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California's environmental laws: Job creators, not job killers
Who knew that being a smoggy place might be good for business? Gov. Jerry Brown is in China, and one of the things he’s pitching is California’s expertise in dealing with smog. Because if there’s one thing we have in common with the...Tags: Environmental Politics, Government, China, Environmental Issues, Plant Openings
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An autumn Coachella? Promoter talks potential of adding more festivals
Launching Friday at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, the Goldenvoice-promoted Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival has been a spring staple for more than a decade. Could it soon have some company in the fall? Indio recently signed off on a 17-year...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Festive Events
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China pollution may hold silver lining for California
BEIJING — As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that blanketed Los Angeles decades ago. The soot and smog that are byproducts of this country's industrial progress are...
Tags: Regional Authority, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, China, University of California, Davis, Environmental Issues
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Even after years of education, litter is still a problem in the Valley
reporter"Bags are really one of the number one problems," explains Cristina Siegel. Bags, tin cans, cigarette boxes, these items keep Seigel and the Clean Valley Council busy year round. Explains Siegel, "Well-established long running organization that's...Tags: Roanoke County, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Environmental Issues
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‘Smog catcher’
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Seaweed Farming in the Connecticut Sound Could Help Grow the Economy
A 21st century riddle for you: What's slimy, green and brown, sometimes smelly and disgusting, but also a potentially wonderful anti-pollution tool that's good to eat and could turn into an economic pot of gold for Connecticut? The answer, of course, is...
Tags: Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Gardening, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Even Shad Could Use A Little Help
The scientific name of the American shad, Alosa sapidissima, provides a hint as to why it is many people's favorite fish, and why the season when they swim upriver to their breeding grounds is so eagerly awaited. The name means "most delicious herring."...Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Atlantic Ocean, Aquaculture, Environmental Issues
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Mailbag: Saving the Earth hardly starts with fire pits
Melville tells us in the opening lines of "Moby Dick:" "Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries — stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all...Tags: Government, Environmental Issues, United Nations, Politics, National Government
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EPA nominee a champion for public health
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate will hold a confirmation hearing on Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Over her decades of public service, Ms. McCarthy has demonstrated a strong commitment to...Tags: U.S. Senate, Mitt Romney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology
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ConocoPhillips joins hiatus in offshore Arctic operations
SEATTLE — A third major oil company has announced it is backing off from offshore drilling in the U.S. Arctic, with ConocoPhillips saying it will put its planned 2014 operations in the Chukchi Sea on hold because of “regulatory...
Tags: Ken Salazar, Environmental Issues, Sean Parnell, Petroleum Industry, Energy Resources
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LETTER: Maybe We Shouldn't Rush To Fillet This Fish
Although recommendations of what we should and shouldn't eat bewilder us and make any cuisine feel like the weighing of lesser evils, it isn't exactly responsible to recommend the many ways to enjoy salmon "because it's plentiful and popular" [April 25,...Tags: Seafood, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Issues, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages
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In Montana, ranchers line up against coal
COLSTRIP, Mont. — Out in these windy stretches of cottonwood and prairie grass, not far from where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer ran into problems at Little Bighorn, a new battle is unfolding over what future energy development in the West will...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Transportation, Travel, Railway Transportation
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