Tagged with History 
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Olympic proportions
Oct 24, 2009 - Not just a global day of action; a historic turning point 6
Posted 1 month ago
If you’re still looking for a good reason to venture out and take part in an International Day of Climate Action event on Saturday, try this on for size: the day of action won't simply be a landmark moment for the global climate movement; it could very well turn out to be a landmark moment in human history. And that's not an exaggeration.
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Wonkeriffic!
An interview with Jason Burnett, who worked on EPA greenhouse gas regulations 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks agoThe following is an interview with Jason Burnett, who worked in the EPA under President GW Bush, wherein we discuss efforts by the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. Burnett quit the EPA in protest in June 2008, alleging interference from the Office of the Vice President.
The interview is meant as a supplement to the story, "Everything you always wanted to know about EPA greenhouse gas regulations, but were afraid to ask."
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earth daze
New film ‘Earth Days’ takes a sometimes devastating look at the history of environmental activism 4
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Robert Stone's new documentary Earth Days chronicles the inspiring rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, and the dispiriting series of missed opportunities that followed.
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The badass birdwatcher
Teddy Roosevelt and the search for new ‘wilderness warriors’ 2
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
"He would have taken his fist and smashed the National Manufacturing Association," Douglas Brinkley, author of a new book on Theodore Roosevelt's conservation legacy, says in an interview.
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U.S. responsible for 29 percent of CO2 emissions over past 150 years, triple China’s share 0
Posted 6 months ago
Since the mid-1800s, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide accounted for 29 percent of the global total. Those 328,000 million metric tons of cumulative emissions are the most of any country and more than three times the amount emitted by China over the same period, according to data from the World Resources Institute.
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