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"Offset Your Carbon Footprint" [1]

What do you buy when you buy a carbon offset? Susan Hess follows the $4.50 she paid to offset the CO2 emitted for a train trip to Seattle in Gorge Outdoors, July 24, 2009.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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"Sen. Kerry on Climate Bill" [4]

"In an interview with Yale Environment 360, John Kerry praises the carbon cap-and-trade legislation now being debated in the U.S. Senate, describes its importance to upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen, and explains how he plans to help the landmark legislation clear the Senate and become law."
Source: YaleE360 [5], 07/28/2009

"'Dead Zone' Smaller But More Severe: NOAA" [6]

"The 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico, an area choked by low oxygen levels that threatens marine life, is smaller than expected this year but more deadly, the government said on Monday."
Source: Reuters [7], 07/28/2009

"An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up" [8]

The indigenous Kamayura tribe in Brazil's rain forest are losing their traditional source of food. The fish are disappearing from their lake as the Amazon region region is made hotter and drier by deforestation -- and some say by climate change.
Source: NYTimes [9], 07/28/2009

"Fight Brewing Over Dormant Wells" [12]

"More than 20,000 old oil and gas wells across [Alberta] have been sitting abandoned or inactive for more than a decade without being cleaned up, worrying landowners and environmentalists who say the sites unnecessarily eat up and possibly contaminate valuable farm land."
Source: Calgary Herald [13], 07/28/2009

"Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo Country" [14]

Homes are "contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of uranium from the days of the cold war, when hundreds of uranium mines dotted the vast tribal land known as the Navajo Nation."
Source: NYTimes [15], 07/28/2009

Senate Takes Up $34.3B Energy and Water Money Bill" [18]

"The Senate [Monday began debate] on a $34.3 billion fiscal 2010 energy and water spending bill as environmental groups press lawmakers to strip provisions they say will damage wetlands and fish habitat in Missouri."
Source: Greenwire [19], 07/28/2009

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