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Meat Makes the Planet Thirsty California is experiencing one of its worst droughts on record. Just two and a half years ago, Folsom Lake, a major reservoir outside Sacramento, was at 83 percent capacity. Today it’s down to 36 percent. Read More |
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In Parched California, Town Taps Run Nearly Dry People in this mountain town straddling the San Andreas Fault are used to scrapping for water. The lake for which it is named went dry 40 years ago. Read More |
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The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics Each night at dinnertime, a familiar ritual played out in Michael Green's home: He'd slide a stainless steel sippy cup across the table to his two-year-old daughter, Juliette, and she'd howl for the pink plastic one. Often, Green gave in. Read More |
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Study Finds Keystone XL Would Have Much Larger Impact Than State Department Suggests The State Department's final environmental impact analysis for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline downplays the significance the pipeline would have for development of the Canadian tar sands, according to a new analysis from a United Kingdom-based group. Read More |
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Massive desert solar plant opens, already a threatened species The day begins early at the Ivanpah solar power plant. Read More |
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Obama’s Pipeline When I was elected to Congress in 2002, George W. Bush was president and big business wrote environmental policy. Read More |
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Basking in a New Glow If you haven’t noticed the virtual disappearance of old-school incandescent bulbs from retailers’ shelves, there’s good reason. Read More |
