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08 Nov

Republicans to Boycott Senate Climate Bill Mark Up; Boxer to Proceed Regardless

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has promised to mark up climate legislation in her committee on Tuesday, as planned, despite an expected boycott of the work session by the committee's Republican members. While two members from the minority party (...


Go Wild at the World Wilderness Congress—Without Leaving Home

If you aren't attending WILD9--the weeklong World Wilderness Congress (November 6-13) that will bring together many of the world's leading conservationists and wilderness experts to debate and take action on critical environmental issues--you can still pull up a chair and join in through a vari...

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Never Say Never(land): UN Names Tinker Bell Ambassador of Green

The United Nations has named Tinker Bell--a leading citizen of both Disneyland and Neverland--as its "Honorary Ambassador of Green" to help promote environmental awareness among children. Kermit the Frog once observed in song that "it's not easy being green," but he was tal...


EPA Places Annual Cost of Climate Bill at $100 Per U.S. Household

The Senate plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming would increase energy costs by about $100 annually (actually $80-$111) for a typical U.S. household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency. That's roughly the same figure the EPA calculated for ...

Bury About.co...l Issues October 23

U.S. Proposes Plan to Protect Critical Polar Bear Habitat in Alaska

U.S. Proposes Plan to Protect Critical Polar Bear Habitat in Alaska

The Obama administration today announced a new plan to designate more than 200,000 square miles of Alaskan territory as "critical habitat" for polar bears, a threatened species that has become to global warming what canaries once were to coal mines: the visible early warning of pending...


EPA Stops Largest Mountaintop Mining Operation in Appalachia

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday halted the largest mountaintop coal mining operation in Appalachia ever to receive a federal permit--the first time in the EPA's 37-year history that the agency has used its regulatory power to stop an already approved project. Mountaintop mining is...

Bury About.co...l Issues October 18

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