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June 10, 2016
EPA Proposed New Emergency Limits For Radioactive Drinking Water, And They Don’t Look Good
The EPA proposed new water safety guidelines for radioactive emergencies -- like a nuclear meltdown or a dirty bomb.
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Texas Launches New Effort To Sue The EPA Over Methane Regulations
Texas really likes to sue the EPA.
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8 Republicans Just Joined House Democrats To Oppose This Dangerous Offshore Testing
"If one is not going to do something, it doesn’t strike me as reasonable to prepare to do that something."
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Big Green Groups Line Up Behind Clinton, While Smaller Ones Stick To Sanders
America's self-proclaimed "largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization" endorsed Clinton on Thursday.
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The Second-Largest City In The U.S. Is On The Verge Of Being 100 Percent Renewable
The United States' second-largest city could have a very green future.
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June 9, 2016
The Media’s ‘Murrow Moment’ Missed Trump’s Dangerous Climate Views
It's great the media has begun calling Trump out on his immoral racism. Now it's time to call Trump out on his immoral denial of climate science.
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Bay Area Voters Agreed To First-Of-Its Kind Climate Adaptation Tax
San Francisco Bay voters just said yes to a tax for climate adaptation and a Bay cleanup.
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New U.S. Solar Capacity Just Outperformed Fossil Fuels
Solar accounted for 64 percent of all new electric generating capacity -- beating coal, natural gas, and nuclear power combined.
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Harvard Study Finds $38 Billion Economic Benefit From EPA’s Carbon Rule
A policy moderately stringent and highly flexible, similar to the Clean Power Plan, may cause net benefits of some $38 billion a year.
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June 8, 2016
Last Oil Company Pulls Out Of Arctic Offshore Drilling Efforts In Chukchi Sea
Apart from one token lease block held by Shell, Repsol's leases were the last blocks remaining in the Chukchi.
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