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February 25, 2016
Ocean Acidification Is Slowing Coral Reef Growth
This is bad news for coral, because as oceans get more and more acidic, coral could begin to dissolve faster than it can be rebuilt.
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February 24, 2016
Hundreds Of Lawmakers Are Ganging Up Against The Clean Power Plan
More than 200 lawmakers opposing the Clean Power Plan say the rule usurps the role of Congress in creating climate and energy policy.
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States Just Asked The Supreme Court To Halt Another Pollution Rule
Michigan just led a Supreme Court petition to allow more water pollution.
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Oregon Set To Pass One Of The Most Ambitious Environmental Bills In Decades
A bill being debated in the Oregon legislature would require two of the state's biggest utilities to cut coal by 2030 and double renewable energy by 2050.
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February 23, 2016
Study Shows Education And Facts Don’t Actually Matter To Republican Climate Deniers
“People higher in skepticism are more likely to be old, white and male – but the effects are so tiny you have to squint to see them. What really popped was people’s ideologies, political values, worldviews.”
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No Bill Gates, We Don’t Need ‘Energy Miracles’ To Solve Climate Change
We don't need energy "miracles" to preserve a livable climate as Bill Gates claims, we need to accelerate technology deployment. That’s what drives innovation, as Gates himself used to argue.
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Environmental Groups Are Pushing To Overhaul The Way The U.S. And Canada Reviews Pipelines
The groups unveiled the new "climate test" as the leaders of the United States and Canada prepare to meet to talk climate policy in March
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House Moves On Bills That Would Allow States To Seize Millions Of Acres Of Public Lands
The House of Representatives will consider three bills this week that would dispose of vast stretches of national forests and other public lands across the country.
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Scientists Are More Confident Than Ever In Troubling Sea Level Rise Projections
The Quinault Indian Nation has lived in a peninsula just west of Seattle for generations. Yet in recent times, the waters that feed this ancient tribe have been swallowing their village of Taholah, the reservation’s main population center, little by little.
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February 22, 2016
More Than 100 Scientists Ask Leading Science Association To Cut Ties With Exxon
More than 100 scientists sent a letter to the American Geophysical Union -- the largest association of earth and space scientists in the world -- asking it to cut ties with Exxon.
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