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How do you create the conservationists of tomorrow? Get kids outside.
A new initiative seeks to improve outdoor access for underrepresented youth.
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The climate policy milestone that was buried in the 2020 budget
This is the first time the government has funded research into schemes to engineer the climate.
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“Resistance as daily existence”: One woman’s story as a climate scientist under Trump
How fearful text messages morphed into activism.
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Knight Foundation gives cities $5M for floating farms and fuzzy hats
The Knight Foundation just wrote $5 million in checks to support all manner of urban awesomeness.
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Stopping the next great extinction could cost just $11.42 per person per year
This is according to a new study in Science, which estimates that it would cost $80 billion per year to stop extinction.
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Cleantech spending drops 75 percent in five years
A new paper from Brookings, the World Resources Institute, and the Breakthrough Institute shows exactly how much trouble cleantech is in: Depressing, no? Some of that rapid decline comes from the end of stimulus spending. But the researchers found that even discounting those funds, federal support for cleantech dropped 47 percent between 2011 and 2012.
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Republicans risk $1 billion in revenue to squash a trickle of funding for biking and walking
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is threatening to hold up the passage of the transportation bill over a tiny portion of its funding, which (of course!) happens to be the portion dedicated to forms of transportation other than cars and highways. Streetsblog explains what's at stake here:
Sen. Coburn, and possibly other members of Congress, are declaring their willingness to throw the entire transportation industry, as well as commuters, under the bus while they quibble about the pennies spent on bike paths. According to the White House, if the bill is delayed just 10 days, the country would lose over $1 billion in transportation funding — “money we can never get back.”
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Critical List: New fuel economy standards; flat screens use less energy
Both options currently on the table for raising the debt ceiling would cut environment and energy spending.
The president will announce new fuel economy standards -- cars and light-duty trucks will need to be at 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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GOP introduces slash-and-burn budget for the environment
The Tea Party bill includes major funding cuts for climate protection and axes protections for air, water, and land.