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• Mosquito repellents without DEET show promise. • China gets ready to ban plastic bags. • Rising seas could swamp Eastern Shore. • OfficeMax and TerraCycle team up. • Americans […]
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Direct and indirect ways of killing people
“We’re just damn glad to live in a free country where you can have a gun if you want to.” — Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, […]
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Friday music blogging: Fleet Foxes
The headline from The Stranger‘s feature story on Fleet Foxes tells the story: Fleet Foxes Are Not Hippies Don’t Let the Floppy Hats, Jesus Beards, and Five-Part Vocal Harmonies About […]
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Snippets from the news
• Super-acidic ocean water found near coasts. • Sunscreen threatens coral. • U.S. and Canada make deal on salmon. • Germany bans pesticides after honeybee deaths. • Disney recalls sleeping […]
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Snippets from the news
• Italy will embrace nuclear power, reversing a 20-year ban. • Pressure grows on Exxon from shareholders. • Amazon deforestation on the rise. • Hewlett-Packard kicks off environmental initiative. • […]
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House passes clean-energy tax credits, bill out of Senate committee would give Calif. waiver
Exciting things going on at the Capitol: The House has passed a bill with tax credits for renewable energy; the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed legislation asking President […]
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Why the Everglades is burning, and how we sucked it dry
It’s hard to believe, now that it’s been overrun by 7 million residents and 7 jillion strip malls, but southern Florida was once America’s last frontier. As late as 1880, […]
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Snippets from the news
• Kansas lawmakers won’t try to override coal-plant veto. • Hydrogen-powered phone on the horizon. • U.S. military pushing for alternative fuels. • The Queen invests in the world’s largest […]
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Snippets from the news
• Competing forest studies spar over CO2. • Chemical-safety bill introduced in House. • Big investors call on Congress to tackle climate change. • Fisheries Service considers Makah whaling request. […]
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Evidence that White House influenced EPA to deny California waiver
The White House influenced U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to deny California the waiver it needed to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions, according to evidence presented by the House Committee on […]
