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Calif. Gov. Brown Faces Tricky Environmental And Energy Issues [1]

"California Gov. Jerry Brown's decisions regarding environmental and energy issues will affect public and private spending and public health for the foreseeable future."

Environmental Politics [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Public [4]
California [5]
Source: LA Times [6], 02/01/2011

Alberta: "New SO2 Limits Too Lax, Critics Charge" [7]

New sulfur dioxide standards set by Alberta in December 2010 are far weaker than some members of an advisory panel hoped for, environmentalists say. They suspect the oil industry has gotten to Alberta Environment.

Environmental Politics [2]
Air [8]
Public [4]
Canada [9]
Source: Edmonton Journal [10], 02/01/2011

"Analysis: Obama Green Job Vision Faces Challenge From Abroad" [11]

"CEO Bill Watkins wants to build a $100 million next-generation LED light factory near his Silicon Valley-area headquarters, but China wants the 2,000 jobs he hopes to create."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [4]
International [14]
Source: Reuters [15], 01/31/2011

25 Arrested Outside Fossil-Fuel Billionaires' Right-Wing Retreat [16]

"Hundreds of environmentalists, union members and liberal activists converged on Rancho Mirage on Sunday to rally against what they see as the influence of two of the nation's leading financial backers of conservative causes."

Activism [17]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: LA Times [19], 01/31/2011

"EPA Chief Lisa Jackson Hears Impact of Pollution on City's Poor" [20]

"EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson spent an hour listening to residents of El Paso, Vinton, Westway, Sunland Park and other locations who spoke of health problems they believe are related to pollution from a steel plant, a landfill, chemical plants, dairies and Asarco, the shuttered smelter."

Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [2]
People & Population [21]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: El Paso Times [22], 01/31/2011

"Koch Industries Unamused by Climate Spoof" [23]

"From the sometimes bizarre front lines of the climate-change culture wars: It seems the brothers Koch, proprietors of the giant, Kansas-based industrial conglomerate and well-heeled supporters of Tea Party causes, have now set their sights on a group of anonymous pranksters who spoofed a Koch Industries press release last month — one that suggested the brothers were having a change of heart on climate change."

Activism [17]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Green (NYT) [24], 01/28/2011

"Obama Ducks and Covers on Climate" [25]

"The 'C-word,' climate, appears to have become to the Beltway what  the 'P-word,' population, has been in climate treaty negotiations for a long time — unmentionable."

Environmental Politics [2]
Climate Change [12]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Dot Earth [26], 01/27/2011

Obama Pitches Green-Energy Job Creation in Wisconsin [27]

"President Obama visits green-energy companies in Wisconsin as battles brew over spending cuts back in Washington. The day takes on a football theme as Obama, a Chicago Bears fan, receives a Packers jersey and, in a factory visit, quotes Vince Lombardi."

Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: LA Times [29], 01/27/2011

Texas Defies EPA on Corpus Christi Power Plant Permit [30]

"Texas officials granted an air permit for a proposed Corpus Christi power plant Wednesday despite calls from federal regulators to delay approval of the controversial request."

Air [8]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Houston Chronicle [31], 01/27/2011

Jackson Memo Leaves EPA Response on Openness in Doubt [32]

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says the Dec. 21 memo implies that existing EPA openness policy meets White House criteria. Meanwhile, the Office of Management and Budget may again be tampering with agency science for political purposes — accused by Arizona congressman Raúl Grijalva (pictured) of censoring FOIA'd documents relating to the mid-summer estimate of Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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