Tag: environment
group name: thisjustin
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April 06, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Leading diplomats and scientists fought through the night at an international global warming conference in Brussels. At issue, the extent to which the two sides can agree how far this problem has progressed. . . . more
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May 20, 2006 08:28 AM EDT --
After 13 years of construction and the displacement more than a million people, China pours the final concrete on enormous Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze River:
The Three Gorges Project, with 25,000 . . . more
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June 15, 2006 09:06 AM EDT --
It's not often that a conservationist has something positive to say about President Bush. But Fred Krupp, head of Environmental Defense, says the President's plan to designate the Northwestern . . . more
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June 29, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --
As I walk out the door on my two-week vacation, I submit this excerpt from an important AP article about the most important movie of our lifetime: . . . more
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July 28, 2006 01:05 PM EDT --
The latest New York Times/Wall St. Journal Poll, which covered a wide range of issues, shows that Americans are depressed about the country's direction under the Bush Administration and are pessimistic . . . more
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July 24, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
Contrary to the non-scientific right, including the op/ed page of the Wall Street Journal, there is consensus on Global Warming.
Naomi Oreskes, a history of science professor, responds:
Papers that . . . more
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June 01, 2006 08:48 AM EDT --
In what would be a major boost to the alternative fuel market, Wal-Mart may sell ethanol at its 383 U.S. gas stations.
According to the Associated Press, Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, brought . . . more
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September 05, 2008 11:51 AM EDT --
nOt thE lAtEst nEwS-sQuAre-DoWn eDitiOn
Political Punditry Provides Prophetically Putrid Prognostication
Published September 4, 2008
This week our roving . . . more
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October 02, 2006 11:26 AM EDT --
I admit I have a soft spot in my heart for farmers. Like the young man in this video my father was a farmer/rancher before he went off to college. And until he was well into his 40s he fought a kind of . . . more
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July 17, 2006 01:31 PM EDT --
Yesterday my wife and I greatly enjoyed an outstanding new documentary film: WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR. We highly recommend that you go see it.
There was one aspect of it that I liked even better than . . . more
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October 18, 2006 08:08 PM EDT --
Just received an e-mail that the Center for Biological Diversity just won a legal battle against the Interior Dept regarding the Sierra Nevada Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog. The Interior Dept didn't . . . more
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October 09, 2006 03:21 PM EDT --
Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly speculates on whether the test was a fake. He writes:
There's something peculiar here. A geology professor at Yale, Jeffrey Park, emails to tell me that the updated . . . more
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November 24, 2006 03:23 PM EST --
The water is cloudy with silt as the river is pulled into the sea by the morning tide. Salty air, heavy with the scent of maritime life, stings my face. The sky . . . more
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May 13, 2006 01:32 PM EDT --
The New York Times reports that the U.S. Air Force will test blending traditional crude oil-based jet fuel with a synthetic liquid made first from natural gas, and, eventually, from coal:
By late . . . more
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October 03, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
I came across an interesting quote today whilst reading my usual gamut of market commentary that made my political antennae shoot up into the air:
As we understand it, back in late July Goldman Sachs . . . more
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May 25, 2006 08:47 PM EDT --
The House, for the fifth time, approves drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The vote was 225-201 to direct the Interior Department to open oil leases on 2,000 of the 1.5 million acres of ANWR's . . . more
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September 14, 2006 06:21 PM EDT --
Pew Research came out with a highly detailed look at American opinions going into the midterm election season (today, 9/15/06), and most data are encouraging for Democrats and people who want to see a . . . more
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October 09, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
Here's a helpful video for those of you unfamiliar with underground nuclear testing.
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June 01, 2006 07:58 PM EDT --
Starting today, refiners and fuel importers are required to take virtually all the sulfur out of most highway diesel fuel to help meet the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-air regulations. . . . more
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September 04, 2006 05:22 PM EDT --
by Geoffrey Lean
The Independent
9.03.06- Food supplies are shrinking alarmingly around the globe, plunging the world into its greatest crisis for more than 30 years. New figures show that this year's . . . more
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