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Why Colorado thinks it has a chance to make oil companies pay for climate change
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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6 years ago
The most important climate change fights right now are in state courtrooms. Nine cities and counties in Colorado, California, Washington, and New York, as well as the state of Rhode Island ,...
Our natural world is disappearing before our eyes. We have to save it.
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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7 Comments
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6 years ago
The creatures we feared our grandchildren wouldn’t see have vanished: it’s happened faster than even pessimists predicted. Illustration by Nate Kitch I t felt as disorienting as...
This Midwestern Pipeline Approval Just Pissed Off a Lot of People
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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1 Comments
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6 years ago
Shit’s about to go down in Minnesota. The state’s Public Utilities Commission just approved a brand spanking new pipeline, and people are pissed. I’m talking Standing Rock-level of pissed....
Deepwater Horizon led to new protections for US waters. Trump just repealed them.
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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27 Comments
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6 years ago
The Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded on April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers. Gas erupted into a massive fireball, and then the rig gushed 4.9 million barrels of crude oil...
‘Prophetess’ Kat Kerr Took Authority Over A Storm And A Volcano To No Avail
Via: hal-a-lujah
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Environment/Climate
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6 years ago
On Memorial Day, Kat Kerr, a “prophetess” who claims that God brought her up to heaven before the 2016 election and told her that Donald Trump would be elected president, posted a video on her...
Judge orders EPA to disclose any science backing up Pruitt’s climate claims
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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6 Comments
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6 years ago
EPA will have to comply with an information request by July. Gage Skidmore / Flickr In March 2017, Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection...
A Pilot Whale Has Died in Southern Thailand After Swallowing 17 Pounds of Plastic Waste
Via: buzz-of-the-orient
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Environment/Climate
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14 Comments
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6 years ago
A Pilot Whale Has Died in Southern Thailand After Swallowing 17 Pounds of Plastic Waste By Eli Meixler, Time, June 4 2018 © Thailand's Department of Marine and...
This is a Mess: EPA Begins Quest to End California’s Fuel Waiver
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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3 Comments
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6 years ago
The Trump administration has enacted phase two of its plan to revise Obama-era rules designed to cut pollution from vehicle emissions. In a proposal sent to the White House Office of...
She Tried To Report On Climate Change. Sinclair Told Her To Be More "Balanced."
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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10 Comments
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6 years ago
For three years, Suri Crowe worked for a TV station owned by Sinclair. She clashed with management — including over stories about climate change and guns. Sinclair Broadcast Group executives...
The Sorcerers' Apprentices ... ... by Bob Nelson
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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3 Comments
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6 years ago
I'm an "amateur"... in lots of things: sciences (just about all of them) history, religion, art, ... According to Webster, an amateur is: 1 : one who engages in a pursuit, study, science, or...
What happened to winter? Vanishing ice convulses Alaskans' way of life
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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53 Comments
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6 years ago
Arctic Dispatches, part 1: The past winter was the warmest on record in the Arctic, putting a lifestyle that has endured for millennia at risk: ‘The magnitude of change is utterly...
'Amazing but also concerning': weird wildlife ventures to northern Alaska
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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7 Comments
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6 years ago
Arctic Dispatches, part 2: As the Arctic heats up, residents of Utqiaġvik are experiencing first contact with unusual species that are making their way polewards Last July, Nagruk...
Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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22 Comments
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6 years ago
The world’s dinner tables are seeing the impact of climate change. As cold regions become warmer, and warm places hotter still, farming and fishing are shifting. An evolving climate means big...
Now Scott Pruitt Thinks Climate Change Could Be Good
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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1 Comments
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6 years ago
On the heels of revelations that he called President Donald Trump an “empty vessel” in 2016, EPA Chief Scott Pruitt is now thinking this whole global warming thing might not be so bad after all....
Trapped on an Island With Wolves, the Only Way Out for These Caribou Was Up
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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3 Comments
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6 years ago
Early on Saturday, amid blowing snow and temperatures at minus 13 Fahrenheit, three caribou were blindfolded, earplugged and bundled into a helicopter on an island in Lake Superior. The...
One year in, Trump's environmental agenda is already taking a measurable toll
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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6 years ago
A massive coal ash spill near Knoxville, Tenn., in 2008 forever changed life for Janie Clark’s family and left her husband with crippling health problems. So Clark was astounded late last year...
Most of the members of the National Park Service advisory board just quit en masse
Via: bob-nelson
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Environment/Climate
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19 Comments
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6 years ago
Three-quarters of the members of the National Park System Advisory Board, a group that advises the National Park Service, quit on Monday evening. In a letter informing Interior Secretary Ryan...
Humidity may prove breaking point for some areas as temperatures rise, says study
Via: larry-hampton
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Environment/Climate
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6 Comments
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7 years ago
From US south to China, heat stress could exceed human endurance Climate scientists say that killer heat waves will become increasingly prevalent in many regions as climate warms. However, most...
These are the melting glaciers that might someday drown your city, according to NASA
Via: hal-a-lujah
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Environment/Climate
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4 Comments
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7 years ago
Source New York City has plenty to worry about from sea level rise. But according to a new study by NASA researchers, it should worry specifically about two major glacier systems in...
Trump-released gov't report: Climate change mostly human-caused
Via: pj
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Environment/Climate
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1 Comments
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7 years ago
Trump-released gov't report: Climate change mostly human-caused The Washington Post Christopher Mooney, Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis 52 mins ago The Trump administration released a dire...
