In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 1 week ago

Since the first Earth Day 40 years ago -- and despite incredible progress on myriad environmental problems -- America is now faced with a failing...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 1 week ago

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said today that she is putting on hold her effort to block EPA's determination that carbon pollution is a danger to publ...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 1 week ago

Forty years ago this spring, we were a nation divided by war in Vietnam. The Chevrolet Monte Carlo got 11 miles to the gallon. Simon and Garfunkel wer...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 3 weeks ago

A rogues' gallery of science-denying coal and oil companies, industry lobbyists and trade associations, right-wing advocacy groups, and ultra-conserva...

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In Watchdog Earth - Posted 5 weeks ago

In another sign that environmental advocates are losing (have lost?) any momentum they once had on persuading the federal government to tackle climate...

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In Clean Tech Blog - Posted 5 weeks ago

by Richard T. StuebiThe distinction between green power -- electricity without any carbon emissions, usually from renewable energy sources such as s...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 6 weeks ago

Yesterday, President Obama issued a memorandum directing several of his department and agency chairs to come together and works towards a Comprehensiv...

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In Watchdog Earth - Posted 6 weeks ago

Cleaner air, fewer ear infections.That's the bottom line of a new study on air pollution out of UCLA: We believe these findings, which demonstrate a d...

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In TerraBlog - Posted 7 weeks ago

Usual suspects, behaving in the usual ways by Adam Stein The people who feel that the climate change legislation working its way through congress ...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 7 weeks ago

Yesterday, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced a resolution aimed at blocking the EPA from issues rules to limit global warming pollution. The re...

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