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National
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Denying
Global Warming Despite No Actual Expertise: Don't laugh:
It's the wackiest and most extreme climate-change deniers who carry the most
influence in Washington (By Bill
McKibben, Salon.com, 6/4/12)
Climate
Change: Carbon Dioxide Levels In World's Air Reach 'Troubling Milestone'
(By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post -
Green Blog, 5/31/12)
North
Carolina Bill Would Require Coastal Communities To Ignore Global Warming
Science (By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 5/31/12)
Bicycle Brilliance and the
Greening of America's Streets: The
Green Lane Project brings bicycling into the 21st century-with positive results
for the nation's health, economy, environment and commutes (By Jay
Walljasper, CommonDreams.org, 5/31/12)
Climate
change: Arctic passes 400 parts per million milestone: Arctic monitoring
stations show carbon dioxide levels are now above 400 parts per million. Carbon
dioxide is the chief climate-change gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100
years. Before the Industrial Age, carbon dioxide levels were 275 ppm. (By Seth Borenstein, The
Associated Press as reported by The Christian Science Monitor, 5/31/12)
How
California Could Force the Rest of the US to Label GMO Foods (By Tom
Philpott, Mother Jones, 5/31/12)
BP
Oil Spill Emails Reveal High-Level Discord Over Flow Estimates (By
John Rudolf, The Huffington Post - Green
Blog, 5/31/12)
Top
US companies shelling out to block action on climate change: Analysis of 28
companies finds cases of support for thinktanks that misrepresent climate
science, including Heartland Institute (By
Suzanne Goldenberg, The [UK] Guardian, 5/30/12)
FACT
CHECK: A tough-talking official's words don't match EPA's actions in policing
oil and gas (The Associated Press as reported by The Washington Post -
Business, 5/30/12)
International
Energy Agency Finds ‘Safe' Gas Fracking Would Destroy A Livable Climate (By
Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 5/30/12)
Southern
Great Plains could run out of groundwater in 30 years, study finds: A new study looking at key aquifers beneath the Great Plains and
California's Central Valley suggests that areas of Texas and Kansas are drawing
groundwater at an unsustainable rate. (By Pete Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor,
5/30/12)
Extra
heatwaves could kill 150,000 Americans by 2099 (By Michael Marshall, The
New Scientist - Environment, 5/30/12)
The
Simple, Inexpensive Breakthrough That Is Transforming American Cities
The
Green Lane Project brings bicycling into the 21st century -- with positive
results for the nation's health, economy, environment and commutes. (By Jay Walljasper,
Alternet.org, 5/30/12)
Bikes
Belong launches project for protected bikeways-Green Lane Project
(BikesBelong.org, 5/29/12)
Meet
Romney's-and Obama's-Climate Change Adviser: Gina McCarthy runs
Obama's air policy. But before that, she ran Romney's. (By Kate Sheppard,
Mother Jones Magazine, 5/29/12)
Supercomputer
will help researchers map climate change down to the local level (By Stephen
P. Nash, The Washington Post - National, 5/28/12)
Fukushima
radiation seen in tuna off California (By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters as reported
by The Chicago Tribune, 5/28/12)
‘Green Economy' - New Disguise
for Old Tricks? (By Giuliano Battiston,
IPS News, 5/28/12
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