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The New Santa Barbara Oil Spill Is a Reminder of How Little Weve Learned
The latest accident highlights the inherent risks of transporting oil through sensitive environments. For Santa Barbara residents, the recurring scene involving blackened beaches, slick-sheened waters…
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Oil spreads along California coast after pipeline rupture
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 1969, one of the nation’s largest oil spills occurred off the coast of Santa Barbara and helped galvanize the modern environmental movement. Today, an oil spill from a ruptur…
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Wall Street Journal casts doubt on Clintons role in Keystone XL
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of State, under then Secretary Clinton, blocked the release of politically sensitive records from Freedom of Information A…
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Pollinator Politics: Environmentalists Criticize Obama Plan To Save Bees
The buzz around bees has been bad lately. As we’ve reported, beekeepers say they lost 42 percent of honeybee colonies last summer. And it seems that fixing what ails bees is no simple task. Ove…
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White House makes bid to save honeybees but ignores toxic pesticides
Plan makes millions of acres of federal land more bee-friendly but does not ban the use of neonicotinoids which research shows are closely linked to bee life loss The White House has announced an ambi…
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Chemo for the Planet
What’s the best way to reduce the chances of climate change wreaking havoc on Earth? The most obvious answer — one we’ve known for years now — is to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide we’re…
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Court rejects State Department foot dragging over Clinton e-mails
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal judge has rejected the U.S. Department of State’s request to delay release of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal emails. The court found that the S…
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U.S. Plan to Help Bees Focuses on More Land
The U.S. government will make federal lands more friendly to bees, monarch butterflies and other pollinators, according to a White House action plan to take action to help bees, released today. Stoppi…
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Meat industry has a cow over US dietary guidelines
The US meat industry is fighting a call for more plant-based diets and a potential government policy shift on dietary guidelines A nationwide food fight is heating up after the US government accepted…
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Hillary Clintons State Department Staff Kept Tight Rein on Records
When Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, her staff scrutinized politically sensitive documents requested under public-records law and sometimes blocked their release, according to people with dire…