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Snippets from the news
• Kansas governor again vetoes a coal plant. • Houston and Los Angeles are the top-polluting cities in the U.S. • Time considers “how to win the war on global warming.” • Formaldehyde exposure is linked to Lou Gehrig’s disease. • Biofuels aren’t evil, says Brazil’s president. • Dogs and cats are found to be […]
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British prime minister chats climate with Bush
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was in Washington, D.C., Thursday to sit down for a chit-chat with President Bush. Brown told press that he and Bush “agreed we must work internationally to secure progress at the G8 and toward a post-Kyoto deal on climate change. … I look forward to continuing to work with President […]
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Judge denies Humane Society injunction, OKs sea-lion trapping
Denying an injunction sought by the Humane Society, a federal judge has given the go-ahead to Oregon and Washington state officials to trap and kill salmon-gobbling sea lions near the Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam. The animal-rights group sued after the National Marine Fisheries Service OK’d sea-lion culling last month. An official hearing on the Humane […]
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Nicholas Stern says climate change worse than he thought
Nicholas Stern, the British economist known for a major report in which he declared that combating climate change would cost less than ignoring it, has announced that he was wrong — about how bad the problem is. “We badly underestimated the degree of damages and the risks of climate change” in the Oct. 2006 report, […]
