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Global temperatures and the hurricane season [VIDEO]
New numbers released by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center confirm what residents of countries around the world already may have suspected: 2010 has been no average year.
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Week 15: Roasted squash, perfect pears spell summer into fall
The Urbivore got a CSA box full of the tastes of fall, but she has another dilemma. Shying away from factory farm eggs, she's been going for farm-fresh ones. But how does she know these chickens are really "free range"? She decides to find out.
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California's landmark climate law: Job killer or creator?
Proposition 23 proponents claim AB 32 will kill jobs and California should wait until unemployment rates drops to 5.5 percent. Is there truth to that?
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It's official: Jack DeCoster rules the U.S. egg roost
In my Monday post, I couldn't quite establish that "habitual violator" Jack DeCoster controls the largest U.S. egg conglomerate. But new information has emerged that allows DeCoster to be crowned definitively king.
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Enviros step up fundraising to defeat California's Prop 23, oil industry pleas for money
Fundraising by the oil companies trying to kill California's AB 32 was so lackluster it prompted a plea for money from Big Oil.
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Michigan: Outgoing Gov. Jennifer Granholm on creating wind energy jobs
In Michigan, our big, hairy, audacious goal is to make our state the international hub of the clean energy industry, creating jobs by transforming Michigan from rust belt to green belt.
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Efforts to save coal could end up destroying it
Senators from coal states who are trying to protect big coal companies from the impact of global warming pollution reductions may only hasten the decline of big coal.
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Women on bikes take to the streets of New York City [VIDEO]
In this new Streetfilms video, some of New York's freshly minted women bikers explain why traveling on two wheels is so liberating. And so damn fun.
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Drilling moratorium caused minimal job loss, and other green news
A report released by the Obama administration on Thursday said that the Gulf of Mexico drilling moratorium has had little impact on unemployment.
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UPDATED: With the food safety bill dead, time for the FDA/USDA to grow some backbone
Food safety legislation has officially joined climate legislation as a corpse on the Senate floor. Now the onus is on Obama to purge the food-safety agencies of pervasive industry influence.
