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• An inside job

  
  California Greening — Authority: 123
  It is very difficult to work on a project, especially a legislative effort, from the outside. Many hours and much more money are required to get enough people to become passionate enough about any issue to indirectly influence that legislation. It is even more difficult when the issue is California Water with a ...
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• EXTREME ACTIVISTS TAKE THE REINS AT EPA, BY: ALEX A. AVERY AND DENNIS T. AVERY

  
  Center for Global Food Issues — Authority: 106
  The Environmental Protection Agency, in a George Orwellian move, has just announced that it has suddenly decided to put the herbicide atrazine through yet another regulatory wringer, despite having just completed a comprehensive, multi-year regulatory review of the safety of atrazine begun in 1994. Only three months ...
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• Building for Success on International Global Warming Cooperation in Copenhagen

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 513
  The last round of global warming negotiations before the Copenhagen meeting begins wrapped up last Friday in Barcelona.  Much of the actual negotiations were focused on getting the negotiating text and the underlying details contained in the text into better shape.  But there were also important discussions for what ...
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• NEPA, Preliminary Injunctions, and Animals

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 464
  David Cassuto A few days ago, I and a few colleagues from Pace and several other American law schools met at Shanghai Jiao Tong  University School of Law with a number of Chinese academics and members of the Chinese Ministry of Environment.  We were there because the Chinese government wanted our input as it ...
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• Clean Energy Could Create 850,000 New Jobs

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 657
        With more than 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs lost since the beginning of this recession in December 2007, a new report says developing a clean energy economy in the United States could create some 850,000 new manufacturing jobs. The report , “Building the Clean Energy Assembly Line: How ...
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• Pet Flea Collar Toxins Harmful to Children

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 156
  Filed under: Dogs , Cats , Small Pets , Pet Health , Grooming Flickr/ Melody.loves.you Could your pets flea collar be harming you or your child? As of September 2010, one toxin currently being used in flea collars will be discontinued, reports the Portland Pet Health Examiner . Carbaryl, which is also known by its ...
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• NRDC: Wind Power - A Global Warming Solution

  
  WIND & SOLAR POWER — Authority: 128
  NRDCflix asked: The NRDC staff scientist Audrey Chang, discusses wind power as part of the solution to global warming. Learn more at www.nrdc.org / globalwarming or www.nrdc.org / energy
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• Important Green Websites to Visit

  
  Green Diva Mom — Authority: 127
  ©iStockphoto.com - Falconiaz There are some really informative, educational and entertaining green websites. Here are some diverse and important green websites you may want to check out. 1. Organic Consumers Association This site has so much information available online or you can request email alerts and you ...
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• F.T.C. Proposes New Light Bulb Label

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  The Federal Trade Commission introduced a proposed new consumer label for light bulbs -- a product category that is generating a lot of confusion.
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• EPA to Set Pollution Rules for Oil- and Coal-Fired Plants

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  We talk a lot about carbon emissions here at TakePart, mostly, I’d think, because they’re the main focus of a lot of efforts to curb climate change. However, carbon isn’t the only dangerous pollutant that gets pumped into the environment, and luckily, the good people at the Environmental Protection Agency ...
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• Bottled Water A $6.5-$7 Billion Industry, Tap 80 Cents To $6.40 Per 1,000 Gallons

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  Jamie Hale-- Much is being made of the benefits of natural water but all water needs to be processed so that we can drink it.” --  Kevin Prior, Water and Wastewater Chemical Scientist I was watching 60 Minutes last night and Andy Rooney came on and began discussing different types of bottled water. He ...
  2 weeks ago

• CBO To Join Heritage Answering Committee’s Questions

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  Several weeks ago we received a letter from Chairman Henry Waxman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee requesting information concerning our economic modeling of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. We quickly responded ( our answers are available here ). Several other organizations and ...
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• Freedom Redefined: When Conscience Meets Commerce

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Salman Rushdie ’s decree from the book Letters to the Six Billionth World Citizen to our little 6 billionth addition is surely the stuff of religious group contention, but its derivations on “freedom” present an irrefutable truth for our future. Freedom, “that space in which contradiction can reign,” has ...
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• Green housing for the poor

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 491
  Lots has been written and said about green skyscrapers (like Bank of America’s $1 billion tower in Manhattan ) and green campus buildings (like this one at Oberlin College ) and even, strange as it sounds, green mansions (like the Atlanta home of Laura Turner Seydel ). But what about green housing for the poor? ...
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• National Parks in Peril from Climate Change

  
  Endangered Spaces blog — Authority: 116
  The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and NRDC identified the 25 national parks most at risk of global warming in the September 2009 report, National Parks in Peril *. Below are some of the most popular, iconic national parks that are in trouble -- NOW. Following that is a complete listing of the parks in ...
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• Sigourney Weaver – Swimming In A Sea Of Acid

  
  Pacebutler Blog — Authority: 112
  Sigourney Weaver’s article at Huffington Post about her latest movie, a documentary called Acid Test, is quite frankly a sobering read. Produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and originally aired on Discovery Planet Green, Acid Test is a groundbreaking documentary focusing on the rapid ...
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• We Knew This Day Would Come [Goracle]

  
  FamousDC — Authority: 594
  This may be a few years late, but according to our tip box: Sunday isn’t just for NASCAR and the NFL anymore.Al Gore is on notice (and don’t wear your green to Heritage on Sunday)The release:Join us for the World Premiere of the film that Al Gore and Hollywood don’t want you to see!…Not Evil [...]Related ...
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• Greenpeace Says Model Forest Protection Project Proves REDD Offsets Dont Work

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 619
  Today, Greenpeace released a new report, Carbon Scam , on the Noel Kempff Climate Action Project (NKCAP) in the forests of Bolivia. NKCAP — funded by American Electric Power, BP-Amoco and Pacificorp, and supported by The Nature Conservancy — is often held up as a success story, but thats not what Greenpeace ...
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• Restoring an Ailing River in California

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  For the first time in 60 years, water will flow through two long stretches of the San Joaquin River, a waterway that has been transformed -- and often run dry -- by engineering and agricultural, industrial and urban development.
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• The Weekly Carboholic: Tipping points will be difficult to identify

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 587
  Tipping points will be difficult to identify U.S. Chamber of Commerce President complains about environmentalists Barrels instead of bottles Ocean acidification to turn parts of the Arctic Ocean corrosive by 2018 El Niño and its relationship to ocean heat content Is the Earth’s climate approaching a ...
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