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Chamber Backs off "Scopes" Comment
(www.motherjones.com)
A few days after I made fun of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for saying it wants a hearing on climate change that would be "the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st Century," the group has backed off the... More
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Australia admits new LNG plant is ‘greenhouse intensive’
(www.grist.org)
Australia has admitted a huge new energy project to supply Asian markets could raise national greenhouse-gas emissions by up to one percent if ambitious efforts to capture them fail. Environment... More
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Recession helps cut E.U. greenhouse-gas emissions
(www.grist.org)
BRUSSELS - Greenhouse-gas emissions in the European Union fell for the fourth year running in 2008, thanks to the economic recession, the European Environment Agency said Monday. The official EEA... More
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Adding up the impact of cash for clunkers
(michiganmessenger.com)
The cash for clunkers program resulted in approximately 700,000 older, less fuel efficient cars being traded in for newer, more environmentally friendly vehicles. And the Detroit Free Press reports... More
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ExxonMobil: "Green Company of the Year?"
(www.motherjones.com)
Editors know that counterintuitive headlines sell magazines. They also know that making wildly exaggerated claims can damage their credibility. Writing a headline is often a balancing act between... More
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Group Files Suit Over PA Gas Drilling Permits for Marcellus Shale
(www.publicnewsservice.org)
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Environmentalists are challenging the way Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection is handing out permits for companies to drill for natural gas in the massive Marcellus... More
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Chuck Grassley does not believe in the threat of anthropogenic climate change
(www.grist.org)
In a Tuesday conference call with Iowa agricultural reporters, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered some state-of-the-art Republican doubletalk on climate change (maybe he read it in Glenn Beck’s... More
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Surprise at the Wyoming Range Legacy Act Celebration
(www.publicnewsservice.org)
LANDER, Wyo. - A celebration of the Wyoming Range Legacy Act has turned into a bigger party than planned, with announcement by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management that oil and gas leases on about... More
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China secures gas from Burmese waters in $5.6bn deal (business.timesonline.co.uk)
China is to boost its economic ties to the Burmese military Government with a $5.6 billion (£3.4 billion) gas project in the Bay of Bengal, to be built by a South Korean and Indian consortium. The... More
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GM: Innovators or crackheads?
(www.grist.org)
At one of our news meetings last week, I mentioned a story I had seen. “GM says the Chevy Volt will get 230 miles per gallon,” I told my fellow editors. The number struck me funny because it was... More
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