"Coyotes howling into the night are as much a part of Calabasas as the aspiring screenwriters, retired moguls and stay-at-home mothers who crowd the coffee shops in the city's well-manicured mall."
"One of the darkest Halloweens ever loomed for about 3 million households left without power on Sunday by a rare October snowstorm in the Northeast that bedeviled transportation and killed at least eight people."
"Green groups said on Saturday they would give the Environmental Protection Agency more time to forge the first-ever plan to regulate carbon dioxide from power plants, the country's single biggest source of greenhouse gases."
Having previously declared his acceptance of the scientific consensus that human emissions are causing climate change, Mitt Romney finally joined the Republican consensus that science is wrong.
"KORIYAMA, Japan—Nearly eight months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident scattered radioactive material over surrounding communities, Japan still is struggling to figure out how to clean up the mess, exacerbating fears about health risks and fanning mistrust of the government.
"Monday marks the birth of the world’s seven billionth baby, according to the United Nations. In all likelihood, that child will probably take its first breaths in a city in a developing country, where projections say the majority of new children will be born."
Follow news from Durban on United Nations COP17/CMP7 climate change meetings throughout the day on SEJ's Durban Diary. [14]
"WASHINGTON -- A new fast-track planning effort could shave years off the next phase of Everglades restoration, putting more fresh and clean water into the central and southern portions of Florida's 'River of Grass' more quickly."
"The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled its road map for solar energy development, directing large-scale industrial projects to 285,000 acres of desert land in the western U.S. while opening 20 million acres of the Mojave for new development."
"DALLAS -- Environmental groups have notified the Energy Futures Holdings Corp. and its subsidiary, Luminant Generation Company, that they intend to sue the company for more than 38,000 alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at two Texas coal-fired power plants."
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[2] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-coyotes-20111031,0,5511755.story
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rare-deadly-october-storm-hangs-northeast
[4] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/63739
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/green-groups-give-epa-more-time-co2-rule
[6] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/29/us-usa-epa-carbon-idUSTRE79S2IO20111029
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/caving-coal-oil-mitt-romney-flip-flops-manmade-climate-change
[8] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/mitt-flip-on-climate-change/2011/10/28/gIQAU5bEQM_blog.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/radiation-cleanup-confounds-japan
[10] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204394804577008192502423920.html
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/reality-soaring-population-reality-check-food-water-and-poverty
[12] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/reality-a-soaring-population-reality-check-food-water-and-poverty/article2219381/
[13] https://www.sej.org/the-durban-connection
[14] http://durbandiary.sej.org
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/feds-announce-plan-speed-everglades-restoration
[16] http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/27/2475291/feds-announce-plan-to-speed-everglades.html
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-administration-announces-desert-solar-energy-zones
[18] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-solar-desert-20111028,0,7889585.story
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/enviros-sue-texas-utilities-over-38000-clean-air-act-violations
[20] http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2011/2011-10-27-091.html
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[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4157
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