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The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants Into the Earth (By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica as reported by TruthDig.com, 9/24/12) Ocean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2 World (Oceana.org, 9/24/12) How High Oil Prices Will Permanently Cap Economic Growth (By Jeff Rubin, Bloomberg News, 9/23/12) Climate Change: Presidential Campaign Fails To Highlight Severity Of Issue (By Seth Borenstein, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 9/23/12)
America's
miasma of misinformation on climate change: With serious reporting of global
warming by US media virtually nonexistent, it's no wonder Americans are
paralysed in denial (By Anna M. Clark, The [UK] Guardian, 9/23/12) Senate passes bill to shield US airlines from EU carbon-emissions law: Unanimously passed Thune bill aims to enable US airlines to avoid paying for their carbon emissions on European flights (By Reuters as reported by The [UK] Guardian, 9/22/12) Nancy C. Unger: Fifty years after ‘Silent Spring,' let's not roll back environmental protections (By Nancy C. Unger, The Cap Times, 9/21/12) 'Planetary Emergency': New Data Elevates Climate Change Alarm: Arctic exploitation 'perfect indictment of our failure to get to grips with the greatest problem we've ever faced' (By Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, 9/20/12) US Drought Brings Mass Livestock Slaughter, Soaring Food Prices to World (By Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, 9/19/12) NOAA: Record High Ocean Temperatures in North Atlantic (By Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, 9/19/12) Agenda 21 and the UN Plot to Take Over America: Bill Proposed In Florida Expands Its Reach To Stop Just About Everything Green (By Lloyd Alter, Treehugger.com - Business/Environmental Policy, 9/18/12) U.Va. wins key ruling in Prince William global warming-FOIA case involving Michael Mann (By Tom Jackman, The Washington Post, 9/18/12) |