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8/19/2008: Court Strikes Down Bush Administration Pollution Monitoring Loophole, Upholds Public's Right to Know
8/18/2008: Suit Challenges Legality of Air Credits to SoCal Polluters
8/18/2008: EPA Buzz Kill: Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information?
8/12/2008: Agreement Limits Navy's Use of Low-Frequency Active Sonar
8/6/2008: Conservation Groups Say California Climate Land-Use Bill Needed to Achieve Pollution Reduction Targets of Global Warming Solutions Act
7/31/2008: California Public Utilities Commission Adopts New Energy Efficiency Goals for Investor Owned Utilities

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8/19/2008: Experts See Offshore Windmills as an Energy Solution; Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
8/19/2008: Clinton: U.S. Should Demonstrate Energy Solutions; Associated Press
8/18/2008: Electric Bikes Sell Briskly in U.S. as Gas Prices Up; Associated Press
8/18/2008: California Air Agency Sued Over Emission Credits; Associated Press
8/18/2008: Renewable Power's Growth in Colorado Presages National Debate; washingtonpost.com
8/17/2008: As Spotted Owl's Numbers Keep Falling, Some Fear It's Doomed; The Seattle Times

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As the Sea Rises: Rich countries are responsible for global warming. Poor countries like Bangladesh -- where millions of people are destined to become environmental refugees -- suffer the consequences. Unless we break that cycle, we could all be in trouble.; by George Black
"We Have Rattlesnakes": The chances of dying from a snakebite are seven times less than the risk of being killed by lightning. Yet snakes continue to arouse a primal dread in us. One small town in Texas turns our worst fears into a strange carnival.; by Ted Levin
Montana Gives Peace a Chance: Is it possible to revive the logging industry and protect wilderness at the same time? After years of fighting, a group of unlikely bedfellows decided to give it a try. Now the bill they crafted has to jump one last hurdle: Washington, D.C.; by Rick Bass

Wind, Solar and Biomass Energy Today: Alternatives to old and dirty fossil fuels are now business-friendly, cost-competitive and ready to meet a significant portion of America's energy needs.
Solving Global Warming: A four-point action plan that will drastically cut U.S. global warming pollution.
Legislation to Control Global Warming Pollution: The U.S. must pass strong legislation to cap emissions of heat-trapping pollutants.
New Nuclear Power Plants Are Not a Solution for America’s Energy Needs: New nuclear power plants are unlikely to provide a significant fraction of future U.S. needs for low-carbon energy.

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