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Superrich Behind California's 'Grassroots' Green Movement
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11 years ago
C alifornians have long had the reputation of being more concerned about environmental issues than Americans in general. But for years that interest expressed itself in modest ideas about...
A state-by-state guide of the best natural wonders in America
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11 years ago
1. Alabama Cathedral Cavern State ParkDeclared a National Natural Landmark in 1972, these incredible caves were opened as a state park in 2000. The 126-foot-wide by 25-foot-high entrance to the...
Texas Passes Ban on Fracking Bans (Yes, You Read that Right)
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11 years ago
Texas Passes Ban on Fracking Bans (Yes, You Read that Right) Cole Mellino|May 5, 2015 10:04 am| The Texasstate legislature voted yesterdayto banfrackingbans. Ever since the peopleof...
20-Year-Old Thinks He Can Clean Gobs of Ocean Plastic
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11 years ago
It started with a question: "I wondered, 'Why cant we clean this up?'" Only rather than the dinner dishes or scattered toys, "this" was referring to the world's oceans and the vast...
Climate Change, That Ol' Scheme To Bleed The Rich
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11 years ago
nyone who has doubted that the global warming scare was cooked up to shake down advanced economies should read this story in the Guardian about the need to send money "to poor countries to help...
EPA Buries Its Own Good News About Fracking
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11 years ago
View Enlarged ImageWant to see a perfect example of spin as a Washington art form? Read the results of the federal government's most in-depth investigation ever of fracking. As Institute for Energy...
Climate Change: Where is the Science?
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11 years ago
Is it twice as likely that the Earth is cooling than that it is warming? That humans and fossil fuels have nothing, or everything to do with it, or somewhere in between? Or is it over 99% certain...
California gardeners say their industry is drying up because of ongoing drought
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11 years ago
California gardeners say their industry is drying up because of ongoing drought California drought crippling gardening jobs Homeowners in California are ripping out their once...
Man Dies After Contracting Rare Bacteria While Swimming in Gulf Coast Beach in Florida
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11 years ago
By AVIANNE TAN 20 hours ago Good Morning America A 26-year-old man recently died after contracting a rare, deadly bacterial infection while swimming in the Gulf of...
EPA Gets Another Much-Needed Smackdown From The Courts
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11 years ago
Environment: The rogue agency known as EPA has been slapped back by the Supreme Court for failing to consider the cost of a massive new regulation. What else is new?The latest case involves an EPA...
Key ice-handling vessel for Shell's Arctic drilling program damaged, returns to port
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11 years ago
MSV Fennica In another hurdle for Royal Dutch Shells Arctic drilling program, an ice-handling vessel playing a key role in the operation has returned to Dutch Harbor after a gash was...
Earth heading for 'mini ice age' in just 15 years, scientists say
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11 years ago
LINK : http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/07/11/Earth-heading-for-mini-ice-age-in-just-15-years-scientists-say/2751436649025/ By Doug G. Ware | Updated July 11, 2015 at 5:36 PM...
Royal Dutch Shell’s MV Fennica to return to the West Coast for repairs
Via: larry-crehore
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11 years ago
The hull of the Fennica suffered a gash in the hull about 3 feet long and a half-inch wide when the vessel struck an uncharted object while leaving Dutch Harbor. The area had not been...
While you enjoy the outdoors "Beware the Giant Hogweed"
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11 years ago
According to the DEC, the toxic plant grows in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. This weed will cause...
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist: Obama is ‘Dead Wrong’ on Global Warming
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11 years ago
(CNSNews.com) -- President Obamas statements on global warming are dead wrong, said Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever, who rejected the president's claims that man-made global warming is causing climate...
Editor of Science Magazine Should Resign!
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11 years ago
The 3 July 2015 issue of Science features a remarkable editorial by Editor Marcia McNutt. Titled The beyond-two-degree inferno, it suggests that an anthropogenic greenhouse (GH) warming of more...
The dirty business of Obama’s so-called Clean Power Plan
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11 years ago
President Obama's carbon mandates finalized on Monday are nothing more than a smokescreen for bureaucratic actions that will not withstand judicial scrutiny, which has become common place for...
World Falls In Love With Coal That Obama Is Waging War On
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11 years ago
View Enlarged ImageAt the very moment President Obama has decided to shutter America's coal industry in favor of much more expensive and less efficient "renewable energy," coal use is surging...
NY Fracking Ban Is Literally Impoverishing Rural Towns
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Environment/Climate
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11 years ago
New Yorks ban on hydraulic fracturing is great news for environmentalists, but horrible news for those living upstate who are seeing their economic opportunities fade as the state government closes...
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