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Dusk to Spawn
California bars salmon fishing in state waters |
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16 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:29 PM on 16 Apr 2008 California Fish and Game officials voted Tuesday to bar commercial salmon fishing in state waters, in what was, according to one commissioner, "one of the most painful votes I think we've ever taken." Fishing in federal waters off the California coast was banned last week. Next month, state officials are likely to bar recreational salmon fishing in Central Valley rivers as well. Californians ... |
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| Topics: California, fishing, news, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Bikini Toll
Beaches strewn with a lot of trash, says report |
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16 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:04 PM on 16 Apr 2008 Six million pounds of trash were picked up in a one-day global beach cleanup last September, according to a new report from the Ocean Conservancy. In one day, beachcombers covering 33,000 miles of shoreline in 76 countries found an average 182 pounds of trash per mile. That was comprised of 7.2 million items of garbage -- food wrappers, bottles, fishing lines, plastic bags, and more. A full one-third of ... |
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| Topics: habitat protection, news, oceans, waste, wildlife (all these topics) |
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State Statement
Governors gather to gab about climate |
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16 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:18 AM on 16 Apr 2008 A group of influential governors will meet this week at Yale University to discuss taking the reins in the fight against climate change. The discussion will center around "blending a set of state efforts, some of which are already up and running, with an emerging federal climate system," according to Dan Esty, the director of Yale's Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Those state efforts includ ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Time Flies When You're Procrastinating
EPA just doesn't have time to make CO2 decision, says official |
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16 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:22 AM on 16 Apr 2008 Remember how the U.S. EPA was instructed by the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether carbon dioxide should be regulated as a pollutant? And how that was more than a year ago? A senior EPA official said in a speech this week that "given the time frame available to the agency, it's not realistic" to expect that the EPA will make that decision before the ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Delta Sigh
American filmmakers arrested in Niger Delta |
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15 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:58 PM on 15 Apr 2008 Four Americans working on the documentary Sweet Crude, about the impact of the petroleum industry on the economy and environment of the Niger Delta, were arrested in Nigeria this weekend and are still being detained. A Nigerian man accompanying them was also seized. Nigeria is Africa's largest oil exporter and the fourth-largest exporter to the United States, and its petroleum industry is infamous for pollut ... |
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| Topics: energy, insanity, movies, news, Nigeria, oil (all these topics) |
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Bisphenol, Eh?
Health Canada primed to declare bisphenol A toxic |
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15 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:43 PM on 15 Apr 2008 Canada's health department is expected to become the first regulatory body ever to declare chemical bisphenol A a toxic substance that humans should reduce their exposure to. BPA shows up in (and leaches from) hard plastic water bottles, aluminum cans, and other containers that consumers regularly eat and drink from. The chemical, which has been linked to reproductive anomalies, has come under some ... |
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| Topics: Canada, food, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Don't Beat Around the Bush
Bush prepares to give climate speech |
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15 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:56 PM on 15 Apr 2008 As suspected, President George W. Bush will spell out a strategy for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions in a speech today. According to a White House official, "He'll set a national economy-wide goal of stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025," but will decline to outline a specific plan. Bush will reportedly also say that he wants to put the brakes on greenhouse-gas emission ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, legislation, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Cries on the Prize
Chevron throws hissy fit that anti-Chevron activists received award |
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15 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:48 AM on 15 Apr 2008 Chevron is throwing a hissy fit over the Goldman Environmental Prize awarded to two Ecuadorian activists who want the oil company to clean up pollution in the Amazon rain forest. Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron in 2001, dumped 18.5 billion gallons of petrochemical waste in the Amazon between 1972 and 1992. Lawyer Pablo Fajardo and community organizer Luis Yanza won the G ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Big Oil, Ecuador, energy, grassroots activism, heroes, litigation, news, oil, rainforests, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Let the Games Breathe In
China announces clean-air proposals for Olympic Games |
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15 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:35 AM on 15 Apr 2008 Many Beijing-area factories and cement plants will close for two months beginning in late July as a key part of the effort to clean the city's famously polluted air for the Olympic Games, Chinese officials said. Other clean-air measures include banning the use of half the city's 3.5 million vehicles, disallowing spray paint and other harsh chemicals to be used outdoors, closing about ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, China, news, sports (all these topics) |
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Room to Grow
Big urban parks sprouting across the U.S. |
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14 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:47 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Four major cities are poised to create urban parks several times bigger than New York's iconic Central Park, itself a not-at-all-shabby 843 acres. In Orange County, Calif., a portion of a former air station will become a 1,347-acre park; in Memphis, a 4,500-acre former prison farm has been snatched from developers by a conservation easement; Atlanta is trying to add enough parkland to attach nearly every nei ... |
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| Topics: green space, New York City, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics) |
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What's Your Hurricane?
Link between climate change and stronger hurricanes becomes fuzzier |
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14 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:24 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Climate change may not in fact make hurricanes more frequent and intense, says new research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. While other climate models have reached similar conclusions, this study is notable for having as its lead author atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel, who was one of the first to suggest a link between warming and stro ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
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When the Blubber Hits the Road
Hunting season ends with Japan catching fewer whales than planned |
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14 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:54 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Japanese whalers had a quota of 850 minke whales for the just-ended hunting season but are heading home having caught only 551, which the country's Fisheries Agency blames on "sabotage by activists." The militant Sea Shepherd Society had been all up in whalers' biz throughout the season. Anti-whalers were quick to point out that hunters admitted to catching ... |
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| Topics: grassroots activism, Japan, news, whaling (all these topics) |
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Here, Have a Grain of Salt
Bush may turn about-face, ask Congress to address climate change |
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14 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:14 AM on 14 Apr 2008 President Bush may soon announce that he wants Congress to pass a climate-change-fightin' bill, and will lay out suggestions for what that should include as early as this week, according to the Washington Times. Republican Congressfolk reportedly are cautioning the administration not to go too crazy. The U.S.-led climate group of major economies meets this week in Paris, ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, George Bush, legislation, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Climate Change We Can Believe In
Clinton, Obama questioned on climate change at religion forum |
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14 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:07 AM on 14 Apr 2008 Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were asked about climate change as part of the Compassion Forum, a gathering focused on eliciting the candidates' views on matters of faith. Asked whether Americans can combat global poverty and climate change without changing their standard of living, Clinton got all "10 things you can do," ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, Hillary Clinton, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Breaking the Bank
World Bank should get out of carbon-offset market, says report |
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11 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:48 PM on 11 Apr 2008 Carbon-offset dealings by the World Bank have been criticized (and not for the first time) in a report released Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies. In the past two years, the report charges, the bank has loaned $1.5 billion to fossil-fuel companies to make minor greenhouse-gas reductions. It then sells carbon credits for those reductions, says coauthor Daphne Wysham, " ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, energy, fossil fuels, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Are You Chicken?
Meat of the future may be grown in a lab |
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11 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:15 PM on 11 Apr 2008 Problem: Large-scale meat production has environmental problems out the wazoo, but Homo sapiens shows much reluctance to giving up meat. Possible solution: Test-tube sausage! The awkwardly named In Vitro Meat Consortium just wrapped up the first-ever international conference focused on the potential for replacing slaughtered animals with grown-in-a-lab chicken nuggets and ground beef. In theory, test-tube ... |
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I Spy Something Green
Security firm spied on green groups, documents show |
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11 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:42 PM on 11 Apr 2008 It wasn't all in your imagination: Private security company Beckett Brown International spied on Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other big environmental organizations in the late 1990s through at least 2000, according to documents obtained by Mother Jones. To produce intelligence reports for PR firms and corporations involved in environmental kerfuffles with green groups, BBI operati ... |
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| Topics: Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, insanity, national security, news (all these topics) |
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Meet the New Rules, Same as the Old Rules
Enviros not fond of new forest management rules |
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11 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:40 AM on 11 Apr 2008 The U.S. Forest Service has released new regulations for forest management that are remarkably similar to regulations that a federal judge struck down last year. Under the new rules, species' sustainability will not be evaluated individually; instead, the focus will be on overall habitat. A coalition of green groups have sued, saying the rules loosen protections for wildlif ... |
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| Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Braking a Catch
Salmon fishing season canceled in California, heavily restricted elsewhere |
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11 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:17 AM on 11 Apr 2008 Photo: Josh Larios For the first time ever, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council has voted to cancel the salmon fishing season off the coast of California and much of Oregon due to exceedingly low populations of chinook salmon in the Sacramento River area. The restrictions apply to commercial as well as recreational fishers; only a catch of 9,000 hatchery-raised coho ... |
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| Topics: fishing, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Not By a LNG Shot
New York governor puts the kibosh on proposed LNG terminal |
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10 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:50 PM on 10 Apr 2008 Newbie New York Governor David Paterson has put the kibosh on a proposal for a liquefied natural gas terminal in Long Island Sound. Paterson and other outspoken opponents say the Broadwater project would damage the sound and be a floating terrorist target. Oil companies TransCanada and Shell, which are pushing the project, point to LNG as a source of clean energy, and say they'll seek o ... |
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| Topics: energy, natural gas, New York, news, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Happy Renew Year!
Senate passes one-year extension of renewable-energy tax credit |
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10 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:17 AM on 10 Apr 2008 The U.S. Senate passed an extension of the renewable-energy production tax credit Thursday as part of a bill intended to address the ailing U.S. housing market. The renewable-energy credit provides a per-kilowatt-hour incentive for the first 10 years a renewable-energy project is in operation -- a credit considered to be a vital driver of clean-energy expansion. The credit is worth ... |
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| Topics: legislation, news, renewable energy, United States (all these topics) |
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How Enterprising
Enterprise Rent-a-Car opens six 'green' branches in Atlanta |
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10 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:26 AM on 10 Apr 2008 The largest car rental company in the United States, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, announced it's opening six "green" branches in Atlanta, Ga., where 60 percent of the available rental vehicles will be hybrids or other fuel-efficient cars. The agency said the increase in efficient vehicles is due to consumer demand. Enterprise currently has a fleet of about 4,000 hybrids out of a tot ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, hybrids, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Diversifying Your Stalk Portfolio
Hunting and fishing groups worried about climate change's effects on wildlife |
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10 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:19 AM on 10 Apr 2008 Photo: iStockphoto The hook and bullet crowd, traditionally quite a conservative bunch, is worrying more openly about climate change, particularly its forecasted effects on wildlife crucial to their sports. The Wildlife Management Institute, a sportsperson's organization, released a report recently highlighting climate change's possible detrimental eff ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, sports, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sworn to Be Wild
House gives thumbs-up to conservation program |
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09 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:36 PM on 09 Apr 2008 Some 27 million acres of federal land in the U.S. West and Alaska would be formally recognized as conservation-worthy under legislation passed Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The National Landscape Conservation System has been in place since 2000 to "conserve, protect, and restore these nationally significant landscapes," and the House legislation would make the program law. The ... |
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| Topics: habitat protection, legislation, news, politics, public lands, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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Is Our Textbooks Misleading?
Student charges that textbook downplays climate change |
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09 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:36 PM on 09 Apr 2008 "[S]cience doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all," says a random climate skeptic the widely used 2005 version of Advanced Placement high school textbook American Government. The text, written by two prominent conservatives, goes on to imply that the cause of climate change is ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, news (all these topics) |
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