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"Sierra Club Targets GOP Lawmakers for Opposing Wind Energy Tax Credit" [1]

"An environmental group launched ads Monday targeting three GOP lawmakers for failing to push for an extension of a tax credit for wind energy producers, charging them with killing green energy jobs."

Activism [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Hill/E2 Wire [7], 07/31/2012
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"Legal Battle Erupts Over Whose Plastic Consumers Should Trust" [8]

Eastman Chemical is suing a scientist for saying that some of its products could expose consumers to estrogen-disrupting chemicals.

"In 2007, Eastman Chemical began marketing a tough new BPA-free plastic called Tritan. Business was good, says Lucian Boldea, a vice president at Eastman.

'We were able to make the statement that our product is not made with BPA and would release data to consumers to support that fact,' he says.

Chemicals [9]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Shots/NPR [10], 07/31/2012
  • Read more about "Legal Battle Erupts Over Whose Plastic Consumers Should Trust" [8]

"New Breed of Ranchers Shapes a Sustainable West" [11]

"These green cowboys try to marry good stewardship of the land with making money."

Agriculture [12]
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Source: Christian Science Monitor [13], 07/31/2012
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"Western North America Faces 21St Century 'Mega-Drought'" [14]

"CORVALLIS, Oregon -- The climate's 'new normal' for most of the coming century will parallel the long-term drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 -- the most severe drought in 800 years - scientists report in a study published Sunday."

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Canada [17]
Source: ENS [18], 07/31/2012
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Farmers Urge Obama Admin To Suspend Ethanol Quota Amid Drought [19]

"EPA's requirements for corn ethanol will drive food prices even higher after an already distressed harvest, growers warn."

Agriculture [12]
Climate Change [15]
Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Guardian [21], 07/31/2012
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"Is the Natural Gas Industry Buying Academics?" [22]

"Last week the University of Texas provost announced he would re-examine a report by a UT professor that said fracking was safe for groundwater after the revelation that the professor pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Texas natural gas developer. It's the latest fusillade in the ongoing battle over the basic facts of fracking in America."

Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [23]
Science [24]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Mother Jones [25], 07/30/2012
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"Enbridge Races To Clean Up Wisconsin Oil Spill, Restart Line" [26]

"Canada's Enbridge Inc. on Sunday raced to repair a major pipeline that spilled more than 1,000 barrels of oil in a Wisconsin field, provoking fresh ire from Washington over the latest in a series of leaks."

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Source: Reuters [28], 07/30/2012
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"Food-Borne Illnesses Not Diminishing, CDC Finds" [29]

"Little progress has been made in combating many types of food-borne illnesses in recent years, according to new federal data, an outcome that food safety advocates say underscores the need to put into place the landmark food-safety bill signed by President Obama more than a year ago."

Agriculture [12]
Consumer [30]
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Health [32]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Wash Post [33], 07/30/2012
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"Keystone Pipeline Advances" [34]

"TransCanada, the company seeking to build the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline from oil sands formations in Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries, received the final go-ahead from the federal government on Friday for the southern leg of the project."

Energy & Fuel [3]
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Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Green/NYT [35], 07/30/2012
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"'Converted' Skeptic: Humans Driving Recent Warming" [36]

"Richard Muller, a cantankerous but creative physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, who once derided climate change research, then dove in with his own reconstruction of terrestrial temperature changes and confirmed substantial warming, has now concluded that recent warming is 'almost entirely' human caused."

Climate Change [15]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Dot Earth [37], 07/30/2012
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