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• Influential Australian economist urges decisive action on climate change. • Climate-change report urges reducing food consumption, particularly meat. • U.S. Chamber of Commerce details energy blueprint. • Feds propose […]
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Everglades restoration going slowly, poorly, federal report says
The roughly $10 billion restoration of the Everglades is “making scant progress toward achieving its goals” due to built-in bureaucracy, funding troubles, and more, according to a report from the […]
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Judge puts Great Lakes wolves back on endangered-species list
The Bush administration misread the law when it removed endangered-species protections from a population of some 4,000 gray wolves in the Great Lakes region, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. […]
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• Obama-sponsored bill heading to Bush would ban U.S. mercury exports. • Is your kosher diet eco-friendly? • RGGI auction brings in $38.5 million. • Experts say we’re losing the […]
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Beijing extends traffic-control measures to keep smog away
Beijing enjoyed its best air quality in a decade during the Olympic Games, thanks in part to strict traffic-control measures. Pleased by their success, city officials have unveiled ongoing modified […]
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• California will host international climate meeting. • General Motors will build Chevy Volt plant in Flint, Mich. • President Bush again says he wants to protect marine areas. • […]
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An alternative bailout proposal
Jerome a Paris suggests a different bailout idea: a National Investment Bank that would focus on helping people rather than banks. It would serve the following functions: • allow bankrupt […]
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Gas shortages plague the Southeast
Gas lines snake through parking lots, independent gas retailers ration supplies, and fights break-out at gasoline-starved filling stations across the Southeast … Gas shortages throughout the Southeast continue after several […]
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Snippets from the news
• Global carbon-dioxide emissions rising rapidly. • Cities produce less than two-fifths of greenhouse-gas emissions, says study. • In 2002, EPA prepared to declare public-health emergency over asbestos contamination — […]
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E.U. will no longer export mercury
Hold on to your thermometers: The European Union will ban exports of mercury as of March 2011. The 27-nation bloc stopped mining mercury in 2001, but its exports of the […]
