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The House majority wants to gut environmental protections

  By Ed Perry On Feb. 25, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing budget resolution to keep the government operating and cut spending. But most people didn’t notice that it also was intended to gut environmental agencies and regulations that have protected our air, water and land for more than 40 years. The [...]

How to talk to a climate change skeptic

Most serial climate change deniers frame the debate (as if there was one) in terms of whether the climate is changing,  whether it’s just a natural process, or if taking action will break us economically. But there is another way to look at it.  What is the risk if we take action and climate change [...]

Gulf Coast Catastrophe – Congress Should Blame Itself

The recent oilrig explosion off the Louisiana coast, which claimed 11 lives and continues to spill 200,000 gallons of oil daily into the Gulf of Mexico, is jeopardizing not only the wildlife habitats and coastlines throughout the region, but also putting our fragile economy in great peril. While officials from British Petroleum and government authorities [...]

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