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California is Setting the Standards: A Continuing Series on the California Energy Commission Process 27 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
Meg Waltner, Energy Efficiency Advocate, San Francisco, CA Commercial clothes dryer standards: Savings are heating up Whether washing your clothes at the laundromat, in a dorm or apartment building,...
The future of our food system depends on healthy soils--and policies that support soil stewardship 27 Aug 2013 | 05:49 am
Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Healthy soils are the foundation of a healthy food system. These soils teem with life: earthworms create water channels as the burrow through the soil, allowing...
Soil Matters: How the Federal Crop Insurance Program can encourage farming methods to build soil health and resilience against extreme weather 27 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
Claire O'Connor, Policy Analyst, Santa Monica In 2012, farmers in my home state of Nebraska lost $1.5 billion worth of crops. $177 million of that was just due to heat. $35 million due to hot wind. ...
Building a Drought-Proof Farm 27 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am
Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City At Brown’s Ranch, just east of Bismarck, North Dakota, they’ve been going on 70 days with less than half an inch of rain. Yet Gabe Brown, the owner of ...
Robert S. Pindyck in his own words (and yes, he read and agreed with this blog) 27 Aug 2013 | 01:57 am
Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, DC "It is sad to see how much my article is being misquoted, misinterpreted, and misused." Robert S. Pindyck, personal emai...
Latin America Green News: renewables fund for Chile, marine monitoring in Costa Rica, forest loss in Mexico 26 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. August 19-2...
FDA green washing antibiotic reductions 26 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Avinash Kar, Staff Attorney, San Francisco This guest post is by Steve Roach, Senior Analyst at Keep Antibiotics Working. Keep Antibiotic Working is a coalition of groups, including NRDC, that is ded...
Health Problems Still Plague Arkansas Residents Near ExxonMobil Tar Sands Spill 26 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC It’s been a warm, rain-soaked summer in the small lakeside community of Mayflower, a sleepy residential town north of Little Rock famous its bl...
The Plight of the Red Knot 26 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC Boom! At the sound of the canon, we rose frantically from our hiding places and started sprinting toward the water’s edge where we had set our net ho...
One Million ask the BLM to Protect Public Lands from Fracking 26 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
Matthew McFeeley, Attorney, Washington, D.C. Friday marked the final day to comment on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rules to govern fracking on public lands. And as the comments closed, ...
