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• Some airborne particles pose more dangers than others

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Mort Lippmann noticed a strange phenomenon in his laboratory mice. For 14 straight days, their hearts were racing. [More]
  6 hours ago

• GOP Senator Rearms to Stop Global Warming Solutions

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 468
  Photo by AP For the second time in 3 months, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is trying to block solutions to global warming . In September, she attempted to tack an amendment onto an appropriations bill that would have kept the Environmental Protection Agency from spending any money on reducing global ...
  7 hours ago

• Setting the record straight on wilderness

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 541
  America needs wilderness to preserve its soul, not to mention its water, air and wildlife.
  8 hours ago

• Todays Report From Copenhagen

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 468
  (Editors Note: This file presents news and information from the Copenhagen climate change conference on Dec. 17, distilled from news outlet reports. Check for updates during the day.) : Money appears to be thawing the stalled climate change negotiations. China, in response to Hillary Clintons promise (see ...
  11 hours ago

• Coal-fired Congress Blocks Path to Clean Energy

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 468
  A coal-fired power plant. Becoming a grandfather is cause for celebration, unless youre a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants that predate the Clean Air Act have become the mules of air pollution—set in their ways and not liable to change. Exploiting their "grandfathered" status, these coal ...
  1 day ago

• 7 Ways to Green Your Holiday Season

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 519
  The season of excess is here again. Between cookies, gifts, cards and travel, the holidays often mean a bit too much of a good thing. For many of us, that can lead to the post-holiday slump. We’ve eaten too much, sat in the car too long, have more knickknacks and ill-fitting clothes to shove in our closets … and ...
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• Surprise! CEI Plans to Sue the EPA over the Endangerment Finding

  
  Warming Law — Authority: 451
  Predictably, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has announced its intention to sue the EPA in federal court, seeking  to overturn the agency’s recent endangerment finding for CO 2 “on the grounds that EPA has ignored major scientific issues, including those raised recently in the Climategate fraud ...
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• Portable Motorless Solar Air Purifier

  
  EnviroGadget.com — Authority: 536
  The Solar Air Purifier is an easy to use portable device that cleans the air giving you a healthy, odor neutralised environment. By simply placing it near any window the Solar Air Purifier will clean the air silently using its high-efficiency photo-catalysis and active carbon filter to scrub the air of any smoke and ...
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• Subcontinental Smut: Is Soot the Culprit Behind Melting Himalayan Glaciers?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  SAN FRANCISCO--The Himalaya Mountain region is warming up three to five times faster than the global trends--or about half a degree Celsius per decade--and many of its glaciers are rapidly losing mass. Greenhouse gases alone cannot explain this warming, however, and several new studies are pointing to an old form of ...
  2 days ago

• Nanotech Group Targets Energy Security

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Lockheed Martin Corp. is joining forces with a new trade association to promote the commercialization of innovative clean-energy technologies. The NanoAssociation for Natural Resources and Energy Security (NANRES), which launched yesterday, plans to work on developing and commercializing nano-projects that focus ...
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• Center for Biological Diversity: Murkowski Seeks to Thwart Efforts to Curb Carbon Pollution

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 632
  The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following statement today from Executive Director Kierán Suckling in response to Senator Lisa Murkowki’s attempt to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. “It is a sad day when a United States ...
  2 days ago

• December 14, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  December 14, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber. For the next two weeks, I have added a special section on the Copenhagen Climate Talks.  If ...
  3 days ago

• How the US Could Get Climate Safety at Copenhagen Even Without 67 Votes

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 611
  Could President Obama do an end run round the very high bar of persuading 67 Senators (only 60 of whom are Democrats) to ratify a Copenhagen agreement? The Constitutional requirement to “make Treaties” only with the “Advice and Consent” only when “two thirds of the Senators present concur, ” is a ...
  4 days ago

• John Flaherty Writes: Let Me Know If You Would Like To Add Your Name To This Letter Urging A Clean Up Of Old Coal Powerplants

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 441
  From the inbox ~ December 2009 Dear Senator: Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has asked senators to join him in a letter urging Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to ensure that the Senate clean energy and climate bill does not repeal the sections of the Clean Air Act that require coal-fired power plants to meet ...
  4 days ago

• Rarefied Air

  
  Writerquake — Authority: 124
  Timelapse movie: The Alps -- part II (night) from Michael Rissi on Vimeo . A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery When was the last time you clearly saw the Milky Way? Top Ten Facts about Milky Way Galaxy   Milky Way graphic via ...
  5 days ago

• What If Energy From Un-Mined Coal Could Be Tapped While Reducing the CO2 75%?

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 611
  Their global disinformation campaigns designed to keep world populations ignorant about the danger of climate change have not endeared the fossil industry to the rest of us. The refusal to deal with the facts about the danger to humanity that global warming poses makes it easy to also dismiss their lies about ...
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• Interior Secretary Outlines How to Use North American Continent to Combat Climate Change

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  COPENHAGEN--U.S. forests and soils store some 90 billion metric tons of carbon, or 50 years worth of present U.S. emissions from fossil fuels , according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey. As negotiators here at the United Nations climate summit continue to struggle to draft a global agreement to cut ...
  6 days ago

• What Does EPA’s Finding that Greenhouse Gas Emissions Endanger Public Health and the Environment Mean to Business?

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued its final finding that emission of six greenhouse gases endangered the public’s health and the environment because of their effect on climate change, the business community wondered how it should respond to the news.  At first glance, there seems to be blinding ...
  6 days ago

• Searching for the Best Way to Go Green When Traveling

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Dear EarthTalk: I’m a travel agent and our firm has several clients wanting to go with green vendors, including for travel (airline or rental car) and lodging. Our company is supportive so would like to know which airlines, hotels and car rental agencies are going affordably green? --Carol Biggar, via e-mail ...
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• EPA Greenhouse Gas Ruling Could Lead To Stricter Emissions Standards

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 543
  EPA Chief says the agency has been fighting to make up for lost time on its climate change policies. A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruling that greenhouse gases pose a public health threat has set the stage for new emission regulations while setting off a battle in Congress and howls of protest from ...
  6 days ago

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