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L.A. City Council OKs ban on plastic grocery and carryout bags Los Angeles on Tuesday became the largest city in the nation to move toward a ban on plastic grocery bags, with the City Council barring them in supermarkets, convenience stores and any big retailer that sells groceries. Read More |
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Bloomberg Plan Aims to Require Food Composting Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking in parks and encourage bike riding, is taking on a new cause: requiring New Yorkers to separate their food scraps for composting. Read More |
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The E.P.A. Backs Off on Factory Farms The Environmental Protection Agency is obliged under the Clean Water Act to monitor America’s waterways and shield them from the toxic runoff from factory farms. Read More |
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Climate change could slash snowfall in Southern California mountains Climate change is likely to wipe a lot of the white from those postcard winter scenes of Los Angeles ringed by snow-capped mountains, according to new research. Read More |
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Department of Energy’s Crusade Against Leaks of a Potent Greenhouse Gas Yields Results Every year, the United States Department of Energy’s far-flung operations generate millions of tons of climate-warming greenhouse gases. Read More |
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Climate Change In NYC: Mayor Bloomberg To Discuss Prepping City For Warming World Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York from storms and the effects of global warming. Read More |
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What to Make of a Warming Plateau As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming. Read More |
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REFILE-Elite flyers pressure United Airlines to act on climate change A group of United Airlines' most frequent flyers, including billionaire investor Tom Steyer, on Monday called on the big airline to stop blocking climate change actions. Read More |
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Greenhouse gases nearing highly dangerous levels, study finds Emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are growing at such a rate that the world will probably exceed a safe limit in average global temperatures by the end of the century and veer into a higher temperature zone that would profoundly damage economic growth and most other aspects of life, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Read More |
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Bill Would Sweeten Loans for Energy-Efficient Homes Home buyers purchasing energy-efficient properties could qualify for larger mortgages than their incomes would normally allow under a Senate bill reintroduced Thursday with broad real estate industry support. Read More |
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