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Virginia politician’s job isn’t to worry about Virginia’s future environment
"I can't ban something because of something that might happen 500 or 1,000 years from now," says dummy.
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Who will serve on Obama’s second-term green team?
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire could head up EPA. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa could become transportation secretary. Who else? Find out.
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New food-safety rules are not making us feel all that nauseated
Both food-safety advocates and the food industry seem to like the rules aimed at preventing food-borne illness. Too bad they're so slow in coming.
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Could Chuck Hagel, defense secretary nominee, turn out to be a climate hawk?
Hagel has long been confused about climate change ... and yet concerned about it too, particularly as a national security issue.
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Obama vs. physics: Why climate change won’t wait for the president
Climate change is not a fight, like abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. It's a fight between human beings and physics.
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League of Women Voters ad asks Obama for climate action
Here's hoping the president reads the newspaper while on vacation.
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W.Va. congressmember compares EPA head to Gadhafi
Rep. David McKinley doesn't much like EPA chief Lisa Jackson. We have a theory why.
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Congress to act on Sandy aid — but grudgingly, late, and with a fraction of what’s needed
Had Congress acted responsibly years ago on FEMA flood insurance, Congress might not even need to act today.
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Congress extends farm bill, still manages to screw sustainable farmers
When Congress passed a nine-month farm bill extension as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, it disappointed sustainable food advocates around the country.
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Cash for Clunkers program drove right into a brick wall of waste
The program took 690,000 old cars off the roads -- and sent them to landfills instead of to auto-parts recyclers.
