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A roundup of news snippets

• Barack Obama may ask Al Gore to be a top climate adviser. • Partisan bickering rages over energy-efficient lighting for the Capitol. • Australia puts its kangaroo-killing plans on hold. • Malaysia scraps a coal plant over environmental concerns. • European greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise.

Oil execs questioned on high oil and gasoline prices

Executives from five huge oil companies were questioned by members of Congress Tuesday amid frustration over high oil and gasoline prices. Big-wigs from BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell did their best to eschew blame for high prices while explaining that they still need billions of dollars in subsidies. They also said increasing […]

Parochial post of the day

My brother-in-law, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew are spreading the local food gospel here in Seattle. Cutely!

A roundup of news snippets

• New York’s congestion-pricing plan moves forward. • Washington’s governor signs into law the nation’s strictest toy-safety standards. • Delaware is given the authority to veto an LNG plant off the New Jersey shore. • Two U.S. utilities file applications to build nuclear reactors. • Proposed rules would make drilling in Colorado easier.

Coal and bottled water — better together!

Unnatural carbonation.

Bush admin finalizes development-friendly wetlands rules

The Bush administration has finalized rules for wetlands development that encourage developers to restore or create new wetlands when old ones are destroyed, sometimes far from the original site. While it sounds innocent enough on its face, opponents of the controversial approach say that natural streams and wetlands are more complex than simply wet places, […]

Gore will run for president as independent, sources tell Grist

[UPDATE: This news item is a joke. Happy April Fools’ Day!] You might want to sit down for this: Al Gore will announce his candidacy for president this week, knowledgeable sources tell Grist. There’s an inconvenient truth for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Gore believes the two Democrats and Republican John McCain aren’t giving climate […]

New campaign plans to relocate polar bears to Antarctica

[UPDATE: This post is a joke, as is the Polar Bear Conservancy website. Happy April Fools’ Day!] While the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dawdles over whether or not to list the polar bear as a federally protected endangered species, a nonprofit group is ready to act to save the fast-disappearing mammal. The Polar Bear […]

A roundup of news snippets

• A U.S. EPA program that evaluates the effect of chemicals on children is basically defunct. • Strip-mined Appalachian mountains are being planted with chestnut trees. • A Montana dam is breached to clean up toxic sediment. • Snorting cocaine is bad for the environment. • Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, and Costa Rica race to […]

Land swap would allow drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge, two huge solar projects slated for Califor

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