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• Protection of desert land faces off with new energy sources

  —The Daily Score

  Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big solar plants and wind farms planned for the region. [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Feds push farmers to spread coal waste on fields

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  The federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as it considers regulating coal wastes for the first time. [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Federal study tallies carbon stored in plants, soil

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  The Oregonian recently reported on efforts to task federal forests with fighting climate change, and now the US Geological Survey has issued a report attempting to tally just how much carbon the nation's plants and soil store. [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• From bike lanes to wood chips, mayors compare notes

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  It isn't easy getting Italy's city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to ride to work. Copenhagen wants to close its coal plants and expand the subway. At a parallel climate summit there, worldwide mayors are comparing notes on how cities can combat climate' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Climate change could compromise health in AK

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  Coastal erosion isn't the only climate-related problem confronting rural communities. Health officials now are concerned about food and water safety in northern villages as warming temperatures thaw ice cellars and melting permafrost increases the organic content in rivers, creating problems in village water treatment plants.' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• The climate conundrum over nuclear energy

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  Nuclear power poses a major conundrum. Nobody's thrilled about nuclear waste, people fear potential accidents, and proliferation of nuclear weapons is downright scary. On the other hand, nuclear plants generate lots of power and no carbon dioxide. [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Reading Tonight: You Must Go to Open Books or Third Place Books Tonight.

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  There are so many events tonight—a book about the medical science of the TV show House, a book with photos of Puget Sound, a book about mass political murder, and a book about having an "explorer's garden" of invasive plants—but there are really only three events that [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:22am EST
  

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• EPA deems emissions health risk

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  Opening the door to possible broad new federal regulation on U.S. power plants, heavy industry and automobiles, the Obama administration Monday officially declared that greenhouse gases produced by burning coal and oil are a danger to public health. [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• EPA declares greenhouse gases pose health risk

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  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's formal declaration Monday that greenhouse gases jeopardize public health paves the way for federal regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from refineries, chemical facilities and power plants - even if Congress rejects climate change legislation. [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• EPA sets carbon crackdown

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  The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will finalize its determination that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and the environment, paving the way for regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, power plants, factories refineries and other major sources while Congress remains stalled on economy-wide legislation. [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Yellowstone a petri dish for climate change

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  Yellowstone's virtually intact ecosystem, where the hand of man remains light, is a natural place for scientists to study the biological effects of global warming. From the ice fields at Glacier to the namesake plants at Joshua Tree, the changes are imperiling the very features that define some of the [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Federal forests: Cash for climate

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  If forests are the planet's lungs, few breathe deeper than those in Oregon. The rain-soaked tangle of trees and eastern Ponderosa pine forests here store up to half of the emissions from the state's cars and power plants. Now, some in Congress and the administration are trying to find a [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• This Is One of Many Ways to Die

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  Times Online reports:
  A former Miss Argentina has died after undergoing cosmetic surgery to get firmer buttocks.

  Solange Magnano, 38, died of a pulmonary embolism after undergoing a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires, a normally routine procedure which involves placing implants in the buttocks to give them a firmer outline.

  The mother [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:13am EST
  

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• California offers cap-and-trade plan

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  California Tuesday issued the nation's first blueprint for a broad-based cap-and-trade program to control global warming emissions. The pioneering effort would cap greenhouse gases emitted by more than 600 power plants, refineries, cement plants, and other big factories. [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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