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Last Act for the Bluefin - 2009-11-18
The international commission that sets fishing limits for tuna and other large migratory fish is meeting in Brazil. The commission faces a depressing reality: the bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean is headed toward commercial extinction.

EPA Calls for Chemical Law Reform, More Responsibility on Companies - 2009-10-01
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for changes to the country's chemical management law, and has released a list of principles it and the Obama Administration hope Congress follows as it reviews the law. The EPA has also announced six chemicals it plans to prioritize for analysis and regulation.

What Makes Europe Greener than the U.S.? - 2009-09-30
The average American produces three times the amount of CO2 emissions as a person in France. A U.S. journalist now living in Europe explains how she learned to love her clothesline and sweating in summer.

Important Week for Global Warming…Some Rays of Hope for Global Efforts - 2009-09-22
Today begins a week dubbed "climate week" because of all the high-level climate discussions that are occurring. And they just all happen to be occurring in the US at an important time for the US domestic debate to pass a clean energy and climate bill in the US Senate.

We're Screwed! - 2009-09-21
The edition is fake, but the facts are real!

EPA Expects to Revise Rules for Wastewater Discharges from Power Plants - 2009-09-15
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water.

Global Climate Deal Has Only 50:50 Chance - 2009-09-08
The chances of a global agreement to fight climate change at U.N. talks in Copenhagen in December are only 50:50, said Australia's leading environmentalist, who warned of "full climactic destabilization" without a pact.

Big Picture Video - 2009-08-21
This is the bigger picture. . .

Green Chip Living - 2009-08-21
Big picture videos, 100 mpg cars and green buildings in Kauai.

Oil Group's 'Citizen' Rally Memo Stirs Debate - 2009-08-17
A petroleum industry trade group is asking oil companies to recruit employees and retirees to attend rallies attacking climate-change legislation, an approach to grass-roots politics that resembles strategies used recently by some opponents of health-care reform.

Tropical Botanical Gardens - 2009-08-14
Why plant species conservation programs, like those operated by the National Tropical Botanical Gardens, are so important.

Possible Coal Industry Link to Forged Letters - 2009-08-07
A total of 12 forged letters, sent to three House Democrats, have thus far been uncovered.

Court ends Bush-era road-building in forests - 2009-08-06
The Bush administration acted illegally when it opened millions of acres (hectares) of U.S. national forests to road-building and logging, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

US scientists study huge plastic patch in Pacific - 2009-08-04
Marine scientists from California are venturing this week to the middle of the North Pacific for a study of plastic debris accumulating across hundreds of miles (km) of open sea dubbed the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide - 2009-07-27
Photos from US spy satellites declassified by the Obama White House provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer. The effects on the world's weather, environments and wildlife could be devastating

The Water Savers - 2009-07-13
It may seem paradoxical to New Englanders who spent June carrying umbrellas to work every day to hear that Dighton has a desalination plant that converts saltwater into fresh, and that there are more such plants on the way in the area

Activist turns Jakarta suburb into green oasis - 2009-07-06
In many areas of Jakarta, the air pollution is choking, what little green spaces there are wilting and garbage festers on street corners. And then there's Banjarsari, a green oasis on the outskirts of city.

10 Outrageous Claims - 2009-07-01
As the House debate heated up, so did the hyperbole.

Global Warming Denial - 2009-06-30
EPA "Suppressed Dissent Scandal" promoted by embattled and bitter Senator Inhofe is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind...

Climate Change Legislation - 2009-06-26
Is the climate change legislation debate being fueled by manipulated data?

European airport group pledges to cut CO2 to zero - 2009-06-16
Thirty-one European airports including Paris Charles de Gaulle launched a joint program on Tuesday to cut their carbon dioxide emissions to zero, airports body ACI Europe said.

Cool Cuisine - 2009-05-29
Author Laura Stec provides a rational analysis of our conventional food system and its impacts on the environment.

US wants to paint the world white to save energy - 2009-05-26
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate change symposium in London.

Consumers in India, Brazil and China are the 'Greenest': Greendex Survey - 2009-05-14
For a second year in a row, consumers in India, Brazil and China scored the highest -- and those in the U.S., the lowest -- for green behavior among the countries included the Greendex survey conducted by the National Geographic Society and international polling firm GlobeScan.

South Africa To Protect Remote Islands - 2009-05-07
South Africa will establish one of the world’s largest Marine Protected Areas (MPA) around its Prince Edward Islands, reports WWF.

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