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• Stiffler signs off from DatelineEarth.com

  Thanks loyal DatelineEarth fans and goodbye [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
  

• Where to find Dateline Earth in the future

  Item tells readers where to find Dateline Earth after the Seattle P-I lays off most of its reporters, including the author. [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
  

• Goodbye from datelineearth.com

  With the Seattle P-I laying off virtually all of its reporters, including the Dateline Earth duo, one of the blog's authors says so long, but tells readers how to find his future work. [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 4:15pm EDT
  

• Business, utilities favor climate change bills in Olympia

  Business and utility interests are largely pleased with climate change bills moving in Olympia [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 11:30am EDT
  

• New species of wolf identified in British Columbia

  A new scientific paper says that the wolves of coastal British Columbia should be considered a distinct species. They are colored differently from their cousins in the Rockies, and they've learned to eat seafood.' [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 1:57pm EDT
  

• Get stuff free -- Martin Tobias launches Kashless in Seattle, hopes to go nationwide

  "Serial entrepreneur" Martin Tobias launches a new site that is designed to allow people to give away stuff they no longer want to people who are in the market for the hand-me-downs. How does Kashless earn money? Ads, of course. [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
  

• Climate skeptics try to get on same page at NYC meeting

  With Obama in office and the Dems running Congress, climate change skeptics met in New York in part to talk strategy. [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 3:06am EDT
  

• Obama administration will not pursue nuke waste dump at Yucca Mountain

  In a major revelation, the Obama administration's energy secretary, Stephen Chu, tells John McCain and other members of Congress the administration will no longer pursue the idea of building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. We wonder what this might mean for the nation's biggest nuclear-waste zone, Eastern [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
  

• RFK Junior tells "Built Green" conference green energy is the path to economic salvation

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tells attendees at the "Built Green" conference in Seattle that building a new green energy industry is the key to pulling the nation out of its current economic doldrums. [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2009, 4:22pm EDT
  

• Environment wants its own Web address: .eco

  Al Gore and others are teaming up to lobby the ruler of the internet, AKA ICANN, to create a pro-environment domain: .eco [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 2:26pm EST
  

• Exxon Valdez 20th anniversary -- an early look

  The 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is coming up, and while Dateline Earth isn't one to do much for anniversary journalism, a session scheduled Thursday night at REI looks pretty interesting. Author-activist Riki Ott will appear alongside photojournalist Natalie Fobes, who documented the disaster in graphic detail' [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 1:31pm EST
  

• Scientists to again help in endangered species protections

  The Obama administration is reexamining a late-breaking Bush policy that removed federal scientists from weighing in on endangered species protections [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 7:47pm EST
  

• Filmmaking Coen brothers take on "clean coal"

  The Coen brothers, who brought you such hilarious films as "Fargo" and "O Brother Where Art Thou" (not to mention the inimitable "The Big Lebowski") have turned their gunsights on the "clean coal" campaign with a funny TV commercial. [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 1:31pm EST
  

• Dirt -- we're running out of it

  MacArthur "genius" grant winner Dave Montgomery holds forth about how the world's dirt supplies are running out. His talk has profound implications for those of us who like to eat. [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 3:47pm EST
  

• Who will run EPA's Seattle-based Region 10?

  Former Seattle City Attorney Mark Sidran and former Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg appear to be the front-runners for the job of heading the four-state U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Seattle-based Region 10. [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 6:21pm EST
  

• Judge rules mining firms must clean up their messes

  A ruling by a federal judge in Northern California, if upheld, would end the practice of mining companies going bankrupt and sticking taxpayers with the cleanup tab, a practice the P-I highlighted in an extensive report on the 1872 Mining Law. Meanwhile, with gold soaring to its highest price this [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 3:28pm EST
  

• Stronger toxic chemcial regulations on horizon

  Congress today heard testimony in favor of tightening the nation's prime chemical rules as Washington lawmakers go after bisphenol A (BPA) in kids' products' [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

• How Puget Sound orcas could affect San Diego's water supply

  Could the plight of Puget Sound's orcas lead to cutbacks in water supplies for Southern Californians? Since two pods frequently swim to California and eat salmon reared in the San Francisco Bay Delta -- drawing about 10 percent to 15 percent of their sustenance -- that's a possibility. Sending water [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 2:28pm EST
  

• Breakthrough boasted by algae-to-energy company

  Bionavitas, a Seattle-area energy startup, announces that it has solved a major problem in the algae-to-energy business: self-shading. The company says this has the potential to rocket ahead algae as a carbon-neutral fuel source. [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 3:36pm EST
  

• San Fran sustainability crusader brings obloquy on self with "Wife Swap" appearance

  A San Francisco eco-entreprneur and sustainability crusader brings obloquy on himself by dissing a Missouri housewife he was paired with on the reality TV show "Wife Swap." [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 3:50pm EST
  

• San Fran sustainability crusader brings obloquy on self with "Wife Swap" appearance

  A San Francisco eco-entreprneur and sustainability crusader brings obloquy on himself by dissing a Missouri housewife he was paired with on the reality TV show "Wife Swap." [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 3:50pm EST
  

• New Puget Sound news site

  A University of Washington journalism class has launched a new news site that covers Puget Sound environmental news. It's led by Warren Cornwall, environment reporter at the Seattle Times. [...]
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  Posted: February 20, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  

• New Puget Sound news site

  A University of Washington journalism class has launched a new news site that covers Puget Sound environmental news. It's led by Warren Cornwall, environment reporter at the Seattle Times. [...]
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  Posted: February 20, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  

• Will saving our climate mean killing our deserts?

  Could the rush to harvest the "green" energy of the sun and wind in the desert Southwest end up trashing the ecosystem? It's already starting to happen, argues a California biologist. [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2009, 4:33pm EST
  

• Will saving our climate mean killing our deserts?

  Could the rush to harvest the "green" energy of the sun and wind in the desert Southwest end up trashing the ecosystem? It's already starting to happen, argues a California biologist. [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2009, 4:33pm EST
  

• Will fighting climate change cost us, or save money?

  Two competing studies are out looking at the potential costs of fighting climate change in the Northwest. One, by the consulting firm ECONorthwest and the University of Oregon, projects massive costs from a "business as usual" scenario. Meanwhile, the Western Business Roundtable says changing to a carbon-neutral society would impose [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

• Will fighting climate change cost us, or save money?

  Two competing studies are out looking at the potential costs of fighting climate change in the Northwest. One, by the consulting firm ECONorthwest and the University of Oregon, projects massive costs from a "business as usual" scenario. Meanwhile, the Western Business Roundtable says changing to a carbon-neutral society would impose [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

• Is population, the ultimate environmental issue, rising to the top again?

  Two recent pieces in Northwest publications make us wonder if maybe the overpopulation discussion that loomed so large early in the modern environmental movement may be making a comeback as a key environmental issue. [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 5:36pm EST
  

• Is population, the ultimate environmental issue, rising to the top again?

  Two recent pieces in Northwest publications make us wonder if maybe the overpopulation discussion that loomed so large early in the modern environmental movement may be making a comeback as a key environmental issue. [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 5:36pm EST
  

• Don't believe in global cooling, state climatologist says

  Phillip Mote, the state of Washington's outgoing climatologist, says people shouldn't get too carried away with the fact that we've had three years of temperatures that seem moderate, and that we've gotten significant snow in Seattle three winters running now. That's like thinking that because the stock market went up' [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 4:56pm EST
  

• Don't believe in global cooling, state climatologist says

  Phillip Mote, the state of Washington's outgoing climatologist, says people shouldn't get too carried away with the fact that we've had three years of temperatures that seem moderate, and that we've gotten significant snow in Seattle three winters running now. That's like thinking that because the stock market went up' [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 4:56pm EST
  

• Pacific Northwest's annual fossil-fuel bill: $29.5 billion -- about $2,500 per person

  The Pacific Northwest spends some $30 billion a year on energy, the Sightline Institute's new Cascadia Scorecard says. For the annual report examining trends in the region said energy was the one going wrong in the worst way. On the other hand, Northwesterners are "achieving modest progress" in the areas [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 6:06pm EST
  

• Pacific Northwest's annual fossil-fuel bill: $29.5 billion -- about $2,500 per person

  The Pacific Northwest spends some $30 billion a year on energy, the Sightline Institute's new Cascadia Scorecard says. For the annual report examining trends in the region said energy was the one going wrong in the worst way. On the other hand, Northwesterners are "achieving modest progress" in the areas [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 6:06pm EST
  

• DNR investigates Boy Scout logging practices

  After an investigative report in the Seattle P-I on the Boy Scouts of America's logging practices, the Washington Department of Natural Resources is taking another look at a one site featured in the series. [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 5:15pm EST
  

• DNR investigates Boy Scout logging practices

  After an investigative report in the Seattle P-I on the Boy Scouts of America's logging practices, the Washington Department of Natural Resources is taking another look at a one site featured in the series. [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 5:15pm EST
  

• "Alarming" declines in salmon survival detailed at Puget Sound/Georgia Basin conference

  The survival of young salmon in the Georgia Strait of British Columbia has undergone "dramatic and alarming" declines, a leading Canadian researcher tells participants in a biennial conference on the restoration of Puget Sound and the Georgia Strait. Meanwhile, a leader of the Puget Sound Partnership says restoration planners must [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  

• "Alarming" declines in salmon survival detailed at Puget Sound/Georgia Basin conference

  The survival of young salmon in the Georgia Strait of British Columbia has undergone "dramatic and alarming" declines, a leading Canadian researcher tells participants in a biennial conference on the restoration of Puget Sound and the Georgia Strait. Meanwhile, a leader of the Puget Sound Partnership says restoration planners must [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  

• What recession? Seattle energy-conservation firm is hiring hundreds

  McKinstry Co., the South Seattle firm that specializes in saving energy in buildings, is bucking local and national economic trends. It plans to hire 500 workers in coming months. [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 1:51pm EST
  

• What recession? Seattle energy-conservation firm is hiring hundreds

  McKinstry Co., the South Seattle firm that specializes in saving energy in buildings, is bucking local and national economic trends. It plans to hire 500 workers in coming months. [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 1:51pm EST
  

• Salmon summit speaker: It's all up to Obama

  At a conference on preserving salmon in Vancouver, a speakers says everyone concerned with salmon from California to Kamchatka is looking to President Obama to come to the rescue. [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 4:40pm EST
  

• Salmon summit speaker: It's all up to Obama

  At a conference on preserving salmon in Vancouver, a speakers says everyone concerned with salmon from California to Kamchatka is looking to President Obama to come to the rescue. [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 4:40pm EST
  

• Some growers support keeping endangered state pesticide panel

  Item highlights and follows up to a story about how Washington state's Pesticide Incident Reporting and Tracking panel is going to be eliminated, ostensibly for budget reasons. But the council's annual budget is only $10,000. It was, however, a source of political heartburn for Gov. Chris Gregoire. [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 3:58pm EST
  

• Some growers support keeping endangered state pesticide panel

  Item highlights and follows up to a story about how Washington state's Pesticide Incident Reporting and Tracking panel is going to be eliminated, ostensibly for budget reasons. But the council's annual budget is only $10,000. It was, however, a source of political heartburn for Gov. Chris Gregoire. [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 3:58pm EST
  

• As Obama energy secretary fears warming will end Cal farms, realists analyze what needs to be done

  In his first interview since his confirmation, Energy Secretary Steven Chu worries that global warming could end agriculture in his home state of California. Meanwhile, realists analyzing the kind of greenhouse gas emissions that will be necessary to avert disaster, and the picture does not look pretty. [...]
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  Posted: February 04, 2009, 3:16pm EST
  

• As Obama energy secretary fears warming will end Cal farms, realists analyze what needs to be done

  In his first interview since his confirmation, Energy Secretary Steven Chu worries that global warming could end agriculture in his home state of California. Meanwhile, realists analyzing the kind of greenhouse gas emissions that will be necessary to avert disaster, and the picture does not look pretty. [...]
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  Posted: February 04, 2009, 3:16pm EST
  

• Even small cities must move toward controlling stormwater, state ecology board rules

  After a groundbreaking ruling last year that required Seattle and a handful of other large governments around Puget Sound to control stormwater, a state hearings board today says small cities and counties will have to start working on the same thing. However, the ruling by the Washington Pollution Control Board [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2009, 3:18pm EST
  

• Even small cities must move toward controlling stormwater, state ecology board rules

  After a groundbreaking ruling last year that required Seattle and a handful of other large governments around Puget Sound to control stormwater, a state hearings board today says small cities and counties will have to start working on the same thing. However, the ruling by the Washington Pollution Control Board [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2009, 3:18pm EST
  

• In oil-rich Middle East, a Segway city rises in the desert

  Near Abu Dhabi, in the oil-rich Middle East, a city is planned that is supposed to be completely carbon-neutral. [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  

• Technology to solve global warming is here, Sierra Club president says

  Sierra Club President Carl Pope argues that the technology to solve global warming is here or well within our grasp. [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2009, 3:06pm EST
  

• Obama's climate change goals fall short, IPCC head says

  The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says President Obama's goals for combating global warming are far from ambitious enough to head off calamitous effects on humans. [...]
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  Posted: January 23, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• While some papers close or downsize, NYT creates a green team

  The New York Times may be in trouble financially, but that didn't stop the editors there from putting together what a lot of environmental reporters might consider a dream team from the green beat.' [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2009, 1:31pm EST
  

• Brown blotch on Obama's green Cabinet picks

  While President Obama won widespread acclaim from environmentalists for most of his Cabinet picks, the selection of Ken Salazar as Interior secretary is a brown blotch on a mostly-green record, environmentalists say. Salazar won praise from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank. [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 3:38pm EST
  

• Obama faces major climate challenge -- is he up to it?

  President Obama faces huge challenges in transforming America's energy use to a sustainable situation. And even some of the greens are saying he's just not ready for it. And after George Bush, the bar for looking good on the climate issue will be set pretty low. [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 2:41pm EST
  

• Federal Way schools require permission slips for kids to watch the inaugural

  Federal Way, the Seattle suburb that made national news by restricting schoolteachers' use of the Al Gore movie "An Inconvenient Truth," now is requiring that children get signed permission slips from their parents to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama. [...]
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  Posted: January 16, 2009, 3:34pm EST
  

• Contaminants widespread in Columbia River Basin, new report says

  A new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report says four contaminants -- mercury, DDT, PCBs and PDBEs -- are widespread across the Columbia River Basin, at levels that prompt the regional EPA administrator to call the new findings troubling. [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 2:47pm EST
  

• A mossback's view of the Texas coast

  Former P-I intern and Hearst Fellow Colin McDonald is treating readers of his current paper, the San Antonio Express News, to a blog following his kayak trip along the Texas coast. While Texas features some really long stretches of near-pristine coast, it also has some of the largest petrochemical complexes [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 1:31pm EST
  

• Maury gravel mine protest and sand lance

  The protest against the massive expansion of a sand and gravel mine brings up some interesting ways of looking at the world. For instance, is it possible that the demonstrators have done more harm to the sand lance than the mining company, at least so far? [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 5:27pm EST
  

• Dirty air fuels snowmelt

  A new study shows that soot from air pollution landing on snow in the Pacific Northwest causes the snow to melt faster. The effect is most pronounced in Washington, which has the most air pollution. [...]
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  Posted: January 13, 2009, 4:18pm EST
  

• Restoring the Everglades -- moving forward, or back?

  The just-concluded annual meeting of the Everglades Coalition included a keynote speaker's role for Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. But the people who have loved the Everglades longer than any other, the Miccosukee Indians, are not impressed. Crist halted construction of a massive pollution-treatment pond to get the money to buy [...]
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  Posted: January 12, 2009, 4:34pm EST
  

• Key mining case coming to Supreme Court

  On Monday the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a key mining case. If the mining industry prevails, environmentalists say, the case out of Alaska could allow widespread dumping of mining waste into lakes across the country. [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2009, 6:47pm EST
  

• Unusual Cloud Forest dance show in Seattle this week

  What sounds like an interesting concept in shows comes to Seattle this week: A tree canopy researcher and others present what's described as "part dance, part projected glimpses of remote rainforests, and part canopy science," based on a visit with researchers at the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica. [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2009, 1:31pm EST
  

• Farm animals' drugs showing up in food crops

  A new study shows that the antibiotics used commonly in livestock are showing up in food crops. Could this be leading to antibiotic resistance? [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  

• Algae could help scrub global-warming pollution

  While algae has been held out as a promising alternative fuel, University of Kentucky researchers are looking at another possibility: Employing pond scum to scrub global-warming pollution from industrial exhaust. [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2009, 2:06pm EST
  

• Jerry Brown sues Bush administration over endangered species changes

  California Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing the Bush administration over changes in the administration of the Endangered Species Act that environmentalists say turns the administration of the law on its head. [...]
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  Posted: January 06, 2009, 3:05pm EST
  

• Bush enviro legacy: Largest chunk of ocean ever protected

  President Bush is thinking legacy, of course, and on the enviro front he came through this week with the largest swath of ocean ever protected in one fell swoop, designating a series of islands in the Western Pacific Ocean as a national monument. Enviros didn't get everything they wanted, but [...]
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  Posted: January 06, 2009, 2:55pm EST
  

• Yum! New species discovered: Galapagos pink land iguana

  A new species has been discovered: The Galapagos pink land iguana. Charles Darwin missed it on his famous stop in the Galapagos. [...]
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  Posted: January 05, 2009, 5:01pm EST
  

• 2009 is the year of the gorilla, but what difference will it make?

  While the United Nations is calling 2009 the Year of the Gorilla, we get a peek at how poverty-stricken Rwandans are doing their part of help preserve the human-like creatures. But we also wonder how many have been killed by fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [...]
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  Posted: January 05, 2009, 3:05pm EST
  

• Toyota working on solar-powered car

  Toyota Motor Co. is quietly working on a solar-powered car. [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  

• 14 years later, wetlands destroyer agrees to pay the fine

  In a case that went to the Supreme Court in an effort to knock out federal protection for so-called "isolated" wetlands is finally settled. After 14 years, Michigan developer John Rapanos will pay a $150,000 penalty and spend and estimated $750,000 to make up for the 54 acres of wetlands [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2008, 1:31pm EST
  

• 52-mpg car of the future is here

  Who says Detroit can't make a worthwhile car? The new Ford Fusion hybrid got 52 mpg in mixed highway and city driving in one test. Detroit, of course, spent loads of federal cash developing ultra-economical cars in the 1990s. Finally it looks like it's starting to pay off. [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2008, 4:07pm EST
  

• Eco-friendly dry cleaning expands in Seattle

  A Seattle dry-cleaning firm is using a new eco-friendly method that employs carbon dioxide rather than the conventional percloroethylene, a powerful and cancer-promoting solvent. Blue Sky cleaners recently bought out a chain that was using perc. [...]
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  Posted: December 26, 2008, 3:57pm EST
  

• Obama sets quite a different course on climate change

  As President-elect Obama moved through his early choices for his new Cabinet, we heard some grumbling around Seattle because he failed to tap any Northwesterners and, said some political progressives, his picks could be described in a song called "Same As the Old (Democratic) Boss." But his latest choices, on [...]
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  Posted: December 22, 2008, 4:39pm EST
  

• Is dead the new green? How road kill could help solve global warming

  In Dateline Earth's never-ending quest for one hundred 1 percent solutions to global warming, we focus today on the idea of burning roadkill for energy. Yep, they're actually doing it – or at least, Michigan has passed a law allowing it. [...]
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  Posted: December 22, 2008, 2:48pm EST
  

• Judging enviro books (mostly) by their covers

  We offer up a list of enviro-themed books that you might want to consider for your holiday shopping list. [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2008, 1:32pm EST
  

• Stuff about stuff ... stuff you may not need

  This is a time of year that a lot of Americans are buying a lot of stuff. So it's a good time to introduce Dateline Earth readers to this video we've been meaning to mention: The Story of Stuff. [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2008, 1:32pm EST
  

• A lump of coal for this advertising campaign

  A coal-industry group promoting "clean coal" featured the "Clean Coal Carolers" online, with bastardized versions of Christmas carols with lyrics such as "Frosty, the coal man, is getting cleaner every day." After being ridiculed on several blogs, the ads were pulled. [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2008, 1:32pm EST
  

• Bush move on endangered species could have long-lasting effects

  The new Bush administration policy on the Endangered Species Act got a lot of news media attention because of its links to climate change and the plight of the polar bear. But a change that's getting less attention could have even further-reaching effects. It basically takes federal wildlife agencies out [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2008, 4:05pm EST
  

• Environmental Protection Agency's most-wanted criminals list is out

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a list of its most-wanted criminals, but the agency's criminal prosecutions have been reduced. [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2008, 3:51pm EST
  

• Bush looks to Pacific for environmental legacy

  In a man-bites-dog twist, President Bush is seeking to establish an environmental legacy by protecting an area of the Pacific Ocean three times the size of Mexico. But an environmentalist who's been pushing the concept hard says federal agencies are resisting the idea for parochial reasons. [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2008, 4:10pm EST
  

• Most supermarkets fail Greenpeace ratings for eco-friendly fish choices

  A new report by the environmental group Greenpeace says most U.S. supermarkets are offering seafood choices that are environmentally responsible. [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2008, 3:52pm EST
  

• Planet in Peril, sure. But so are enviro reporters

  Tonight CNN rolls out its splashy "Planet in Peril" news show with Anderson Cooper. But, in a move that's telling about what's happening to journalism overall, the network just quietly disbanded its day-in, day-out reporting unit for science, technology and the environment. [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2008, 2:39pm EST
  

• Maury mine opening hit with protesters

  As operations to massively expand a sand and gravel mine at the edge of the Maury Island Aquatic Reserve got underway this morning, dozens of protesters let the world know what they thought -- by land and by sea. [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2008, 2:53pm EST
  

• Bank of America pulls financing for mountaintop-removal mining

  Hard on the heels of the Bush administration making it easier to conduct the type of Appalachian coal mining that involves lopping off the entire tops of mountains, Bank of American announces it will no longer lend money to for that kind of operation. [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2008, 3:06pm EST
  

• Let's see, shall I jet to Seattle or... Zimbabwe? Or, how Ian Khama lost his way in Rain City

  A government minister from the African nation of Zimbabwe, which has been outspoken about the need for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down, forgos a chance to bring that message directly to Mugabe. Instead he heads to an environmental conference in Seattle. [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2008, 2:39pm EST
  

• Whales' songs drowned out by human noise

  Increasing commercial ocean traffic, along with increasing use of sonar by the military and private industry, is drowning out the songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate with each other, find their way through the oceans and locate mates. It's kind of like when you're at a cocktail party [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2008, 2:32pm EST
  

• Puget Sound restoration loses a bit of ground with voters

  A new Elway Poll says that support for restoring Puget Sound has ebbed among the region's residents. The news comes hard on the heels of the state's launch of an ambitious Puget Sound restoration campaign, with proponents seeking to guard funding in the penurious legislative session that starts in January. [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2008, 3:31pm EST
  

• How salmon, sea turtles find their way home

  A new study suggests that salmon and sea turtles find their way back to their birthplace to lay eggs using a sense of where that spot is on the Earth's magnetic field. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2008, 4:26pm EST
  

• Today's the day for the BIG Puget Sound rescue plan

  As the state unveils what's supposed to be a far-reaching plan to revitalized ecologically ailing Puget Sound, the leader of the agency spearheading the effort says the amount of new funding requested from the empty-pocketed state Legislature will be reduced. Meanwhile, at least one of the 14 scientists who spanked [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2008, 1:10pm EST
  

• How to cut your carbon footprint at home, room by room

  A new tool from King County allows consumers to figure out how to cut their carbon footprint, room by room, in their homes. Tips also show consumers other "green" ideas for their homes. [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2008, 2:56pm EST
  

• EPA to regulate formaldehyde in pressed wood

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiates rule-making to regulate formaldehyde in pressed-wood products. The action comes as Congress investigates a scandal over extremely high formaldehyde levels in mobile homes provided to hurricane victims by the federal government. [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2008, 1:38pm EST
  

• Going green on Black Friday -- it's electric!

  Just in time for this year's Black Friday, a new report by an environmental group compares the performance of video game consoles when it comes to sucking down energy even when they're not in use. Another report provides environmental ratings for garden-variety electronics. [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2008, 2:00pm EST
  

• Sutherland about to approve Maury mine?

  Environmentalists are hearing that outgoing Washington Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland is very close to approving the super-controversial sand and gravel mine at Maury Island. Meanwhile, citizens from Vashon Island have filed an ethics complaint against Sutherland because Glacier Northwest, the mining company, contributed $50,000 to an independent campaign group backing [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2008, 1:37pm EST
  

• More on Obama, climate and energy

  It wasn't just Dateline Earth imagining that President-elect Barack Obama is sounding more and more like he really wants to tackle climate change. An item in Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media rounds up various observers' observations on the point. [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2008, 12:30pm EST
  

• Sutherland about to approve Maury mine?

  Environmentalists are hearing that outgoing Washington Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland is very close to approving the super-controversial sand and gravel mine at Maury Island. Meanwhile, citizens from Vashon Island have filed an ethics complaint against Sutherland because Glacier Northwest, the mining company, contributed $50,000 to an independent campaign group backing [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2008, 12:05pm EST
  

• Tofurky Tuesday and the Mediterranean diet

  As Turkey Day approaches, consider reducing your contribution to global warming by going meatless one day a week, says a campaign by the Humane Society of the United States and the Hood River, Ore.-based maker of Tofurky. Along the same lines, the Mediterranean food pyramid has been revamped. [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 2:53pm EST
  

• Obama pushes alternative energy as a jobs issue

  In his news conference to announce his economic team today, President-elect Barack Obama once again linked economic recovery to a revived economy. What a different tune this president will be singing! [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2008, 3:35pm EST
  

• Scientists attack Puget Sound rescue plan

  A group of scientists who are some of the most knowledgeable in the Puget Sound region on how stormwater affects the Sound are saying the state's about-to-be-adopted "action agenda" won't get the job done in restoring Washington's unique inland waterway. And they're saying it in pretty strong language. [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2008, 4:58pm EST
  

• Tracking the Bush administration's midnight rule-makings

  ProPublica, the non-profit journalism site dedicated to investigative journalism, has launched a new "midnight rules watch" attempting to track the Bush administration's late-term changes in regulations. Many of the changes are targeted at environmental rules. In The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert puts the subject of late-term rule-makings in perspective. Clinton, [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2008, 2:48pm EST
  

• New environmental cast in D.C. signaled by election today of Waxman, Stevens' defeat

  The election of Henry Waxman as Energy & Commerce chair in the house today and the defeat of felon Ted Stevens as an Alaskan senator portends big changes in energy and climate debates in the upcoming Congress, some think. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2008, 3:49pm EST
  

• Navy agrees to Puget Sound explosives limits

  The Navy has agreed to limits on its explosives training in Puget Sound. It took the action in the face of a lawsuit by environmentalists, but the action is only effective temporarily. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2008, 2:55pm EST