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Court gives green light to EPA carbon pollution standards
Big news: The Supreme Court just gave the green light to implementing the EPA's first carbon pollution standards.
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World Bank President Zoellick on the need for REDD: "We don’t want silent forests"
Robert Zoellick has been pushing hard on a REDD agreement, primarily as a vehicle to fund impoverished programs to preserve biodiversity.
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Failure to ban BPA leading to impotence in U.S. congressmen (probably)
The cafe where nearly 200 members of Congress could get their daily joe is spewing receipts lousy with toxic chemical BPA.
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The FDA finally reveals how many antibiotics factory farms use — and it's a shitload
After years of avoiding the issue, the FDA has finally disclosed exactly how many tons of drugs industrial livestock operations routinely dose their animals with each year.
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Sorry, Glenn, Sarah, and Rush: Food is not a partisan issue — or one just about culture
Tea Party BFFs have all gone on the attack over food, but obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are not partisan issues -- and at least one conservative has stood up and said so. And while everyone likes to blame "culture," we've changed our unhealthy habits before, and we can do it again.
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Clean energy grants extended for a year; still a dumb way to do things
It looks like a one-year extension of the renewable-energy grant program has made it into the tax bill now brewing in Congress. It's much, much better than the alternative, but it's also no way to run a country.
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The Climate Post: Some progress in Cancun climate talks, but mostly a morass of competing interests
Cancun climate talks negotiators got down to brass tacks. There were comic relief moments, like the removal of climate skeptic Christopher Monckton from a luncheon
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WikiLeaks: U.S. turned the pope into its enforcer on Copenhagen climate talks
WikiLeaks today published a cable indicating Pope Benedict XVI has been pulling strings on behalf of the U.S. And he might get an electric popemobile.
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New report shows dirty coal doing even more damage than you thought
A new study shows EPA has been undercounting the externalities imposed by ozone pollution, and thus understating net benefits of its new ozone rules.
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Regional cap-and-trade advances
Everyone is disappointed about climate policy prospects. I can't say that I'm thrilled, but we should take heart at what's happening on the state level
