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National and International News
Virtuous
cycle: 10 lessons from the world's great biking cities (By Christine
Grant, Grist.org - Biking, 1/30/12)
On
Climate Change, Weathercasters May Be Misguiding Their Viewers (By Lynne
Peeples, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 1/30/12)
State
Dept. official overstates Keystone jobs by a factor of 10 (By Jess
Zimmerman, Grist.org - Energy Policy, 1/27/12)
Popular
Criticism Cracks China's Wall of Denial About Pollution (By Sharon
LaFraniere, The New York Times, 1/27/12)
The
End of Elastic Oil: The last ten years have brought a structural
change to the world oil market, with changes in demand increasingly playing a
role in maintaining the supply/demand balance. These changes will come at
an increasingly onerous cost to our economy unless we take steps to make our
demand for oil more flexible. (By Tom Konrad, Forbes.com - Tech, 1/26/12)
Big
government, our one shot against crazy storms: In our age of
devastating droughts, wildfires and hurricanes, the federal government is more
important than ever (By Christian Parenti, Salon.com - Global Warming, 1/26/12)
Conservatives
Use Creationist Playbook to Attack Climate Change Education in Schools:
The overwhelming scientific evidence that
says humans are causing the warming of the planet has emerged as the new
battlefield in middle and high schools in the U.S. (By Bill Walker, Alternet.org -
Environment, 1/26/12)
On
Keystone XL, Mainstream Media Displays Major Bias Towards Oil Industry (By
Brian Merchant, Treehugger.com - Business/ Corporate Responsibility, 1/26/12)
The
peak oil crisis: On closing our refineries (By Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press, 1/25/12)
Oil
Supply as a Strategic Risk (By Justin Gillis, The New York Times - Green
Blog, 1/25/12)
Has
Petroleum Production Peaked, Ending the Era of Easy Oil? A new analysis
concludes that easily extracted oil peaked in 2005, suggesting that dirtier fossil
fuels will be burned and energy prices will rise (By David Biello, Scientific American, 1/25/12)
Bernie
Sanders Pledges Legislation Ending 'Absurdity' of Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies
(By Mat McDermott, Treehugger.com - Business/ Economics, 1/25/12)
Why
does agriculture keep getting a climate pass? (By Tom Laskawy,
Grist.org - Food, 1/25/12)
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