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State Of The Air 2013: American Lung Association Report Reveals America's Most Polluted Cities

Air quality continues to improve across the United States, but over 40 percent of Americans live in counties with unhealthy levels of particle or ozone pollution. 


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Sunday Dialogue: Gas Drilling and Our Energy Future

Readers discuss whether natural gas from shale is a promising resource or a misguided risk.


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In China, Breathing Becomes a Childhood Risk

The boy’s chronic cough and stuffy nose began last year at the age of 3. 


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EPA criticizes environmental review of Keystone XL pipeline

The agency responds to the State Department's draft report, which concluded the project would have a minimal impact.


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Mikhail Gorbachev Admits Environmental Frustrations With International Policy

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev painted a dim picture of the world's environmental progress on Thursday, two decades after he and a former Swiss lawmaker founded Green Cross International.


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DWP watchdog warns high cost comes with L.A.'s coal-free plan

Weeks after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa celebrated his plan to move the city off of coal-fired energy, a city watchdog has attached a giant price tag to the initiative.


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China Must Exploit Its Shale Gas

If the Senate confirms the nomination of the M.I.T. scientist Ernest J. Moniz as the next energy secretary, as expected, he must use his new position to consider the energy situation not only in the United States, but in China as well.


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Environmental Questions Take Back Seat at Hearing for E.P.A. Nominee

Most of the biggest challenges facing the Environmental Protection Agency — climate change, major new regulations on power plant emissions, biofuels production and enforcement of clean air and water laws — were virtually absent from Thursday’s confirmation hearing for President Obama’s nominee to head the agency, Gina McCarthy.


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The Fossil Fuel Resistance

It got so hot in Australia in January that the weather service had to add two new colors to its charts. 


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Santa Monica Sustainability Bill of Rights Becomes the Law

Last evening, on April 9, 2013, our Santa Monica City Council voted for final passage of our Sustainability Bill of Rights Ordinance: 7 - 0!


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