climate change comes after koalas. • Canada may have violated Kyoto Protocol rules. • Biking in New York ain’t fun. • Clean the air, kill the Amazon.

Senate Democrats unveil a new energy bill based on the same false premises

Senate Democrats have just proposed a new energy bill: the Consumer-First Energy Act. It is meant as a response to the Republican bill introduced last week, which R’s are currently trying to pass as an amendment to the flood insurance bill. Now, the Republican bill — the Drill, Drill, Drill Bill — would be incredibly […]

Snippets from the news

• Bush administration issues underwhelming salmon plan. • Buy a Chrysler, get $2.99 gas for three years. • Some baby furniture found to have high levels of formaldehyde. • Pepsi will slim down its plastic bottles. • China will “actively join” climate talks with Japan. • Hawaii requires solar water heaters in new homes. • […]

Ouster of Sierra Club’s Florida leaders stirs up a storm of controversy

Things get stormy in Florida. Photo: Ali Nishan It’s got all the signs of a bad breakup: anger, recriminations, and friends taking sides. But this rift doesn’t involve bitter former sweeties; it’s between members of one of the nation’s largest and most influential environmental groups. And it’s happening in a high-profile, wealthy state with complex […]

Deforestation may have increased impact of devastating cyclone

The devastating impact of Cyclone Nargis, which has killed at least 22,000 people in Myanmar, could have been mitigated if mangrove forests had remained intact, says the secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Mangrove forests are densely vegetated and act as natural storm barriers, but many of the forests in Myanmar have been […]