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Rahm Emanuel: First Obama priority is stimulus via green infrastructure
Incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, speaking to a gathering of CEOs and other business leaders: Mr. Emanuel promised that a major economic stimulus would be "the first order of […]
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Farming bluefins not an answer to overfishing
News of the latest negotiations on how many bluefin tuna the world can afford to kill without extinctionating the species (yes, it’s a word … to me) is yet to […]
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Mountain gorillas threatened by violence in Congo
Due to escalating violence, Congolese rangers have been run out of the country’s Virunga National Park, threatening the safety of some 200 mountain gorillas that live there. “There are documented […]
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President-elect sends YouTube message to governors
President-elect Barack Obama released a video message to attendees of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s summit on climate change, which is convening today in Los Angeles. Obama’s video is below. More […]
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Concerns raised about wildfire-fighting chemicals
As wildfires rage in southern California, concerns are burgeoning about the chemical mix that firefolk drop as a fire retardant. It’s “fairly well known that it’s toxic to aquatic organisms, […]
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Newsweek considers an Obama baby boom
Newsweek gets the headline of the week award as it ponders the possibility of an post-election baby boom: Hope and euphoria, says University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz, are a […]
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Gulf War syndrome exists, says scientific panel
Gulf War syndrome, an umbrella term for a batch of neurological disorders experienced by nearly a quarter of the 700,000 veterans of the 1991 war, is attributable to “neurotoxic exposures,” […]
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NASA against offshore drilling
“It just makes it more difficult to fly. For safety reasons, we don’t want to be flying rockets anywhere near these things.” — Keith Koehler, public affairs specialist for the […]
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We should be wary of jumping on the ‘individual fishing quota’ bandwagon
I’m not sure what the marine equivalent of a bandwagon is (a love boat?), but there’s one headed our way. I’m talking about the movement called “individual fishing quotas,” as […]
